For Those About to Bake

I encourage you

I’m now squarely in my “bake between breaks” era, which thanks to this year’s funky calendar, lasts about three weeks. Despite being squarely in this window, I have not yet baked a single damn thing. [The weekend awaits.]

Anyway. During this period, at some point, when I gather my strength, I will prepare approximately eight batches of yeasted dough, maybe more if I’m really feeling it, and shape them into cinnamon rolls for the winter holidays.

There is much more to the story behind why I make these and how I shop for the ingredients, and I could wax on and on about how these rolls got me over a fear of baking with yeast and how great they smell while they’re baking and how lovely they are to have on Solstice morning or Xmess Day or New Year’s Day all that, but I’m going to direct you, instead, right now, to the recipe so you can ignore any storytelling I might engage in and get straight to baking.

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THE RECIPE ¹

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LOTSA (Lisa’s Open Tabs, Saved Aggressively)

I’m Slow Retiring my Twitter/X accounts. You can find me on Bluesky at the same handle: bckyrdndstry

This delightful thread on the r/frugal subreddit reads like an epic gratitude list that is heavily weighted toward electric towel warmers

I have cinnamon rolls to bake, but I think I promised to bake this little cake about a month ago - ope

One of my major influences, Dan Carmody, is retiring from running Detroit Eastern Market

Speaking of markets, locals: I return to my far mar roots on Saturday, December 14 as the C-U Winter Market’s “Market Buddy”

Great, though not especially uplifting, thinking/writing from Rosie Spinks about the tension between There and Here

Backyard Industry Wayback Machine: December 6, 2011
A very Urbana alternative to bagging leaves in late fall/early winter

1. For your reference/easy sharing: The recipe lives in the main navigation menu for this newsletter, and always will.