Fresh Bread

[mindem]

It's a cold Minnesota winter day and a good day to kick out some bread, it sure makes the house smell good. These are some of the lean straight dough boules I make for my cottage baking stuff.



Nice sized holes to soak up the butter or other good stuff.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. nice! using the no-knead recipe?

our favorite use of that sort of bread - return to the oven to really crisp the crust - the dip in EVOO that has just a bit of coarse salt and pepper.

Pure joy!

[mindem]

4. Yep, it's pretty much no-knead

I find myself using the Reinhart stretch and fold thing quite a bit, even with my basic white bread.

[spooky3]

2. Beautiful!

[Voltaire2]

3. I've been baking a simple no knead loaf every thursday night for the weekend.

water flour yeast and salt. It couldn't be easier and it is simply delicious.

[democratisphere]

5. Now that is bread! Don't know much about making and baking it;

just about eating it! Thanks for the visual!

[Ohiogal]

6. I can just imagine

What an irresistible aroma abounds in your kitchen!

I've been on a low carb diet for a while now, and I'd give my right arm for a slice of that heaven!

[shraby]

7. Anyone ever make fried bread? Even the frozen kind from the store will taste good.

Take a handful of the thawed dough, stretch it and stretch it until it's about 5-6 inches around and flat. Put it in a greased pan and fry it till brown, flip it and brown the other side. Put some butter/jelly on it an yum yum.

You can make extra and if it doesn't all get eaten, it can be heated in the microwave at another time.

[applegrove]

8. Nothing like the smell of bread. I was in Paris one time looking for a tripmates

lost purse in the early, early morning. We walked blocks and blocks and every block had at least one bakery in them. It was the most wonderful smell.

[Hortensis]

9. Those are beautiful, Mindem. Don't know why I don't make

bread more often, not that I know how to do most. But I like an almost no-knead recipe that's, to me, astonishingly, ridiculously fast, nothing to it. The kneading is just a few folds and pushes that make it fun and are actually the reason I kept this recipe over no-knead.