The Bread Recipe

[kib]

This is a link to the easiest artisan bread recipe in the world, it's the original one that was posted on the old forums. Yum!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/21/dining/211brex.html


ETA: Thank you to Bae for posting this originally. IMHO it just might be the most magical thing that ever came to me from the forums, I am now known as 'the woman who makes that amazing bread'.

[razz]

Oh, for the first time, I realize that I can bake four loaves at once. I thought that each had to be baked separately which consumed a lot of energy. Will try this now.

[Raziela]

good call, kib, on resurrecting this one!

[Amaranth]

I love how all the fermenting time gives more flavor to the bread.

The authors continue to post related recipes on their website and they just finished their new 5 minute pizza and flatbread book. They plan to have it on the shelves in Oct 2011.
http://www.artisanbreadinfive.com/

And there is info from the first book at
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-...tes-A-Day.aspx

[razz]

I love how all the fermenting time gives more flavor to the bread.

The authors continue to post related recipes on their website and they just finished their new 5 minute pizza and flatbread book. They plan to have it on the shelves in Oct 2011.
http://www.artisanbreadinfive.com/

And there is info from the first book at
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-...tes-A-Day.aspx

Thanks for the info, Amaranth. I just checked their website and their panettone recipe looks wonderful. I must try it soon.

[fidgiegirl]

Going to have to give this one a try. Hoping to become more adept at baking, including bread, this year.

Thanks so much for putting this up again. I wanted to retrieve it out of the old forums before they died and had no luck. Yippee!

[Hattie]

I think the best thing I ever purchased was my bread machine. Here is a great and healthy recipe for bread that we really like. It makes a short, dense loaf and goes great with peanut butter.

Multi-Grain Bread

1 ½ cups warm water
3 tbsp. skim milk powder
2 tbsp. honey
2 tbsp. butter
1 tbsp. molasses
1 ½ tsp. salt
2 cups white bread machine flour
1 ¼ cups whole wheat flour
1/3 cup rolled oats toasted*
3 tbsp. cornmeal
3 tbsp. wheat germ
1 tbsp. flax seed
1/3 cup sunflower seeds (no shells please)
2 tsp. bread machine yeast

Add ingredients to bread machine in order given above. Set on whole wheat/whole grain cycle; medium/normal colour setting.

*To toast the oats, spread a thin layer in a shallow baking pan. Bake at 350 F for 10 – 15 minutes or until light golden brown, stirring often. If you want to toast enough oats for more than one loaf, just freeze the extra oats in premeasured amounts.

[iris lily]

I really want to be that woman, too. I keep saying that in the winter I'll try that bread recipe. Well, here it is winter. Maybe I'll try it when our latest rescue dog leaves. He consuming a little bit of time.

[fidgiegirl]

I just made it! It was awesome! It helped that I just got the Artisan Breads in Five Minutes a Day book from the library, because there were pictures in there.

I do not have a baking stone so just used a cookie sheet.

The only problem was that the middle game out kind of doughy. I read in the book that it was from underbaking. Since this happened the first time I tried a loaf of yeast bread (several months ago), it tells me that our oven is not at the right temp. I need to (as the book recommends) buy an oven thermometer.

In fact I have to buy quite a few things to keep this bread project going! That thermometer, more yeast, and maaaaaybe a baking stone. We'll see.

[kib]

Take a local ceramics class and you can make your own baking stone, and people cultivate their own yeast, too! I don't know how to make a good oven thermometer, though. Although .... oh never mind.

Seriously, I think there is a variation of this recipe that uses a dutch oven instead of a baking stone that people also said worked just great, if you have one of those. Anyone?