Author Topic: Bread (Read 11926 times)

s2srea · « **on:** September 27, 2011, 03:11:12 PM »

Hi everyone. Any bread makers here? I've made it a few times in the dutch oven, and I'm thinking I should do it more often. Plus there's nothing like filling the house with the smell of delicious bread- especially now that winter's coming up. I'm sure its cheaper in the long run too!

Here's a great recipe for no kneed bread I've used before:

http://steamykitchen.com/168-no-knead-bread-revisited.html

I love olive bread, but I have a few stalks of rosemary outside and am thinking of making rosemary olive bread this week!

Matthew · « **Reply #1 on:** September 27, 2011, 03:15:24 PM »

Homemade bread is the best kind.

We used to make *all* our own bread, but now we're busier and we get free bread every week (my wife's uncle gets free food at the church every week, and passes a bunch of it on to us. The variety of what we get changes every week, but various kinds of bread are almost always included)

So rather than waste that free bread and make our own bread (which we don't have time for), we just eat the free stuff.

But as our family gets larger, and our children become "of age" for working in the kitchen -- that might change.

BTW, we used a bread machine. We also own a nice electrical grain grinder -- we haven't used it much, but it's good for making *fresh* whole wheat bread. Whole wheat flour goes bad much more quickly than white flour, because of the oils present.

That's why most commercial whole wheat bread doesn't taste as good. They don't grind the grain and bake the bread on the same day :)

s2srea · « **Reply #2 on:** September 27, 2011, 03:22:18 PM »

Quote from: Matthew

BTW, we used a bread machine. We also own a nice electrical grain grinder -- we haven't used it much, but it's good for making *fresh* whole wheat bread. Whole wheat flour goes bad much more quickly than white flour, because of the oils present.

That's why most commercial whole wheat bread doesn't taste as good. They don't grind the grain and bake the bread on the same day :)

:scratchchin: I'm thought about a bread machine. But grinding your own flower sounds great! Sounds like theres a big difference between store-bought wheat and your own which is also very interesting. Is it done by hand?

s2srea · « **Reply #3 on:** September 27, 2011, 04:28:40 PM »

Quote from: s2srea

Quote from: Matthew
BTW, we used a bread machine. We also own a nice electrical grain grinder -- we haven't used it much, but it's good for making *fresh* whole wheat bread. Whole wheat flour goes bad much more quickly than white flour, because of the oils present.

That's why most commercial whole wheat bread doesn't taste as good. They don't grind the grain and bake the bread on the same day :)

:scratchchin: I'm thought about a bread machine. But grinding your own flower sounds great! Sounds like theres a big difference between store-bought wheat and your own which is also very interesting. Is it done by hand?

I just realized it said "electric"

aquinasnmore · « **Reply #4 on:** September 27, 2011, 04:35:50 PM »

My mom has an electric grinder which she uses to grind whole wheat flower. We use a Bosch mixer which can handle up to 5 POUNDS of flower at a time - perfect for a family our size.

You can't beat the taste of hot bread with melted butter.