The bread is rising as I speak– no, write. I was having what Kim and I call a banana emergency. I don’t know how I missed the cardamom pods and malt extract in Nicola Graimes’ recipe. I wouldn’t know where to shop for them anyway so substituted agave nectar and allspice. We will see how that goes. It is not a sweet bread. It has disturbingly little sugar. These darn vegans, never enough sugar or salt. I am hoping it will be good for toasting for breakfast. Is there a bad homemade bread?
The cookies are from Veganomicon, Fig Smushed Almond Anise. My friend Kim Russert makes and decorates borracho cookies at the holidays, with rum-soaked anise seeds. They are a lot like shortbread, deceptively plain, and frankly it is not possible to stop eating them until they are gone. I attempted them and they just weren’t as good. So every so often I attempt something with anise in hopes of duplicating the can’t stop eating thing. I had almonds I needed to use… short of simply flying across country to make them with her, this is the best I can do.
I will let you know how it goes.
kimwilsonowen said,
September 30, 2009 @ 7:19 pm
Comment 1: Bread. No, there is no such thing as bad homemade bread. Even if I didn’t use two of the ingredients called for. It is delicious slathered with earth balance buttery spread. MMM!