Let's Talk BBQ
Recipes => Recipes => Baker's Corner => Topic started by: veryolddog on September 14, 2013, 07:31:25 PM
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After all the discussions about fresh bread being baked by our illustrious cadre of chefs on this forum, I thought that I would give it a go while watching football today. Started out with Oklahoma versus Tulsa and that bored me. Since 2:30 PM I have been watching Alabama versus Texas A & M. The game went as I predicted. Sorry Tee.
Made up some dough this morning beginning around 10:00 AM. Very simple recipe:
6 cups bread flour
2 packages of yeast in 2 1/2 cups water
6 TBS splenda
3 TBS salt
6 TBS Butter, melted an then put into the flour
2 TBS olive oil
I made 3 loaves of bread: one white bread and 2 with Italian Seasoning mixed into the dough. One dough, I saved and froze for a future pizza.
Here are a few shots of the process.
(http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l494/edsigman/IMG_20130914_154957_329.jpg) (http://s1120.photobucket.com/user/edsigman/media/IMG_20130914_154957_329.jpg.html)
The fourth dough was with Italian seasoning was in a separate bowl rising.
Here's a picture of the results:
(http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l494/edsigman/IMG_20130914_173731_135.jpg) (http://s1120.photobucket.com/user/edsigman/media/IMG_20130914_173731_135.jpg.html)
(http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l494/edsigman/IMG_20130914_173753_677.jpg) (http://s1120.photobucket.com/user/edsigman/media/IMG_20130914_173753_677.jpg.html)
I want to thank PZ as I followed a process he outlined for baking bread. I have a deep skillet from Lodge with a smaller skillet that is used both as a cover for the deep skillet and a small skillet by itself. After placing a little spray on oil on the inside of the skillet, I placed the dough inside after the second rise, covered the unit and placed it into a 450 degree oven where it sat for 30 minutes. After the 30 minutes, I removed the cover and baked for another 15 minutes and the result is shown. The bread came out better than I expected and very tasty with fresh melted butter on the slices. Yum. Could make a meal out of this without anything else.
One of the Italian seasoning loaves goes to my son tomorrow as he hosting the family dinner.
Have a nice evening,
Ed
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Very nice Ed! Great job mister. You my friend are hooked now, and that is a good thing.
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Ed - very nice! It sure doesn't look like a first try. Those look good enough to eat. Keep 'em coming.
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wow, your bread looks great. nice color. good job partner. 8)
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I think VOD is sandbagging us ;)
That is some fine looking bread
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Awesome, I love fresh baked bread!!!
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That looks fantastic! Another LTBBQ Baker has arrived.
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Beautiful work Ed - the bread is a fantastic looking!
And - thanks for the sentiment, but - I am not down about the game. I thought it was a little closer than it could have been. Hats of to 'Bama!
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Beautiful work Ed - the bread is a fantastic looking!
And - thanks for the sentiment, but - I am not down about the game. I thought it was a little closer than it could have been. Hats of to 'Bama!
That 2nd half was fun to watch! I don't have a dog in this race, but it was a great game to watch.
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Great looking bread!!! Don
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Looks good from here.
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Have some sourdough starter brewing now... Will be baking later in the week!
(http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums/q616/bbqchef/Fivedaystarterwm.jpg)
(My first forage into baking bread... I'm a chef, not a chemist <lol>!)
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Throw one of those up my way Ed!
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Those breads look as good and any I have seen in a store.
Well done
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Love home made bread and yours looks good. Pass the butter and bread my way!
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Your bread looks fantastic, Ed, and certainly looks like you've been doing bread for many years