baking – Page 2 – Ruth E. Hendricks

My First Loaf of Sourdough

A friend at exercise class gave me sourdough starter and a basic recipe. I learned why she advised don’t use tap water. Filtered or Spring water. The chlorine in the city water can kill the yeast (or at least slow it down.)

I’ve been feeding the starter refrigerating it when I’d leave town, take it back out and feed it again and was planning to bake sourdough bread.

Today was the day. I used a ln enameled cast iron bread baker that Jen S and I bought from Aldi last year.

I took a book out of the library through the Libby App online and renewed it tonight.

This video was a good resource

August 15, 2025 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: baking, bread, food, friendship, kitchen, photography, postaday, sourdough, starter 29 Comments

Easier than Baking a Cheesecake

If you like cheesecake you will like this simple recipe.

Recipe from Ann Walling, my dad’s church secretary at St.Paul’s Morris Plains NJ 1960-1970

Beat until smooth

1 pound cream cheese room temp

3/4 C sugar

3 eggs

1 t almond extract

Bake in a buttered pie plate at 350 until done (knife in Center comes clean) about 45 min

Cool 8 minutes -center will sink

add topping

Mix and pour mixture into center indentation

1 C sour cream

3 T sugar

1 t vanilla

Return to oven for 10 minutes

June 9, 2025June 10, 2025 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: baking, dessert cream cheese, photography, pie, postaday, recipe 11 Comments

Chocolate Cloud Cake

A flourless chocolate cake.

Here is the recipe

June 1, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: baking, chocolate, cloud cake, food, kitchen, photography, postaday, Springform pan 12 Comments

Winter Baking

Easy Cinnamon Rolls from scratch recipe

Need to keep practicing my baking skills.

February 16, 2025 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: baking, cinnamon rolls, dough, food, kitchen, photography, postaday, recipe, yeast 21 Comments

Grandmother’s Recipe Box

My paternal grandmother, Mary Alta Hendricks’ recipe box. No fewer than five recipes for rolls. Lots of baking cakes. There are Crisp Pickle Chips, a few prize winners clipped from a newspaper one from 1950. I’ve posted some before but I like to touch and read them, find her friends’ names in pencil- Lucille Roberts, Ruth Kiest, Vesta.

Four years ago I posted about my friend Kristin’s husband Rick baking bread and showed her recipe box with a poem in the lid.

Today I’m sharing more of the contents as my friend Vincie suggested recipe cards after a post a couple of months asking if you still use cookbooks

*The faster they boil the nicer they are*

I plan to bake the Orange Cake.

February 15, 2025 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: baking, cooking, family, grandmother, handwritten recipes, kitchen, photography, postaday, Recipe box, recipe cards, recipes, yeast rolls 20 Comments

Split Second Cookies

My friend Jen gave me a lovely large jar of Bonne Maman jam which was perfect for the Split Second Cookies Recipe.

This morning Jen came over and we had coffee and eggs. I gave her a couple of the jam filled logs wrapped in foil. Apricot and Four Fruit Preserves were the two flavors I used.

After you bake the cookie all at once, when they are cool you slice them.

They are a dense buttery shortbread with the fruit jam in the middle.

January 12, 2025 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: baking, Bonne Maman, cookies, food, friendship, jam, photography, postaday, recipe, split second cookies 10 Comments

Baked by a Friend

What a lovely gift I received today. A homemade almond cake, baked by a dear friend.

Look at the handmade bird ornament with sparkly sequins all hand stitched –

I love almonds and almond cake.

But I need to share with some company so good thing my sister is coming soon.

Thank you Tookie❤️

December 20, 2024 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: almond cake, baking, cake, friendship, ornament, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, sequins 16 Comments

Holiday Cakes in a Bakery Window

**Lincoln Bakery** since 1945 in Bellevue PA

December 18, 2024 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: bakery, baking, cake, food, gingerbread man, Holiday Cake, Lincoln Bakery, photography, postaday, reindeer 4 Comments

Original Plum Torte in NYC

Original Plum Torte Recipe by Marian Burros debuted in 1983. It’s an annual ritual as summer comes to a close and the Italian Plums are perfection. You need twelve, cut in half.

After an almost nine hour train ride from Pittsburgh, we arrived in NYC just before five and when we got to Mary’s she had all the ingredients prepared. Prema placed the plums on top of the batter. sprinkled the cinnamon sugar on top.