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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 07:14:16 AM
I LOVE bread! I could live on bread, I think. Even though in the Bible it says I couldn't. I could try, though. I like hard breads so much. And with all kinds of goodies in them, too. I bought some Kalamata Olive bread yesterday and have already eaten half of it myself. I don't want to share it with anyone. I love sourdough, too. I make bacon and tomato sandwiches on sourdough and they are just way too good. I make whole wheat bread and I like it but I just love the harder breads.
I am addicted to bread. There. I confess. I feel better now that someone else knows about this. Now I need to find a group of bread-a-holics to join.
Kris
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| ZenGoddess |
Posted - Aug 28 2009 : 8:12:18 PM
All this has made me hungry too ! I love wheat breads ,I don't eat white. They have to be moist not crumbly. A meal is not a meal till the homemade bread is on the table. I have " The wooden Spoon" Bread Book by Marilyn M. Moore and it has over 250 recipes and secrets in it. Its fun to try different ones. Laurie your french bread looks so Yummy !!!
Hugs,
Zens Goddess
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| laurzgot |
Posted - Aug 28 2009 : 6:50:00 PM
I make homemade tortillas all the time when we have tacos or beans ( that I cook all day long). I make everthing from scratch. I don't have a tortilla press so I roll them out. I won't by store bought.
Laurie
suburban countrygirl at heart |
| Bonnie Ellis |
Posted - Aug 28 2009 : 6:10:07 PM
I'm in with you gals. Bread is at the top of the best foods list. I love the bread (any kind) baked in the wood stove. The smell puts on 50 pounds lol.
Bonnie
grandmother and orphan farmgirl |
| HeatherAnn |
Posted - Aug 28 2009 : 4:41:17 PM
oh! forgot one secret thing!
I add 2 Tablespoons olive oil to the recipe when I add in the criso. otherwise they are pretty dry, but this helps a whole lot
Heather Ann
Apartment Farmgirl
"You got to look at all the good on one side and all the bad on the other and say 'Well, alright then.'" - Aunt Eller, Oklahoma
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| HeatherAnn |
Posted - Aug 28 2009 : 4:34:39 PM
ok! Tortilla Recipe:
from the Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook Copyright 1980
Note: I use Butter Flavored Crisco and this makes them SO amazing!
4.5 cups flour
0.5 cups lard (this is where I substitute that butter flavored crisco)
1 cup warm water
2 teaspoons salt
Directions:
1. In bowl mix 4 cups flour with 2 teaspoons salt; cut in lard until blended. Add one cup warm water; mix well. Turn dough onto floured surface; knead until smooth, about 3 minutes, adding more flour if needed.
3. Divid dough into 20 peices (this will make 20 taco sized tortillas or 10 pieces for 10 burrito size tortillas); cover. On floured surface with rolling pin, roll one dough peice into 5-6 inch circle (or for burrito sized tortillas roll into 10 inch circles) In ungreased 12-inch skillet over medium high heat, cook tortilla 1 minute until brown specks appear; turn, cook 30 seconds. Place between sheets of foil; keep warm. Repeat with rest of pieces.
Note: I had to fool around with this recipe and the pan I was using to get a well cooked tortilla, but besides the burnt one they all tasted amazing! good luck! if you have any questions about it, I might be able to help. so gimme a shout!
Heather Ann
Apartment Farmgirl
"You got to look at all the good on one side and all the bad on the other and say 'Well, alright then.'" - Aunt Eller, Oklahoma
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| tziporra |
Posted - Aug 28 2009 : 4:31:01 PM
I'm expecting my fourth baby, and I am craving bread something crazy!
This week I made english muffins, potato foccacia, hot dog buns, pizza & breadsticks, and cinnamon rolls. Oh, and we are having homemade challah with dinner tonight, but that's from the freezer.
Best,
Tzi |
| southerncrossgirl |
Posted - Aug 28 2009 : 2:53:47 PM
Heather, please share your recipe. I would love to make some. Grandkids love them too!
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Aug 28 2009 : 10:23:07 AM
Jen ,as long as you use organic flour I think it'll be ok. Julie (Willowtree?) knows so much about that. You could ask her. I hope you try it. I am going to wait a few more months til it gets cooler to start mine again.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Aug 28 2009 : 10:20:45 AM
Heather, at church there are alot of us that make the "whole wheat ground from wheat berries" cult. We are seriously called the bread cult. We are always talking about our bread and what we made and how we made it. When we first got started with this method and raising chickens and goats and cows and all things farm we had a mother-daughter banquet with awards and one of them was the "Little House on the Prarie" award. Me and 3 others got it. It was too funny, but what an honor! So we are quite serious about this bread business.
