Okay, the breadsticks didn’t work out so well – especially after a couple of days in the bag.
This morning I looked at some little boxes of raisins BB sent me last month, then went to my copy of Joy of Cooking for a raisin bread recipe.
Unlike my usual half-assed efforts at something different, this was an entirely unfamiliar bread recipe which I followed very carefully, leading to such internal dialogue as “No, you idiot. A quarter cup, not a quarter teaspoon.” Because I normally never measure anything anymore.
I kind of messed up the topping, because I made an assumption before turning the page and learning that I’d missed like two paragraphs. But except for that it seemed to come out okay…
Oh, yeah.
That worked.
I’m kind of widening out this winter. At least I’m doing it on my own cooking.
Tobie helped.
That would make some great toast.
Raisins had for dogs
Yeah no raisins or grapes for doggie. Did not know this and my first terrier loved grapes, did not seem to do much harm, but then the vet said it was no-no.
Yummmmm…
Yum!
Measure? We don’ got no measures! We don’ need no stinkin’ measures! Unless it’s something new and critical.
I see Tobie assumed the Standard Dog Assistance Position. Good Dog!
You don’t have to go through all the hassle of rolling up the bread dough. Just throw the raisins into it with all the rest of the ingredients, and they come out evenly distributed.
Heretic! If it doesn’t fall apart on its seams while you’re trying to eat it toasted with butter, it’s not proper cinnamon raison bread.
Away with him to the stake!
Grapes are bad for dogs?
Wow, the things you learn here – I never knew. I knew about chocolate being a no-no, but not grapes (and by extension, raisins).
Funny thing is, one dog that lived with me used to pick low-hanging bunches of grapes off our vines, and happily (and messily) munched them, stalks and all. It never seemed to faze him at all.
Good news! In medieval times the bakers discovered their raisin bread went bad more slowly than regular bread. Chemistry has since found it is ‘calcium proprionate, monoglycerides, sulfate or monocalcium phosphate’ added to retard spoilage. Enjoy longer.
Grapes are bad for dogs in the same way that vegan diets are bad for humans. Some people are fanatics about it.
And…sorry for the previous heresy. I didn’t realize there was a layer cinnamon/sugar in it. I should have looked at the first picture more closely. Of course you have to roll it up to do that!
Oh my – that looks awesome. Do you use egg wash?
The egg wash is the overlooked element I alluded to. Next time.
I have found that the trick of increasing the humidity in the oven by throwing a cup of water in the bottom (or in a pan) really does work to give a good crust. The increased water content in the air transfers more heat directly to the surface. Egg washes are okay, but I don’t use them anymore.
I don’t remember what it is, specifically, about grapes. Onions likewise. But to all who’ve commented on it, it’s definitely real – grapes and onions are bad for dogs, or at least, that’s the current “real truth” circulating about them. It isn’t because dogs are carnivorous, either, you can feed dogs berries and stuff like that without hurting them. It’s something specific about grapes (and onions).
Goober:
I did some research, and it appears that nobody knows what the mechanism is, but SOMETHING in grapes causes kidney failure in dogs.
As to onions, that is another one of which that I wasn’t aware.
Strangely that same dog that ate the grape bunches would spit out all the (tiny) onion pieces every time we fed him the left-over bolognese. He ate everything else, and left a pile of diced onion in the middle of his bowl.
More evidence that the dog was smarter than me.
For what it’s worth, this site (https://www.gradyvet.com/blog/mystery-solved-why-grapes-are-toxic-to-dogs/) claims that the culprit is Tartaric Acid in the grapes.
No raisins or grapes for dogs. Ever.