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Love to bake anything from scratch...it helps me relax--especially bread.  By the time you knead the dough 8-10 minutes, you are a lot less frustrated than when you began.  Lots better than anything from a tube, box, or freezer too.  Sign me up!  I'll get some recipes together and put them out there for anybody who's interested.  Look forward to sharing with you!

i'm utterly convinced that if everyone baked bread once in a while it would be a better world!

Hi Patty.  Sign me up as well! I would love to swap some recipes with skipbit and everyone.  I hope jord9801 will post her recipe for buttermilk biscuits.  I make mine from scratch but with regular milk. So am interested in hers.

I am more of a scratch cooker except for my banana bread...so i would like to get more recipies for baking.  Oh i made my first from scratch ckae the other day..who knew it was so simple why even buy a box cake mix all the ingredients are already in my pantry.

Hi Everyone: We just started this category and we are pretty excited about! In the next few days we'll have some focused threads in which we would love your thoughts and advice.

I've made a few things from scratch... but it's an area that I want to understand better. So, to say the least- I'm happy you are here. And look forward to learning more from you.

Sincerely, Cate

Sounds GREAT.  I cook most things from scratch

Is there a way that when recipes are on the site that use box mixes (like for cakes, desserts, etc.) that you can also have the recipe as it would be if entirely made from scratch?  Often I see a recipe I'm interested in and then am SO disappointed that it says 'cake mix' or whatever.  I may as well just go to another site and find a similar recipe from scratch and adjust it instead of trying to figure out how to make this one from scratch. I realize that many people are 'in a hurry' and love those box mixes, but there are those of us who still do it from scratch--every time.

Count me in. I rarely use box mixes for anything although, I do use cake mixes more than not.

Hi everyone,

I am fairly new to yeast bread baking, and would like to learn from others who are better at it than I am (which, I'm sure, would be 99.999% of the people on this board).  I started with making my own pizza dough because the older I get, the less I'm able to eat pizzeria pizza -- just too much salt and fat.  When I realized that my pizza dough was delicious, I figured I'd move on to bigger and better things. 

By the way, Rose - I just got The Bread Bible and have hardly put it down (except to bake, of course).  I've learned a lot just by reading through the chapters, and I can't wait until I get a few recipes under my belt.

Happy baking everyone.

            I have done some scratch baking @enjoy it when I have time. I would love to learn more......     

Hi patty, Count me in to! Most of what I cook is from scratch, there is only two of us and most recipes are for familes, but I cook for my parents once a month and church pot-lucks 1-2 times a month. I love to cook/bake and try new/different recipes.  My motto is "I've been pounding screws with a hatchit for so long that I can make anything form nothing" Granna2

Hi Patty,

Please sign me up this. I taught myself to bake and it has been from scratch ever since. When I am baking I feel like I am in my own world, cause I love it so much. Of all the baking that I do pies are my specialty, especially apple pie. I am always looking forward to trying new recipes. When seeing this I just have to sign up

grammasgirls

hey how are u doing

Hi Patty,

I would also like to join the scratch club.  Great place to meet new friends and learn new ways.  I've made scratch cakes and breads for a lot of years, but never to late to learn more and better things.

Sincerely,

Leila

The Michigan State University Libraries has an online collection of old digital cookbooks. Some of them go back to the 1800's. You can read them online or download them in PDF format for free. 

Here is a link to the list of online cookbooks. They call this collection Feeding America:

http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/browse.html

Wow. This link is a total treasure Antilope! Thank you for posting... I am waiting for book to download as we speak.

Sincerely, Cate

Thank you so much for the address for the cookbooks!  They are awesome!  I just spent a couple of hours browsing through a few of them. 

Hello, just discovered this area. I bake biscuits, cornbread, some yeast bread, but not good at that yet. I learned to bake by scratch, and stubbornly keep to that. I want my grandchildren to remember baking like I remember from my grandmother and mother. Trying cookies tonight for Christmas. Happy holidays to everyone.

Cool! I'll be watching this board - I'm not much on buying mixes and such but enjoy baking from scratch!