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Since today marks the official close of Examiner's Info 101 series, it seems appropriate to conclude my Baking 101series with, so to speak, a piece on...
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The simplicity of basic ingredients, the joy (and frustration) of learning and even mastering necessary techniques; and what was the "baking...
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There are four basic types of cakes. Butter cakes are those made with butter or some kind of fat -- shortening, vegetable oil, margarine. These are...
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Making a good pie crust at home is difficult but the technique can be mastered with practice. A basic recipe for a 2-crust pie, from my most-consulted...
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This post was edited and updated on Sept. 2, 2009. White, refined sugar was not known in Europe until after Crusaders brought it back from the middle...
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It seems right, on this anniversary of the birth of Napoleon, to think about a recipe for napoleons, the pastry cookie. But to attempt them, you first...
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Cookbooks old and new assure the reader that there is nothing difficult about baking, there are just rules that have to be followed to give success....
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It seems white, all purpose flour has gotten a bad rap ever since the 1970s, when consumers became more health conscious than budget conscious in the...
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Baking soda or bicarbonate of soda has long been used to quickly leaven cakes and cookies -- it was first factory produced in the 1840s. But it must...
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Home bakers (and cooks) use it all the time, but what exactly is chocolate? And what's the difference between ordinary chocolate and white chocolate?...
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- Beverly Bakery (10528 S. Western)
- Swedish Bakery (5348 N. Clark)
- Weber's Bakery (7055 W. Archer)
- Delightful Pastries (5927 W. Lawrence Ave.)
- Bombon Cafe (1508 W. 18th St.)
- Eli's Cheesecake World (6701 W. Forest Preserve Dr.)
- Sweet Mandy B's (1208 W. Webster)
- Middle East Bakery and Grocery (1512 W. Foster)
- Specialty's Cafe and Bakery (191 N. Wacker)
- Molly's Cupcakes (2536 N. Clark St.)
- Red Hen Bread (500 W. Diversey Pkwy.)
- Sweet Honeybee Bakery (1918 W. Montrose)
- Letizia's Natural Bakery (2144 W. Division)
- Medici Bakery (1327 E. 57th St.)
- Roeser's Bakery (3216 W. North Ave.)
- Alliance Bakery (1736 W. Division)
- Dinkel's Bakery (3329 N. Lincoln)
- Bittersweet Bakery (1114 W. Belmont)
- Cafe Selmarie (4729 N. Lincoln)
- Lutz Cafe and Pastry Shop (2458 W. Montrose)
- Ferrara Bakery (2210 W. Taylor St.)
- Wolf's Bakery (3241 W. 95th St., Evergreen Park)
- Calumet Bakery (18349 Torrence Ave., Lansing)
- Creative Cakes (16649 Oak Park Ave., Unit F, Tinley Park)
- Fleckenstein's Bakery (19225 S. Lagrange, Mokena)
- Angelica's Bakery (17535 Kedzie, Hazel Crest)
- Labriola Bakery (5324 W. 123rd Pl., Alsip)
- Nielsen's Bakery (2053 Ridge Rd., Homewood)
- Naple's Bakery (3705 W. 95th St., Evergreen Park)
- Tuzik's 95th Bakery (4955 W. 95th St., Oak Lawn)
- Deerfield's Bakery (813 Waukegan Rd., Deerfield)
- Jarosch Bakery (35 Arlington Hts. Rd., Elk Grove Village)
- Three Tarts Bakery (301 S. Happ Rd., Northfield)
- Froggy's French Cafe (306 Green Bay Rd, Highwood)
- Bennison's Bakery (1000 Davis St., Evanston)
- The Bent Fork (335 Waukegan Ave., Highwood)
- Sweet Dreams Organic Bakery and Cafe (1107 Waukegan Rd., Glenview)
- Schlegl's Bakery and Cafe (3915 Touhy, Lincolnwood)
- Toni Marie's Sweets and Savories (51 S. Washington, Hinsdale)
- Herb's Bakery (1020 Larkin Ave., Elgin)
- Gerhard's (720 N. Western, Lake Forest)
- The Daring Kitchen
- Cream Puffs in Venice
- At First Glass
- 101 Cookbooks
- David Lebovitz
- Sweet Freak (best Paris and New York bakeries)
- Simply Recipes
- Dessert First
- Orangette
- Tea and Cookies
- Chez Pim
- Chocolate & Zucchini
- Baker's Banter
- Real Baking with Rose
- Blue Kitchen
- Dorie Greenspan
- An Obsession with Food and Wine
- A Year in Bread
- Gluten free baking
- Land O'Lakes gluten free baking
- Gluten free by the Bay (kosher, also)
- Karina's Kitchen
- Gluten free blog
- Fresh Ginger
- Gluten free gobsmacked
- Gluten free girl
- Ginger lemon girl
- Gluten a go go
- Bob's Red Mill flours
- Tom Sawyer gluten free flour
- Gluten free travel
- University of Chicago celiac disease center
