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Recipe of the Week – Old-fashioned Homemade Bread
(From the Breads category at www.emealsforyou.com)
Old-fashioned Homemade Bread
The weather is still a little chilly here. We had a week in the low 60′s and then the rain, which brought back the chilly weather. It’s a good day to bake bread. We have company coming next week and then Easter brunch here so I will begin to bake the breads I will serve. I usually bake it and freeze it until I need it; then simply put it in a warm oven just before serving.
This recipe comes to us via my partner, Chef Teresa. It is a wonderful addition to any meal and is great for those leftover sandwiches. Give it a try but be fore-warned; you ‘d better make two loaves as the first one will disappear while it is still warm from the baking.
Old Fashioned Homemade Bread
| Complexity: | Medium |
| Serves: | 12 |
| Category: | Breads |
| Meal: | Veggie – Veggie Brunch (Theme Meal Plans) |
| 2 | cup | water |
| 1 | cup | oats, old-fashioned rolled |
| 2 | package | yeast, dried |
| 1 | Tb | salt, table |
| 0.5 | cup | honey |
| 3 | Tb | butter, salted |
| 4.5 | cup | flour, all-purpose |
Pour two cups of boiling water over 1 cup of rolled oats. Let mixture stand for 1/2 hour. Mix two pkgs dry yeast into 1/3 cup wrist temperature water in a small bowl. To the oat mixture add 1 Tablespoon salt, 1/2 cup honey, and two tablespoons melted butter. Make sure mixture is at room temperature then stir in the yeast mixture. Gradually add 4 1/2 to 5 cups flour. Knead five to eight minutes or until dough is smooth and elastic. Put dough in large greased bowl and cover bowl with clean towel. Let rise in warm place until doubled in bulk. Punch it down and divide in half. Shape into two loaves and put in two large greased bread pans. Bake at 325 degrees for 45 to 50 minutes. Brush melted butter over top of baked loaves.
Add comment March 16, 2010
Recipe of the Week – Breads
(From the Breads Collection at emealsforyou.com)
I found a new bread recipe the other day and decided I needed to get back into the bread baking mode. Maybe I overdid it a little but once you have flour all over the kitchen why not make more. My wife mentioned she would like to have some date nut bread; I call it date and nut bread but then again she “knows” better. ( updated correction: she looked it up on the Internet and looks like she is right and I am wrong; for the first time I might add) Anyway, so there I was making rye bread and the date nut bread and why not add some ciabatti to the mix.
I especially like the ciabatti and rye breads as they develop their taste and “crumb” texture by resting overnight on the counter. Once you learn how to deal with the really moist, sticky dough it is a simple task to shape the loaves and bake them. The date / nut bread takes about 5 minutes to mix; although you have to let the dates and nuts sit in hot water for 15 minutes. I usually bake them in small loaves, then freeze them. A minute in the microwave when I feel like eating some is quick and always a special treat.
The recipes are on the website: emealsforyou.com along with many more. Now that Fall is coming I will begin to try different artisan breads and pass along the ones that work to you.
Date & Nut Bread
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 10 |
| Category: | Breads |
| Meal: | other (General) |
| 1 | cup | Dates, dried, chopped |
| 1 | cup | walnuts, chopped |
| 0.33 | cup | karo syrup, dark |
| 1.5 | tsp | baking soda |
| 0.5 | tsp | salt, kosher |
| 3 | Tb | butter, unsalted |
| 0.75 | cup | water |
| 2 | large | egg |
| 0.75 | cup | sugar, white |
| 0.5 | cup | flour, wheat |
| 1 | cup | flour, all-purpose |
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease a 81/2 X 41/2 X 3 inch loaf pan.
Put dates, walnuts, baking soda, salt, karo syrup and butter in a bowl. Heat water to the boil and pour on top of date mixture. Let stand for 15 minutes.
Beat eggs and sugar together in a large bowl. Add the flours and stir. Add in the date mixture and stir until well blended. Pour batter into the loaf pan and bake 40 -50 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Remove from oven and allow to cool. Slide a knife around pan and invert over a serving plate. May be frozen.
Add comment September 7, 2009
Recipe of the Week – Ciabatta Bread
(From the Breads Collection at emealsforyou.com)
Ciabatta
I have no patience; this is not just my wife telling me, I know this of myself. One way to overcome this was to learn how to bake bread. You see baking bread takes patience, lots of patience. Most people think it is hard to bake bread; truth is it is fairly easy but requires short periods of activity and then lots of waiting, patience is a virtue, especially in bread baking.
We are talking breads that need to rise, yeast breads not sweet breads. The main goal for those of us, who are learning patience, is a golden chewy,crust and an airy, moist “crumb” the dough part of the bread with lots of holes. See, here is where it gets a little dicey, trying to get all those things to happen by themselves. Most breads require kneading, folding and “TLC” and maybe some luck. Those of us who bake bread talk to everyone we know who bakes bread to try to find the answers. We trade recipes, equipment and mostly well wishes. So when Capt. Jim (Capt. Jim’s Tomato Focaccio ) sent me this recipe and told me it worked and was very easy, I decided to give it a go.
So if you find your life is a series of 5 minutes bursts, you like great bread or maybe you need to learn some patience here is Capt. Jim’s recipe.
Note the holes and moist "crumb"
Ciabatta
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 8 |
| Category: | Breads |
| Meal: | N/A |
| 4 | cup | flour |
| 0.25 | tsp | yeast, dried |
| 1.5 | tsp | salt, kosher |
| 2 | cup | water |
Add flour, yeast and salt to a large mixing bowl; stir in warm (not hot) water. Mix until a a very soft, very sticky dough forms. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit in a cool, dry place for 18 hours. Place dough on a floured surface, punch down and fold into itself in thirds. Place a piece of parchment paper; a little bigger than the dough on a work surface, flour the paper. Place dough on the parchment and shape into a long loaf. Cover with a white cotton towel and let rise for 2 hours. Dough will spread out but not up.
Preheat oven to 425º. Cut off any excess parchment showing around the ciabatta. Slide a pizza peel or an upside down cookie sheet under the bread. Slide the bread, paper side down onto the pizza stone or preheated cookie sheet. Spray the bread in the oven with a spray bottle with just water every 2 minutes for the first 12 minutes; this will give you a good crust. Bake for 35 minutes, until lightly brown. Remove from oven and let it cool for 10 minutes before cutting. May be frozen.
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2 comments February 19, 2009
