Category: Breads

LAB NOTES: Mee Mee’s Real Southern Cornbread Veganised

     Hello All,Wayne AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.Recently, I made a batch of chili. I was searching for a good Southern style cornbread recipe. A friend, Ms. Lia was kind enough to share her Grandmother’s recipe with me.I’ve taken it and veganised it. I’ll show the original and...

LAB NOTES: SPOILER ALERT!!

Hello everyone,Wayne AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.I’ve been inspired by Mary over at the “Mary’s Test Kitchen” YouTube channel.She has a video series called “Will It Tofu” ( I HIGHLY recommend checking it out!! ).Well, that got me to thinking about a possible series of blog posts that are...

LAB NOTES: Homemade Hoagie Rolls

Hello All,Wayne AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.Over Labor Day weekend I decided to take a swing at making Seitan sausages.( SPOILER ALERT: UPCOMING POST!! )So, to go along with the sausages. I need to make Hoagie rolls so I can take some of these bad boys to work for...

LAB NOTES: Homemade Oat Flour Sandwich Bread

Hello all,Wayne, AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.I recently decided to jump back into baking. I found this video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_OkBy9REAI on John Kirkwood’s YouTube channel.John is a retired cook from England and has tonnes of interesting videos.Here’s the link to the written recipe.https://profoodhomemade.com/two-hour-loaf/However, I got to wondering if I could tweak this a bit...

LAB NOTES: Homemade Sandwich bread AKA The Two Hour Loaf.

     Hello all,Wayne, AKA the Mad Food Scientist here.I decided to jump back into baking my own bread again. I found this video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_OkBy9REAI on John Kirkwood’s YouTube channel.John is a retired cook from the North of England and has tonnes of interesting videos.Here’s the link to the written recipe.https://profoodhomemade.com/two-hour-loaf/ ORIGINAL: 450g / 16oz...

LAB NOTES: Raisin Irish Soda Bread

Hello everyone, Wayne the Mad Food Scientist here.This time out, I’m making Raisin Irish Soda Bread. I was chatting about my previous loaf of Irish Soda Bread with Mick from the U.K and he suggested taking dried fruit and soaking it in tea, then adding the rehydrated fruit into...

LAB NOTES: Irish Soda Bread

Hello everyone, Wayne the Mad Food Scientist here, I’m making Irish Soda Bread today as part of other experiments. In this case vegan fried “egg” with runny “yolk” and vegan bacon. Those experiments will be covered in upcoming posts. I chose Irish Soda Bread today cos it’s quick and...