No schmaltz, but I was dipping it in room-temp bacon grease (I am my mother's son, after all).
Today's Bread (2019-2022)
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JAS_OH1
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You don't like pumpernickel? I don't like the kind with caraway seeds and I don't like any other rye breads, but I like pumpernickel bread.
I'm just doing a search trying to find a good recipe for pumpernickel and all of them call for molasses thus far, which I am not fond of either. I suppose a small amount would be fine, but I hate buying a container of molasses to just use a tbsp. and then have it sit in my cupboard for a year (because I only use pumpernickel for one specific thing, which is a party dip using Knorr Vegetable Soup Mix and sour cream). And some pumpernickel bread recipes call for the caraway seeds, which I am definitely not going to add in.
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There are a lot of subs for molasses. I use honey, sorghum, molasses, and maple syrup pretty much interchangeably, but brown sugar is a good substitute, as is dark Karo syrup.
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I do like the dark color in the pumpernickel bread I buy at the store, but hoping the cocoa powder and coffee I found in one recipe to be enough to do that. There are just so many variations. I have light brown sugar on hand and honey, but that's not going to give me a very dark color. I have never used sorghum, don't know what it looks like, and don't have any idea what else I would use it for.
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I use it anywhere I'd use maple syrup, like pancakes and waffles, and I also use it in breads, in place of sugar. I've even used it in pizza dough, but my favorite thing is to mix it with a big pat of butter and use it as a spread on buttermilk biscuits.
I can't get it at the grocery store, but it's a common item at all the farmers markets around here.
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I could Google it, but what is it made of? I know it's an old fashioned thing, but I can't think of what it's used in.
It's sort of like sugar cane. It's pressed from cane.
I'll add that of all those syrup sweeteners, sorghum is by far my favorite. It's not even close.
Sorghum is a plant. It is grown in Texas for animal feed, but it is also used for sorghum flour, and sorghum syrup.
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Maybe the winner of a future recipe challenge could choose sorghum.
What Is Sorghum? | Meet Nature's Super Grain
What Is Sorghum? | Meet Nature's Super Grain
In the fields of North Texas, sorghum plants look like corn stalks, but shorter. This is the time of year I usually see it, but I haven't noticed any lately, but I haven't really looked for it.
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Its impossible to find here except from specialist on-line sources (the flour and the seeds). I can't find sorgum syrup at all.
That does it. I know our next international trip, once we're comfy doing that, will include England. I'm making a list of things that are easy to find here but hard for you, and I'm bringing them with me, and when I get there, I'm going to knock a Waitrose delivery guy on the head, steal his coveralls and delivery van, and bring you some goodies. So far, I'm thinking tinned hominy (white and yellow) and now sorghum.
Yeah, I probably watched too many Avengers TV episodes as a kid (the Steed and Peel variety, not Captain America and Iron Man).
JAS_OH1
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Ugh at hominy. She doesn't even care for regular corn, and hominy is...weird tasting.
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