I worked yesterday rather than today due to a colleague’s illness.  I had wanted to get some baking done so with this change I had to do it post-call, when I am tired.  But I also picked one of the hotter days of the year to do this.  So it got warm.  I did one recipe at a time so I could concentrate due to the sleep deprivation.

I started with my grandfather’s Malted Toast Bread recipe.  You can tell he was an engineer with the decimal points

I had to find some barley malt first.  He had suggested a brew store so I went to Northwest Brewing Supply, and they milled some for me.

And here is the bread out of the machine.  I will be making french toast with this.  My grandfather felt that this was the best french toast ever.  We will find out.  I have made it before, but I didn’t use the right kind of malt.

Next I made this Chocolate Zucchini Cake.  This is an excellent cake from my childhood.

Here is the zucchini I used from the garden.  I only used a portion of it.  I did use Swerve instead of the sugar.  And I used our eggs.

Here is the cake baked still in the bundt pan.

Here is a better view of the pan.  I love this one and have had it a long time.

Then I tackled this Boston Ritz-Carlton adapted blueberry muffin recipe.  I have made the Jordan Marsh muffins before as part of my participation in A Taste of Old Colony History program. This was in July 2021.  I commented that they were really good, but unfortunately I do not remember them very well.

And here are the new muffins.  They are gorgeous, but I haven’t tried them yet to comment.  I had to buy new muffin tin for larger muffins for this recipe though.  They are call Texas sized.  I did substitute Swerve for the sugar.  And I was able to use 4.5 cups of our fresh blueberries (and our eggs, of course)

The I moved on to Snicker Doodles from my childhood.

I actually bought shortening for this recipe because this is how I remember it.  I did use sugar for this recipe too.  I had to run out to the barn to find more eggs as I had run out.  Fortunately the hens had laid some more since this morning.  Here are some of the cookies.  They are great, like I remember.

So now I am happy to relax as the temperatures drop and watch the Seahawks game.