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 <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org> 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:cookinginthedark@acbradio.org] > Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2017 5:29 PM > To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org > 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 >> <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org> 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 >> Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org >> http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark > _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
