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I enjoy making bread. It's a nice project for a cold day, and it's not really as complicated as all that when you have a good recipe. I tend to go for over complicated stuff, but this weekend I kept it simple. I chose a recipe has just four ingredients, yeast, water, salt and flour. It makes fantastically dense and yeasty bread.
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| collecting the stuff |
I'm not going to actually give you the recipe, unless you ask. If you're in to it, you should get a book about baking. I have
the book of bread, which is pretty good, but whatever.
I will show a lot of pictures though. Here we see the yeast going creamy.
Salt and a bunch of flour go in.
It gets mixed up, and stuck on the counter.
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| dough |
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| work surface |
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| needing kneeding |
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Kneeding takes about ten minutes later. I don't have a machine or anything. Just good, old fashioned hands. Once it's nice and elastic, and all the gluten is activated, it rises for a couple hours. The stovetop has a warming pad, which sped up the rise.
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| mr dough, you're kneeded |
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| he is risen |
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| he is beaten down |
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After splitting the dough in half and putting it in pans, it rises another hour. Then, finally, actual baking.
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| he was panned |
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| he rose again |
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| baking |
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Then cooling. Then slicing. Then eating.
Eating eating eating. Yum yum yum. This bread is fantastic with butter. It makes a pretty good sandwich too. I could see myself eating this stuff as my primary bread. I'll be making it again.
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