January 26, 2016 - 6:11am
New to breadmaking
Good morning
Just wanted to say hello and I just ordered a bread machine from Amazon and I am looking forward to it coming. I love fresh baked bread especially hard crust on the outside and soft on the inside. That is the reason I decided to order the bread machine.
Look forward to searching the site and learning
Roger
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with a bread machine since the temperatures they bake at are so low. To get the rust you want you might have to f=take the dough out of the machine right before it starts to bake and finish it in the oven. Still, if fresh baked yeast bread is what you want then a bread maker is hard to beat.
Welcome and Happy baking
Thank you very much for the reply. Yes I think the freshly baked bread out of the machine would be more than fine for me looking forward to trying it. At special situations I will definitely try taking it out and breaking it in the oven also.
Roger
Roger.. the truth is that to the uninitiated, it's daunting to think that you can make fantastic bread. The truth is that your potential to make true artisan bread is only limited by your decision to try. Enjoy the bread machine. You'll make a fine loaf. You and your family/friends will enjoy it. And if you keep at it, you'll stretch beyond it and start making bread in a dutch oven (ie; a heavy cast iron pot with a lid) in the oven. And before you know it, you'll look over at the dust collecting on the bread machine, wondering who can I give that away too. But as with all things, it's a journey. A long road we're all wondering along together with flour dusted hands - a few further ahead, a few just behind. Enjoy it.. and don't fear the dough.. bake happy
Thank you very much for the encouragement. I know I will be enjoying my bread machine. I also will eventually try doing other things like you mentioned never heard of making bread in a Dutch oven or a cast iron pan. That sounds very interesting wonder if there's any videos on it.
Talk later Roger
I use both a bread machine and oven baking depending on the type of breading want to bake.
Some loaves I will use the bread machine to both mix, knead and bake. Or I can use it just on the dough setting, to mix, knead and rise, then remove it and bake in the oven
The " no knead" bread that you bake in a cast iron pot on high heat, produces a hard crust bread.
The recipe is very easy.
3 cups of AP flour (I use King Arthur) 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon of dry yeast. Mix above with 1 1/2 cup room temp water. Cover with plastic wrap and leave overnight.
Next morning, preheat oven and pot at 450 degrees, takes about 40 mins until pot is hot enough.
Your dough will have risen and have small bubbles.
Use rubber spatula to bring dough out of bowl onto a floured surface such as board or counter. Dough is sticky, so use flour on your hands or dough scraper. I gently make the dough a little flat and then fold it like an envelope and shape into a ball. No need to overwork it.
Place the dough ball on a piece of parchment paper. Place into hot pot ( use heavy mitts, the pot is really hot)
Bake at 450 for 30 mins with lid on, remove lid and cook 10 to 15 with lid off.
You'll have a beautiful loaf of bread.
For variations, you can add 1 cup of raisins, 5 tsp cinnamon and 2 Tbls of sugar to flour mixture before you add the water. Or add orange zest and dried cranberries 2tbsp sugar.
Pinterest has the recipe just type in " no knead bread"