This is an ongoing project to provide recipes from the cookbook to readers on the web, and to provide support for collective/ cooperative bakeries that are still in business.
This site is being built starting December 22, 2010. In the course of 2011, I hope to have most of the recipes and tips from Uprisings: The Whole Grain Bakers’ Book posted.
Read the “About” page for more information; also, click on the “Welcome” title to read comments about this website.
“Moist, Toothsome”
Two 8″ cakes.
This sweet rich cake will melt in your mouth. You’ll agree it’s very fine just as it is, but if your fancy has it, besmear it with the dairy-free frosting on [page 158] or this Cream Cheese Frosting:
Combine well:
Combine dry ingredients together and stir them into the wet
Oil the pans, pour in the batter.
Bake at 350° for 45 minutes or until fork comes out clean. Cool before removing from pans.
On the Rise started in 1980 in an abandoned warehouse district which is gradually being reclaimed as a retail and residential area. We are a five-person collective. We have a special commitment to using whole, regional, seasonal foods defining what a healthy food economy would look like without massive processing and transportation.
On the Rise grew out of the progressive political community in Syracuse. Bonds of mutual support between our collective and other collectives and individuals in our community have made it possible for On the Rise to grow and prosper over the past 5 years, and to make our contribution to a healthier, more peaceful world. [...]
Using an #8 ice cream scoop (1/2 cup) drop cookies onto oiled sheet.
Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes
Makes 2 dozen enormous cookies
Preheat oven to 350°
Pour dry into wet.
Mix evenly.
Scoop into oiled or papered muffin tins.
Bake until well-browned, firm on top, about 30 minutes
Makes one dozen.
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Preheat oven to 350°.
Oil tins.
Pour wet into dry.
Mix well.
Spoon out into muffin tins.
Bake at least 25 minutes
Makes one dozen.
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There were many things we were tempted to write about. We wanted to explain everything; obviously impossible in several paragraphs or pages. What seems most important to express here is what we are trying to do. And the essence of that is trying to become whole human beings.
From our individual and collective experience, not from some book, we realized that the first step in this process was the unconscious or conscious awareness that life, not merely survival, is based on people working/playing together, struggling together for and against things, choosing together how to work/play, how to fight. It is in this fight, this struggle against the destruction and degradation of personality, of people as creatures with emotions, of whole races, of women, of the working class, that we glimpse what it is to be really human, to be really free. [...]
Below is the introductory page for Uprisings Baking Collective, Berkeley, CA
Uprisings Baking Collective is a worker-run whole grain bakery located in Berkeley. Established in 1975, Uprisings produces naturally baked goods made with organic whole grain flours, fresh fruits and vegetables, and never with white or brown sugar. The fifteen workers here turn out over 2,000 loaves of bread each week plus thousands of cookies and hundreds of pounds of granola every week. We deliver our baked goods all over Berkeley, and at our storefront sell a variety of baked goods and groceries at the lowest prices around.
There is no boss here–all decisions are made by the workers. Conflicts are solved co-operatively, and major decisions are made at regular workers’ meetings. All workers participate in most aspects of the bakery — from sales and baking, to clean-up and bookkeeping. We emphasize the development of each worker to their fullest potential. [...]
For years Uprisings Baking Collective added a second label to our loaves: The first label was your typical bread label–name of bread, ingredients, etc. But when local organizations needed publicity, Uprisings came to the assistance by slipping “talking bread labels” in with the loaves. Below are a selection of labels that where duplicated in the book.
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