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It's really easy to get all gung-ho excited about this bread... there is something very luxurious about working the chocolatey, creamy spread into the supple but deceivingly wholesome dough!
Ironically, for all the delicious aromas that fill the kitchen as this bread becomes reality, the finished loaf is not cloyingly sweet. In fact, it's hardly sweet at all - there is more of a nutty, earthy rich flavour to it reminiscent of a good pumpernickel that is made stronger if you let the dough proof overnight in the fridge for it's first rise. Of course, it would still make fantastic peanut butter and Nutella sandwiches (oh yes, I said it!), but I don't think it would be out of place with some ham and cranberry mustard either.
Bread stamps with religious symbols (Egypt, c. 1100-1200) at the British Museum in London, United Kingdom.
Bead stamps have been around since the Roman era and were used for a variety of purposes including as a mark of ownership when baking dough in a communal oven, as a sort of brand name used by professional bakers or as mark of quality.
Bread-stamping sometimes also had a religious background, e.g. marking bread as kosher in Judaism (often using a stamp depicting a menorah). In both Coptic and Greek Orthodox Christianity, stamps were also used to mark communion bread. Whether the Star of David and the fish/ichthys on these stamps from Fatamid Egypt point to such a use or just the faith of their owners remains unclear.
According to the description at the museum, the bottom stamp's Arabic inscription can be translated as "eat with enjoyment", resembling the slogans used on our modern day food packaging.
A young Egyptian boy delivering fresh bread along Cairo's busy thoroughfares manages to smile as we pass by.
A vintage Sunbeam Bread sign adorning the storm door of a former general store (now a stained glass studio) in Pilot Mound, Minnesota.
Bread and butter pickles recipe is right here!
www.vietworldkitchen.com/blog/2011/06/bread-and-butter-pi...
...last night I shaped two sourdough baguettes and put them in the oven under greased plastic wrap to rise. Then I forgot about them and went to bed.
When I got up for a glass of water a little before 6 this morning, I remembered them with shock. They had risen and run together and then begun to sink again. The plastic wrap stuck, as it always does. When I peeled it off, there was nothing to stop all the air from rushing out and totally flattening the dough. Parts of it had not been under the plastic and so were too dried out for me to knead the dough again.
Over-proofing is no laughing matter!
If I hadn't forgotten about them and had baked them when I'd intended to, I think they would have come out creditably -- I think I'm getting a handle on kneading and baking without a recipe. So when I got up a few hours later, I thought, "Eh, fuck it," and threw the mess in the oven anyway.
The result is like an English muffin on the inside, soft with lots of regular holes, and a crispy crust on the outside. (The thing crackled merrily while it was cooling.)
Even though it's made of white flour and I'm on a bit of a low carb diet, I tried some with butter anyway and it's really good: only mildly sour (even in spite of the long rise time). It's kind of like some exotic flat bread, except it's not: it's an ugly baking disaster that just happens to be edible!
I adapted the Peasant Loaf recipe by adding 1/2 cup of multigrain cereal, 1 cup of whole wheat flour and reducing the unbleached flour to 5 cups.
Anadama bread is enhanced by a subtle molasses flavor and works as a sandwich bread or lightly toasted with a bit of butter!
From The Bread Bakers Apprentice.
www.sporkorfoon.com/spork_or_a_foon/2009/05/bba-challenge...
Found some apples under and on some trees - and then got some as a present... and fresh bread too.. and nettle tea :-)
How to drink nettle tea? Pure?
I walk a couple of miles to buy bread from this guy who sells bread from the trunk of his 1975 Volkswagen beetle at the Texaco in Challenge Ibadan
sweet potato rolls, inspired by dbcurrie's bread on SE. I was going to make small buns into flowers, but I couldn't help making them into hedgehogs. I love animal breads.