2017HomeBakingAssociationBakingEventsEditorialCalendarThirdQuarter—SharonDavis,HomeBaking.orgJuly 2017 Summer is no time to stop baking! It’s the perfect month to celebrate Culinary Arts Month and polish baking creativity and skills by preparing for local, county and state fair competitions. Gain the competitive edge.

1. Start with tested recipes from HBA Test Kitchens. 2. Meet HBA members who sponsor fair baking awards.

www.chsugar.com; www.dominosugar.com; www.kswheat.com; www.okwheat.org

3. Sculpt specialty rolls, braids and centerpiece entries Need help? Talk to a baker-- call OR log on at

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/bakers-hotline/ Need some Grilling Month goals? Add grilled pizza or flatbread to your skill set! Ice Cream Month could scoop a new recipe every day. Kids and grandparents will love Chocolate Pudding Popsicles for starters!

July Belongs to Blueberries Month bakers will love Blueberry Banana Bread and Blueberry Bread Pudding. Add a blueberry search at www.landolakes.com and you’ll find too many options to count. I’ll start with a blueberry flan! Kids can Book and Bake with Blueberries for Sal! Let Picnic Month begin with something new! Pack Focaccia Picnic Sandwiches or an ethnic hand-held meat pies, Russian Piroshkis or Bierocks. Try a new method and dry griddle bake Soft Wrap Bread. Boiling water is mixed with the flour, “cooking” the starch and resulting in a soft, pliable product to cradle what comes off the grill.

• Check out the latest summer Food Safety Guidelines. Bake for Service Learning: Early starts on cooking and baking skills matter! With summer learning a priority, baking is “STEAM” education. Bake with friends, sibs, and when you baby-sit to teach children baking basics.

• Find starter resources (English and Spanish) Ten Tips for Baking Success with Kids Age-appropriate Thrill of Skill Food Skill Check List Portable Kitchen videos/recipes.

• You’ll love Bake for Good Kids self-directed resources! • KidsaCookin’ and The Family Dinner Project are great!

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August 2017—A Month for Sandwiches, Family Fun and Peaches Sharon Davis, HomeBaking.org August puts the “wrap” on summer and the soft-opening of fall. Is that why someone deemed it National Sandwich Month? People are still planning summer Family Fun at the same time they’re back-to-school shopping! In honor of both summer and fall, let’s just say the sandwiches could be the ice cream variety or the lunch-box specials kids will look forward to at school. For one of the most popular meal delivery systems in America, let’s take a minute for sandwich history. "The bread-enclosed convenience food known as the "sandwich" is attributed to John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792), a British statesman and notorious profligate and gambler, who is said to be the inventor of this type of food so that he would not have to leave his gaming table to take supper.” Source, World Wide Web, 7/1/17-www.foodtimeline.org/foodsandwiches.html The best sandwiches begin with great bread. There are sandwich breads for everyone’s taste, including Gluten-Free Paleo! There’s Everyday Whole-Grain; Whole Wheat and White Buns and gourmet Asiago Herb Hoagies.

• Watch an Everyday Bread 101 how-to tutorial at http://www.homebaking.org/baking_channel.php#.WVarUSMrJWM

Peaches are the perfect fruit to celebrate for a month. It seems like there’s a new peach variety coming into our local market every couple weeks. Peaches are the longest running fruit of summer, taking us from June to Labor Day! Check out these remarkable peach recipes from HBA’s members:

• 11 top peach cobbler recipes • Fresh Peach Pie • Lazy Daisy Fruit Dessert

Peaches give a nod to apples by the 2nd week of August. Make the shift to Apple Week, learning more about this wonderful American favorite. Try recipes to enjoy for breakfast like the Apple Cinnamon Rolls or wrap a slice of Spiced Apple Bundt Cake to make the trek back-to-school a little sweeter for your kids.

Service Learning: Host a Home Room Parent Party complete with Baking Crafts and Activities to build relationships. Turn it into a classroom benefit.

1. Bake Vanilla or Chocolate cupcakes and frost with plain icing. 2. Create designer Rainbow Sugars for signature cupcake décor. 3. Get stepping. Showcase and sell the cupcakes to each other using a Cake Walk. 4. Ask the teacher what she’s needing for the classroom and contribute funds from cake walk.

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September 2017—A month for Better Breakfasts, Biscuits and Whole Grain Goodness Sharon Davis, HomeBaking.org Three month-long September baking events, Better Breakfast Month, Biscuit Month and Whole Grain Month, together offer a great opportunity to gain baking ingredient and preparation knowledge. From the field to the table, baking biscuits helps make better breakfasts and gives an opportunity to add whole grain baking skills.

Great biscuit resources include

• The six classes of Wheat and Flour 101: Flours used in biscuit baking include self-rising, all-purpose, and whole white wheat.

• Ask the Expert about Baking with Whole Wheat Flour 101, www.homebaking.org

• Explore Biscuit History and Traditions in the Buttery Breakfast Biscuit lesson, www.clabbergirl.com and with Crisco Baking Powder Biscuit.

• Watch a fifth generation milling CEO and biscuit baker, Robert Harper, prepare Cinnamon Biscuits at www.sunflourflour.com

• What’s the difference between Baking Soda and Baking Powder?

§ Gain more Southern Biscuit flour knowledge and Tips at http://www.marthawhite.com/about-cooking/how-to-make-biscuits Try a whole wheat biscuit for whole grain month http://heckersceresota.com/whole_wheat_biscuits.html

§ Gluten-Free needs, Gluten Free Drop Biscuits And Whole Grain Wheat-Free Biscuits

§ Let veggies boost your biscuit deliciousness! Sweet Potato Biscuits

See how preparing a better home breakfast can also save your hard-earned $$$! www.clabbergirl.com/breakfast-better/ Bake for Service Learning: In your community, partner with Senior Citizens to conduct a local eat better/eat breakfast challenge with your parent or grandparent! Bake, serve and let the public sample some great healthy breakfast options. Let The Family BREAKFAST Project get you started! In your school conduct a Smart Snack Bake Sale--http://www.homebaking.org/PDF/smart_snacks_bakersdozen.pdf -- to benefit a community need or for No Kid Hungry! Start planning now to enter your great idea in the 2018 Home Baking Association Educator Award to win $1000!

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