My husband and I came over to my parent’s house to help them dig out from the snow. While there, my mom requested that I make a recipe for Finnish cardamom bread that she found in a magazine. My mom doesn’t have a bread machine so I made the bread entirely by hand.
The recipe makes a beautiful slightly sweet loaf, but it did not have as much cardamom flavor as I expected. In fact, I could barely taste the cardamom at all.
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Last week I made dulce de leche from sweetened condensed milk for the first time. I’ve always been afraid of boiling the can and having it explode all over my kitchen so I used the double boiler method to be safe.
It turned out great and since I now had an abundance of dulce de leche in the fridge, I decided to make Dorie Greenspan’s Dulce De Leche Duos from her book, Baking: From My Home to Yours. I can’t recommend this cook enough.
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