Thread: Fresh baked bread!

I just cant look at this thread anymore, you guys are killing me with this bread.

I just said to my girlfriend "We should make bread and her reply was " I think it's easier said than done"

Don't let my long winded post scare you off from trying to make bread. Real sourdough is probably the hardest bread to make.
There are many, many easy recipes to be found for easy bread. And, it always taste great when you make it yourself.

If you want to start with something easy, try making your own pizza crust. I have a pretty good recipe for whole wheat dough that I can post if you are interested.

Mgarbell is absolutely right, just go for it!
It takes some time, but most of the time is actually waiting.
Also, one big hint is to not be lazy working the dough. To little and the glutenfibres will not stay together, resulting in quite a flat bread! But dont work the dough to much after the first fermentation, if you do, you will destroy the glutenbindings created during that fermentation.

The reward of making own bread is a home that smells like heaven, a bread that tastes so good that you just keep eating, and the satisfaction of having done something basic but yet so important as your daily bread by yourself!!!

Don't sit there reading all the bullsh*t i'm writing.....GO! Make some bread!!!!!!!!!

The smell of fresh baked bread is intoxicating. It even made me like my first wife for a few hours each year when she would bake a loaf or two.

It is closed now but there used to be a Wonder Bread factory in Bridgeport, CT. Bridgeport is known for being a pretty rough, industrial city and the Wonder Bread was baked in one of the worst neighborhoods but when you were driving in the area that yeast aroma always made you feel nice, somehow at ease and suddenly hungry.

I love to bake bread!(simply no time now) When I lived in the woods it was a staple...and a hell of a good one. I bet few of you have ever made English Muffins...if you do, it will be a totally different experience...nothing like store bought.

I worked in a bakery for four years through highschool and made a ton of bread, I enjoy cooking and baking at home also. I can tell you though that none of my work looks a beautiful as the loaves shown in this thread. These truely look like artisinal loaves.

Nice work, and thanks for sharing the recipes.

-Moe

MMM!!! Fresh baked Bread!!!

Here we go again!

A new batch, fresh from the oven!

with butter and a nice piece of brie cheese, yummy!!

WOWWW!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by cako72

Here we go again!

A new batch, fresh from the oven!

with butter and a nice piece of brie cheese, yummy!!

Ok I just started baking bread but The results are great....I have a bread baking machine but I dont like it a lot.. I think it is a lot of work for only a small bread.. So I started to make my own the manual way a couple of weaks ago and I discovered that it only takes 15 minutes more for 2 loafs of bread..

Last week I went to a local windmill (no kidding... it is still working after more that 300 years De Larense Molen ) and got some whole weat flower.
So yesterday evening I made the dough and let it rise (the second time) in the refridgerator and this morning as I got out of bed heated up the oven and we had fresh bread for breakfast..

My recipe ( it is very simple)
1 Kg whole weat flower
20 gr dried yeast
20 gr sugar
20 gr salt
60 gr butter.
600 gr water

Just kneed it al (optinal let the sugar, some water and the yeast get started a couple of minutes) for about 15 minutes till its getting a bit elastic and let it rise for 30 minutes. kneed it again a bit and put it in the bread tin or make little buns (about 100gr) and put them in the refrigerator for the night.

Bake at 200 C for 10 minutes (the buns) or 30 for a loaf of bread.

Cant make it simpler than that...

Maarten