Baking

Charleston Baker Solves A Family Food Mystery And Creates A New Twist On 'Ooey-Gooey' Bread Recipe

There’s nothing like the smell of freshly baked cinnamon rolls straight out of the oven. A baker in West Virginia borrows from her Finnish family roots to put a new twist on this traditional treat. Folkways Reporter Zack Harold has the story.

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The Sweet Story Of Finnamon Buns, Inside Appalachia

This week on Inside Appalachia, a West Virginia baker draws on her Finnish heritage to make a different kind of cinnamon roll. Also, for nearly a century, some of Appalachia’s best wood carvers have trained at a North Carolina folk school. Newcomers are still welcomed in to come learn the craft. And, we have a conversation with Kentucky poet Willie Carver Jr.

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Innovating Finnish Desserts And Our Song Of The Week, This West Virginia Morning

On this West Virginia Morning, a West Virginia baker has a new twist on the classic cinnamon bun that borrows from her Finnish family bread recipe.

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Appalachian Bakers Find Flavor, Community In Locally Stone-milled Flour

Rachel Greene, one of our folkways reporters, has been talking with bakers who bake pies and cookies with flour that’s ground the old fashioned way — at a stone mill. One of the bakers shared a recipe with Rachel for Buckwheat Chocolate Chip cookies.

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