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_refugee_  ·  3698 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Grubski Challenge #2: The New Green

did you say freshly baked bread, my dear?





Complexity  ·  3698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It will be a summer wedding; add walnuts and we will wear white and the honeymoon will be on a remote island unknowing of the internet or modern technology.

_refugee_  ·  3698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Alas, for even now, the walnuts come too late:

Complexity  ·  3698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would eat that despite my fear of bread. Bake it!

_refugee_  ·  3698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Why afraid?

Just pulled out of the oven. Only six ingredients. Easy peasy.

Complexity  ·  3698 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  

Dem carbs.

_refugee_  ·  3698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

dat photoshawp

thenewgreen  ·  3698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

cliffelam used to make some pretty good bread and it was a recipe straight off of a flour bag if I recall correctly.

What's your recipe _ref_? I've never baked bread. It's time I do.

_refugee_  ·  3698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nick Malgieri's White Pan Bread from "How To Bake." Easily made vegan. Dad joke: Why's it gotta be WHITE pans, sheesh?

1 envelope yeast 2 c. warm (110-120 degree) water 5-5.5c flour 1 tbsp salt 1 tbsp sugar 5 tbsp butter, melted, or veg oil

Combine flour, salt sugar.

Put yeast in warm water & let set until bubbles - "proofing"

Combine yeast mix, oil, & dry mix. Stir for a while, and then when you can't stir, knead in the bowl for a while until all the flour is sucked up. If dough seems excessively sticky add more flour but start with less and try to add as little as possible.

Grease bowl. Place dough in bowl and let rise, 1 hour.

Punch down dough. Divide into 2. shape into rectangle. fold rectangle into thirds. from skinny end roll up. drop into greased 8.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 loaf pan. (hint: rectangle should be long enough that 1/3 = length of loaf pan - 8.5 inches or so. it's okay if the measurements are sticky.)

let rise 1 hour.

preheat oven to 400, stick 'em in for 25-30 min. bread is done when sounds hollow when bottom of pan is tapped on.

enjoy

maybe let cool first if you don't want to mush it when you cut it.

I love making bread.

cliffelam  ·  3697 days ago  ·  link  ·  

King Arthur white bread flour recipe.

My "secret" is that I use a scale to measure ingredients. A bit less water in the summer, a bit more in the winter. I also let it rise (generally) longer than they say, at lease overnight.

-C