A few years ago, I started making my own sandwich bread on a biweekly basis. Good bread is really expensive here in Toronto (like at Cobs Bread), and cheap bread is really bad! And cheap bread is not even that cheap. As we are always looking to cut costs, I decided to bake my own […]
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Tea Cakes and Honey Butter
These hot, yeasted tea cakes are perfectly matched to luscious honey butter. Eating them makes me feel like a pioneer woman or something! This recipe uses a yeasted batter, but it only needs to rise for one hour. You can easily whip up these tea cakes and have them ready at teatime; just serve them instead of […]
Toronto Eats: Doughnuts at Glory Hole
Glory Hole is the first Toronto bakery (that we are aware of) that started serving gourmet doughnuts back in August 2012. The bakery is decorated Canadiana-style: there is an upside-down canoe suspended over the counter, which looks like a stacked woodpile. It seems like a more delicious take on the favourite Canadian coffee shop Tim Hortons. Ashley […]