September 27, 2007 - 5:14am
An ode to weird bread
A Really Crappy Poem
By JMonkey
Hungry? Famished? Almost dead?
Jonesing for a hunk of bread?
Never fear, walk down the hall
To the machine that vends it all.
You'll find there bread in a can,
So long as you live in Japan.
Here's a link to the article.
How funny! You know Japan has a good reputation regarding bread--apparently the french taught their methods to Japan a long time ago, and even Calvel mentions in his book that they understood how to make truly french bread. I've also seen Japanese stamps with baguettes on them, which I thought was strange until I looked into it.
But this? I don't think Calvel would approve :)
As I browse and search for bread so lean
I come across this bread machine
The cans are gleaming and look so tasty
I wonder if I'll become a pastry!
Next!
Eric
Now I'm wondering who will be the first to post a picture of bread baking in a soup can. I think if you cut of the top of the can off with one of those side cutting can openers you replace the lid, let a little piece of dough rise, then throw it in the oven with something on top of the can to hold down the lid. Kind of a single serving pullman pan.
demegrad
http://www.demegrad.blogspot.com
I believe I saw a recipe on the foodtv network of a single serving cake baked in a soup can. I like the novelty of cooking in cans but always wonder what happens to the soldering components as they heat up in the oven or campfire..
SD Baker
LOL! I showed this to DH, who reports that he remembers seeing a full loaf of Mrs. Baird's bread sold in a can, probably in the 50's.
And there's always the lunar landing module...
See complete article here.. http://www.flakmag.com/misc/bmbread.html
They said today it could be done
a can of bread for thoughts of one.
In soup can hidden and tucked away
a thousand years later to make a say.
The archeologists thought it strange
that bread from a can had never changed.
(bow and hand gesture for the next please....)
Mini O
Would I could retaliate,
but I'm sleepy and sedate.
When I first learned bakin',
the right book was Clayt'n.
Bread Became Art,
graduation to Peter Reinhart.
A tenacious, persistent teaser,
made me look at Maggie Glezer.
When finally I'm dead,
just bury me in bread.
A dough arose in Tokyo,
And stretched and yawned
--it was near dawn--
A yen to take a shower, sushi
Stepped into the flour;
When she was done
The morning sun
Was rising in the yeast;
A nut was tucked behind each ear,
A berry in her hair--
"Well, this should tame the beast", she thought,
And sat, not in a chair, but
In a can--not soup, or beer, or Spam--uh,
This was Japanadama.
A man from Singapore
Loved bread to the core
He baked bread by the dozen
Starting in a cold oven
This one's for you, Al Gore
oh that is fantastic, I have a friend who is going to Tokyo next week....I will see if she can find some.
Harvest proof
Mini O
Mini O, did you end up baking that dough in the can? I just baked some of the Light Wheat from BBA, and threw about 175 grams of dough in a can. It is by far some of the weirdest bread I've ever come across, might be a decent way to bake bread while camping though, there always seems to be enough soup cans around. It literally has NO crust, the bread it self was good though. I put a rock onto of the lid of the can but the bread seemed to creep out a little while expanding in the oven.
litewheatbreadinoven
canbread
demegrad
http://www.demegrad.blogspot.com
and it stuck so bad, I didn't get it out whole! (Congratulations!) I smeared it with garlic butter and ate it with butter running down my wrists. It never had a chance to cool, poor thing. I had cut both ends out of the can and laid it on the side to bake with the dough expanding out both ends. (I was temped to add a metal drawer grip to the can, "the ultimate bread carry case") Many years ago, one could buy forms for round loaves that worked on the same principal, I believe they were glass so they would brown better. Sandwiches for the "bridge club." Anyone remember those? Not too practical I guess....
Mini O
I still see those round pans online, including some in shapes - hearts, card suits, etc. But I've only seen metal ones.
I am so tempted to do that. Only use the big 28 oz soup cans.
I had a step mother once upon a time who made her whole wheat bread in coffee cans. It was terrible and flavorless, but that was not the fault of the cans I am certain. It was actually one of those formative moments that started me on a life long bread baking "thing". Thinking I can certainly make better bread than that can stuff =)