And some have the tortilla makers, too. The little thing that presses the dough and cooks it. I would love to have one. One day I will. Maybe I should ask for that for Christmas this year. I would love your recipe. I have got to make the chevre cheese soon, too. I have the cheese press and all the stuff to make it. I might just have to do that in the next few days because I have plenty of milk right now. And I found another easy cheese recipe last night I'm going to try this weekend, too.
Happy bread baking, ya'll!
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| HeatherAnn |
Posted - Aug 28 2009 : 10:01:52 AM
by the way has anyone tried making home made tortillas? I could post the resipe I've been using. They are AMAZING! And I'm all for saving money, especially in the kitchen where so, SO much can be saved! I found that home made tortillas, plain old black beans cooked at home, not from a can, and a bit of cheese make awesome little lunch tacos. Another great cheap alternative is home fried potatoes instead of black beans. With the homemade tortillas, I was eating these tacos everyday for lunch for quite some time, till I got too pregnant to be standing in the kitchen that long. And I had tried them with store bought tortillas and they are just so, so boring in comparison! anyone else do any homemade tortillas?
Heather Ann
Apartment Farmgirl
"You got to look at all the good on one side and all the bad on the other and say 'Well, alright then.'" - Aunt Eller, Oklahoma
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| HeatherAnn |
Posted - Aug 28 2009 : 09:57:52 AM
I'm not so much of a bread-a-holic. but my husband totally is. he could live on garlic bread. but i wanted to say that my husband was raised on purified water because the tap water was pretty revolting and their family didn't have the money for sodas and stuff. my family, however, did and we drank everything but water! so when we met he was a professed bottled water snob. he wont drink arrowhead unless he is almost dehydrated and there is nothing else. he's funny. and now, after 6 years, he has me doing the same thing! we call ourselves water snobs. some 'water' is just and ansult to H2O, I'm telling you.
and reading this and how some of you gals can't eat cheap store bought bread, I thought, they are the bread snobs to us being water snobs! It's not a bad thing, it just means you know your stuff. And on Sunday I'm going to try the cinnamon rolls recipe with my Sourdough starter, it'll be my first recipe! The only bread I've ever made other than that is Jewish Sabbath day egg bread. It was heavy and amazing and had this thick hard crust and I glazed it with egg and braided it. It was so beautiful it didn't look real! my husband adored it and requested that I make it EVERY Sunday, but boy oh boy did it take a long time with all that kneading and waiting and rising and more kneading and braiding. and then it was so thick it lasted us almost two weeks! it was phenomenal with a bit of butter though.
so, I am currently a confessed water snob. but, I'm a wee bit worried that like tap water, I'll be ruined for store bought bread forever, thanks to MaryJanes Farm! (I'm excited, I'd love to by known by my family and friends as the lady with a fresh loaf on her table every night!)
Heather Ann
Apartment Farmgirl
"You got to look at all the good on one side and all the bad on the other and say 'Well, alright then.'" - Aunt Eller, Oklahoma
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| laurzgot |
Posted - Aug 28 2009 : 08:17:29 AM
Gena, I just use Gold Medal white flour. I was so busy yesterday did't get onto getting a post out. I made two loaves of the French bread. Went to go pick up gran daughter at pre-school and hubby ate half of one loaf like in the thirty minutes I was gone.
Laurie
suburban countrygirl at heart |
| FL_farmgirl |
Posted - Aug 27 2009 : 05:05:31 AM
I looked up the sourdough instructions...looks soooo easy. Definitely gonna give it a try. Anyone have a preference to flour brands? Specifically for bread making. I like King Arther Bread Flour myself, but more often than not (due to finances) I have to stick with plain old store brands. The store brands seem to make a heavier loaf, and not in a good way. |
| southerncrossgirl |
Posted - Aug 26 2009 : 12:27:47 PM
Laurie, Do I need to use any special type of flour?
I can just smell it now!!
"A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes"==Cinderella |
| Julia |
Posted - Aug 26 2009 : 11:06:43 AM
You crack me up Kristin! I too am a bread-a-holic, and proud of it. If it is fresh baked, watch out!!!!
