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Jo B.
 
Home Town: Nevada, USA
Living In: Hamburg, Germany
Member Since: Oct. 2005
Cooking Level: Intermediate
Cooking Interests: Baking, Stir Frying, Slow Cooking, Asian, Mexican, Indian, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Healthy, Dessert, Quick & Easy
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Recipe Reviews 9 reviews
Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread
Absolutely delicious as is and easily customizable! This recipe is great because you will get a fabulous pumpkin bread if you follow it to the letter, and it's very forgiving if you prefer to just eyeball things. As long as you keep your liquid/dry ratios in order, you can easily sub in brown sugar, whole grain flour, butter, apple sauce, or any other trade out and it still tastes great and rises well. I *very* generously greased my baking tin with margarine and baked it at 180c for the first twenty minutes, then reduced to 165c for the remaining time. The result was lovely, sweet-crisp outsides with moist and tender insides.

3 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Dec. 31, 2011
Soft Christmas Cookies
These keep their form beautifully, bake well, and are easy to make. However, they are a bit bland and tend to be hard - not crisp, hard. I will make these any time that it is important that the cookies look exactly the way I want, but for regular round sugar cookies, this is not it.

3 users found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Dec. 11, 2011
Buttermilk Oatmeal Muffins
The recipe as it is makes muffins with a lovely texture, and it is also quite easy. The taste, however, is a bit bland. I would be sure to add spices, dried fruit, jam, nuts, or some other good. Good basis, but only a perfect finished recipe gets five stars from me! My changes: I added vanilla, cinnamon, clove, ginger, nutmeg, and walnuts. I also used some grated apple, but that was just to cut down on fat. The oil ratio is absolutely fine here.

1 user found this review helpful
Reviewed On: Apr. 17, 2011
 
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