White bread, huh? Yeah. Sounds great!
On 1/7/17, Penny Reeder via Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Will, You can certainly purchase a bread machine, but you don't > need one! I'm going to share an easy recipe for crusty French-style > bread. The dough makes enough for at least 3 loaves, and you don't > have to use it all at once. You can store it, covered in the > refrigerator, for up to 2 weeks, and take it out to bake another loaf > as needed. I love this bread and made it quite a lot at the beginning > of 2016, then I got out of the habbit. I think you are inspiring me to > begin making bread again! Hardly anything in the world is more > delicious than homemade bread with sweet Irish butter! > > Simple Crusty Bread, from "Artisan Bread for 5 Minutes a Da > " > > Here's the recipe for Simple Crusty Bread that ran in The New York > Times: "In a large bowl or > plastic container, mix 1 1/2 tablespoons yeast and 1 1/2 tablespoons > kosher salt into 3 cups > lukewarm water (about 100 degrees). Stir in 6 1/2 cups flour, mixing > until there are no dry > patches. Dough will be quite loose. Cover, but not with an airtight > lid. Let dough rise at room > temperature 2 hours (or up to 5 hours). > > "Bake at this point or refrigerate, covered, for as long as two weeks. > When ready to bake, > sprinkle a little flour on dough and cut off a grapefruit-size piece > with serrated knife. Turn > dough in hands to lightly stretch surface, creating a rounded top and > a lumpy bottom. Put dough on > pizza peel sprinkled with cornmeal; let rest 40 minutes. Repeat with > remaining dough or > refrigerate it. > > "Place broiler pan on bottom of oven. Place baking stone on middle > rack and turn oven to 450 > degrees; heat stone at that temperature for 20 minutes. Dust dough > with flour, slash top with > serrated or very sharp knife three times. Slide onto stone. Pour 1 cup > hot water into broiler pan > and shut oven quickly to trap steam. Bake until well-browned, about 30 > minutes. Cool completely. > Yields 4 loaves." > > > > I usually get only 3 loaves from this amount of dough -- I guess my > family likes a larger loaf. Like any French bread, this loaf does not > keep very well -- but we have no trouble eating most of a loaf at one > meal and making French toast out of any that's left over. > > Enjoy! > Penny > > > On 1/7/17, Deborah Barnes via Cookinginthedark > <[email protected]> wrote: >> There was this really wonderful lady who used to make white bread for me >> when I was little. I don't know what her recipe was but it was the best >> bread I ever had--she didn't have a machine, and I've never tasted any >> bread >> (machine or otherwise) that tasted as good as hers. <g< >> >> Deb B. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kathy Brandt via Cookinginthedark >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2017 5:29 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: Kathy Brandt >> Subject: Re: [CnD] What do I need to begin baking bread? >> >> You don't have to have a bread machine. I don't have one. I started out >> making white bread. >> >>> On Jan 7, 2017, at 4:51 PM, William Henderson via Cookinginthedark >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> It's kind of cool that I'm asking this, as my cooking skills have >>> begun to get better and now I can prepare very simple meals and am >>> getting better. >>> I love bread and have always wondered how to bake bread. Even if it's >>> just bread I can just use for eating with dinner or sandwiches and >>> then getting better. >>> I want to know what materials I need to begin. I know I need some >>> kind of bread machine but don't have one. What do you recommend? >>> And, does anyone have recipes to get me started? I hope it will be >>> easy. >>> Will >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Cookinginthedark mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Cookinginthedark mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Cookinginthedark mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark >> > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