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Aug 26 2009 : 08:30:02 AM
Hey Jen. Go to the Bread the MJ way at the top of the farm kitchen thread. Tells all about sour dough and how to get started. My hubby was raised on bread, too. He has to have bread in his left hand when he eats. Sometimes we don't have any and he just looks so pitiful. Can't hardly figure out how to do it without bread. Poor guy. So I always try to have some kind of bread for him. But MJ's sour dough is great and pretty easy to do.
Thanks for the recipe, Laurie. It does look easy and good.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| southerncrossgirl |
Posted - Aug 26 2009 : 06:38:49 AM
Laurie, thanks for you recipe.
Julie, I would love your recipe also. I will try them both!
"A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes"==Cinderella |
| FL_farmgirl |
Posted - Aug 26 2009 : 06:34:49 AM
I hear ya! I was raised by a granny who though no dinner was complete without some kind of bread...she once forgot to make bread that day, and supper was ready...she made us all wait until she ran down to the corner store (still took almost 45 minutes!lol) and buy a loaf of Merita...my Papa was ticked that he had to wait for his dinner...but Granny got her bread. (even if it was store bought)
I've inherited her love of baking. One thing though, I've never been able to make sourdough for some reason...it's been a while since I've tried. Anyone have a good starter recipe and could walk me through replenishing it, etc...
Jen |
| laurzgot |
Posted - Aug 25 2009 : 5:51:50 PM
Easy French Bread:
1/4 cup warm water
1 pkg. yeast (I use active dry)
2 cups hot water (instead of milk)
2 tsp. salt
2 tblsp. sugar
6-6/12 cups flour
I omit the 2 tblsp. of butter but add if you want a regular loaf of bread. Use milk instead of the water.
Dissolve yeast in warm water. Add hot water, salt and sugar. Stir until well belended.
Stir in 3 cups flour one at a time. Add 4th cup and beat with wooden spoon until smooth and elastic. You can use a mixer if you have dough hooks. Add 5th cup to make a stiff dough.
6th cup of flour knead into dough on a board or counter until dough does not stick.
Let rise until almost double in size I just clean out the same bowl
Punch down and shape into 2 oblong loaves on a greased cookie sheet.
Brush with an eggwhite wash
Cut slits on top
Bake @400 with a shallow pan of hot water in oven bottom- until crusty and brown.
About 40 minutes
Enjoy
Laurie
suburban countrygirl at heart |
| forgetmenot |
Posted - Aug 25 2009 : 12:57:31 PM
Maybe you ladies should have a "bread board" to post your recipies to. Anyway, you are making me hungry, and I am not a breadaholic. ;)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the belief that something is more important than fear." Ambrose Red Moon |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Aug 25 2009 : 12:13:43 PM
That does sounds so good. And if it's easy, I'd love to have the recipe, too. We need a bread only cookbook now.
I can't wait to get a starter going again. I wish I had just put some of mine in the freezer. I will next time for sure.
Supper sounds good, Laurie! I was watching Dives, Diners and Drive Ins last night and he went to an Italian rest. in a strip mall in Arizona, I think, and that food looked too good. All homemade and yummy. I would love to have that man's job!
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| laurzgot |
Posted - Aug 25 2009 : 12:05:53 PM
Kris, I just love bread!!!! I love makeing my breads. I just love the hard kinds and my hubby prefers the soft so I do both. I think it's been to hot also to make a starter. Just have to wait till it gets a little cooler. Tomorrow I'm makeing French Bread to go with my supperof meat sauce and spaghetti. Ya'll making me hungry.
Laurie
suburban countrygirl at heart |
| paradiseplantation |
Posted - Aug 25 2009 : 10:23:29 AM
No to both questions. I have made the sourdough bread, and it's easy, but what I make is just the basic bread. And Gena, French Bread is so easy to do -- the recipe I have makes about four loaves. I'm at work today, and don't have the recipe with me, but I'm happy to share it! I'll try to remember to bring it with me next week (I'm only at work on Tuesday's) or try to get to the library this week and send it -- that is, if you want it!!!!!
from the hearts of paradise... |
| southerncrossgirl |
Posted - Aug 25 2009 : 07:52:37 AM
Yes Kris, we to are bread-a-holics.
Julie, is French bread difficult to make? I have never tried making any.
Great, one more bread to be addicted to!!!
"A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes"==Cinderella |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Aug 25 2009 : 06:11:40 AM
Oh that sounds too good, Julie. I don't want to stop either. I hope I never have to. French bread sounds so good. Is it the sour dough bread?
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
