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When the wife and I got married she was putting things on a registry. Jokingly I said I wanted a bread machine. One of my good friends got it for us. It sat in our stash of presents (we called it our at home department store) in the attic for probably 10 years. I pulled it down one day and started playing with it. I love it. The loaves are a little heavier than a normal pan made loaf, but still good.
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#6810942 03/21/2008:08 AM03/21/2008:08 AM
think it was 330 that posted a vid for that bread...…...I am going to do the same on sunday
I’m trying that one next week. Waiting on a Dutch oven from Amazon. Going to try my hand at baking and impress the wife!! Also learned that top of the line dutch oven cost $350+ holy cow. $60 sounded about right to me.
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#6811103 03/21/2010:02 AM03/21/2010:02 AM
Straight sourdough from a starter I made myself. Only ingredients in it are flour(s), some whole grains like steel cut oats, a multi grain cereal or cracked wheat etc, if you want some chew/crunch to it, water and a little salt.
Takes 24 hours to make from start to finish, but total hands on time is probably no more than 15 minutes.
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#6811142 03/21/2010:28 AM03/21/2010:28 AM
Of the you tube bread recipes the milk loafs are the best . They taste the same as old bread recipes but stay moist fluffier . Another supper you tube recipe that i must recomend is Cooks Country oatmeal raisin cookies , ive never liked any oatmeal cookie before .
Nessmuck, unless you have yeast in it, it is going to be baking powder and taste like hard tack.
I use rubber gloves that they use for washing dishes, it is cleaner and it allows you to deal with the dough. The reason bread is kneaded, and allowed to rise is to release the gluten, so it will make a nice loaf. It just behaves better.
If you are must making sandwich bread, then it is flour, salt, yeast and water. If you are making something to eat, then lard and sugar benefit the bread greatly. You will get different results with butter and oil, than lard. Bread is softer with oil in it and the dough will run or spill over while raising. Milk makes the dough drier, but the quality of bakery rolls, with more holes in it.
One more thing, line your bread pans or your Dutchman with parchment paper, and it solves all the sticking and headaches of trying to get it out of the pan.
I never share my bread dough recipe, but if you run out of yeast in the great pandemic, this is the recipe I use for sourdough that I call Dudley as it comes from Colonel Townsend Whelen's book about wilderness living.
3 cups sourdough starter 4 cups flour half cup sugar 1 tablespoon lard 1 tsp salt 1 tsp baking soda
Dudley the old sourdough who gave this recipe said to just knock this together as women fuss with it too much, as this bread raises in the gases from the sourdough and the baking soda reacting. This dough should be "wetter" as wet dough gives you a better rise while baking. It is baked immediately as without yeast it just sits there as the gluten is not activated. This will get you one moderate loaf.
Oh for starter, I just started out with warm water, flour and sugar. Left the lid off for natural yeast to start it, and mine has been going of 6 years now. I feed it with sugar and whole flour, same ratio of flour to water for a batter. Dudley said if you add pancakes and other things it would get volcanic, and a few years ago even mine bubbled pretty good, but in just the above rations, sitting on the stove, it has behaved without anything boiling over.
I like this starter as it is natural without having been started with commercial yeast. It has it's own unique mild sour flavor.
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#6811205 03/21/2011:30 AM03/21/2011:30 AM
The stores are always out of bread....just watched a you tube video...making no knead bread,in a Dutch oven. Looks Great ! Going to try it tomorrow. Any bread makers here ? Got easy recipes?
I'm going to try and make some in the instant pot.
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#6811225 03/21/2011:47 AM03/21/2011:47 AM
I’ve made that bread before, Nessy. It is super easy and very good. It does develop a nice hard crust so I tend to pair it with spaghetti, soup or anything with a sauce to soften it a bit.
I have kept the recipe basically the same but added bulgur and changed things a bit. Makes for a heartier loaf that I use everyday for sandwiches.
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Was thinking about baking a loaf of that today but my wife reminded me we still have most of a loaf of store-bought sourdough we need to finish. Next couple days, though.....