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Is It Too Hot For Any of You to Be Baking Today?

Marilyn Sue McClintock

11 years ago

It is plenty hot here today, but outside, 97. My kitchen is 70 right now and I have the oven on. I am baking some cornbread. Will give some to Amber's and I will keep some.

I also baked up another Hoosier Sugar Cream Pie and have the pork barbecue simmering. I still have some other kitchen jobs to do today. How about you, what are you doing?

Sue

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pam_25f
11 years ago
Well, nowhere near what you do, but I actually have blueberry muffins in the oven. I don't usually do muffins but blueberries were only 99 cents a pint and I couldn't resist. Air conditioning is on!
bigack
11 years ago
I don't go near the oven when it's hot out. We have AC, but still, no. I'll prob. make a jello cheesecake or something cold like that.
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Jasdip
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We're invited to a backyard barbecue and my lemon bundt cake was requested. I made it first thing this morning.

I have to bake bread, and I'll make sure I get it started very early in the morning.

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azzalea
11 years ago
Yes, it's way too hot to bake.

BUT I'm having company for lunch tomorrow, so did bake a cheesecake this morning (while boiling some chicken, as well). My kitchen isn't AC'd. Now I'm holed up in the living room with the room AC, and will probably be here the rest of the day. DH even brought me my lunch! (he's so afraid I'll have a kidney stone attack because of the heat).
joyfulguy
11 years ago
Thinking of putting a mix into the bread machine ...

... that sits in the spare bedroom.

o j
patti43
11 years ago
Yes, it is too hot. The house is cool, but the idea of baking makes me hot :-) I am going to turn it on later to make biscuits.

Isn't sugar cream pie the official pie of Indiana? Florida's is key lime, but I'm not crazy about either of them.
sheilajoyce_gw
11 years ago
Pleasant and cool in coastal Southern California so far. Our summer seems to run a month late, with the hottest Santana conditions usually in September. So if I were inclined to do so, I would bake today. But in the Santana hot windy weather, I avoid heating up the kitchen.
linda_in_iowa
11 years ago
No way! My kitchen doesn't have A/C so I have been eating cold meals or something that can go in the microwave.
schoolhouse_gw
11 years ago
Too hot to heat the oven...ugh. Bad enough I had to break down and do a load of laundry and then turn the dryer on (low heat). Hung the towels outside on the line tho, they were dry in two shakes.
jeaninwa
11 years ago
It cooled off today..only 80. I made a quiche, and have roast in the oven
susan_on
11 years ago
I had some friends over for a BBQ tonight, so along with everything else I made butter tarts.
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11 years ago
What I love here on the beautiful central coast of California is our climate.....never too hot or too cold.
But we complain when it gets below 40 or over 90......not too often.

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