Baking

Monday Q&A | What is “doubled in size”? Plus, clothing for older kids.

February 8, 2010

Every Monday, I answer a few of the questions that my readers send me. If you have a question you’d like me to answer in a future Q&A post, just leave me a comment here or email me (thefrugalgirl [at] gmail [dot] com) and put Q&A in the subject line. I look forward to hearing [...]

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Wednesday Baking | Christmas Cookies

December 23, 2009

Yesterday, the kids and I baked cookies (with cookie cutters that were bought for pennies in Januarys past). This was always one of my favorite Christmas activities when I was young, and my kids are like me in that regard. They enjoy the whole process from cutting the cookies out…. to decorating. They’re all quite [...]

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Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way

November 17, 2009

(Apologies for my blog’s disappearance yesterday. For a couple of hours, my server was offline because of a network outage. I did publish a Q&A post before it went out, though, so if you missed it yesterday, just scroll down.) Last week, on a rainy, rainy day, I was just about to start making the [...]

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How to Store Flour

November 7, 2009

A lot of you have been wondering lately how I store my flour. Someone else asked that a while back, and I answered in a Monday Q&A post. I don’t do anything fancy, because I’ve never had problems with bugs and weevils, but if you still want to see my method, go check out my [...]

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Dear Safeway,

November 4, 2009

Could you please have a flour sale soon? Because this is the very last Gold Medal flour bag from my Christmas and Easter stock-ups at your store, and my flour stash is in desperate need of replenishing. I was thinking something along the lines of the $.99/5 lb sale you had last year would be [...]

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Wednesday Baking-Braided Loaves

September 2, 2009

This recipe is from a newer Fleischmann’s Yeast cookbook that I got for free somehow a number of years ago. Actually, it was a lot of years ago, as I know I had this for a while before I got married (I was the sort of weird teenager who sends away for yeast baking freebies!), [...]