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Recipes => Recipes => Baker's Corner => Topic started by: Smokin Don on March 11, 2014, 03:14:57 PM
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Mar 11 2014
Here it is 59 deg. in Ohio and I am inside. The crazy weather is not considering my cooking plans! The forecast is rain tonight then turning to snow tomorrow and a low in the single digits tomorrow night. Possible 3 to 5 inches of snow. Then back to 50 deg. by Friday! I should have had something planned for the smoker today.
I wanted to try one of my Bread in 5 loaves in cast iron; kind of marrying it with Lahey’s no-knead bread recipe. I made up the ball and let rise for 40 minutes and had my 5 quart Dutch oven preheating in a 450 deg. oven. I had the loaf on parchment paper and just lifted paper and all and placed it in the Dutch oven, covered with the lid. I did it with lid on for 20 minutes then took the lid off and continued to bake. I checked it in 5 minutes and it looked good to me. Looks like I got a crispy crust with good color.
I had baked a lot of loaves with the Lahey recipe and knew I got a crust with more crispness than the Bread in 5 method. I would describe the Bread in 5 crust as crispy but slightly chewy. I still like the Bread in 5 method the best; I like the convenience of having the dough ready in the fridge all the time and I can get a nice loaf of bread done in an hour and a half. Using the heavy Dutch oven is not that easy and will probably just do it once in a while. Lodge makes a 4 quart Dutch oven and it would be a little lighter to handle.
Ready for the oven
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/Indoor%20cooking/_3111397_zps74b58b33.jpg)
Cooling
(http://i1039.photobucket.com/albums/a474/deains/Indoor%20cooking/_3111398_zps6ade0484.jpg)
Smokin Don
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Very nice loaf.
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Looks like a bowling ball. Good looking bread
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Pound of butter and I would take care of that loaf for you ;D
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Great color on that bread Don!
I would take a few slices ;)
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Don..looks perfect to me..I do mine in cast iron on the tbe or srg or beeser. Learned it from Tommy..just got to get a pan that fits..8" does it. Pam .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
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I do dutch oven too.Properly seasoned just a cornmeal dusting in it and comes loose by hand.I do my cooking times like yours too.Makes a fine loaf for sure!
Have also done on cast iron pan,also great results.
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Great looking loaf of bread. ;)
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I am really enjoying all these different breads you're making from the "Bread in Five Minutes a Day" technique.
Mar 11 2014
Here it is 59 deg.
Same here, but never fear... it won't stay that way. It's suppose to be snowing again by tomorrow morning and down to 4° by tomorrow afternoon. :'(