Sweet Bakings--A Few Re-peerings

Last month, I blogged about sweet bakings, recipe undertakings spread over 13 years of blogging. Recipes I spotted on the web inspired me to experiment, not merely replicate. i came up with 28 cooky recipes and 19 cake and cake-ish recipes. ... Maybe surprisingly, I'd done several of the recipes seldom since blogging about them. A few never-agains are because a particular ingredient, usually a cake mix, is either no longer available, formulation is different, or weight is different (mostly less). Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Grapes-to-Raisins Musings

I rarely eat raisins. ... I'd always thought of them as dehydrated and wrinkled grapes. I had bought a 12-ounce box of Sun-Maid raisins .... The image shows green grapes and dark raisins. To my puzzlement, the list of ingredients was "raisins". Hmm, I'd have thought "grapes". Sunmaid.com declares, "Made with nothing but grapes and California sunshine, ...". Read the entire article and comment there, please.