SUNFLOWER SEED BREAKFAST LOAF

Today made sunflower seed breakfast loaf from the cookbook ABin5 page 217 and 218. I made one half of a recipe and baked all if it in one dish after the two hour rest and the 40 minutes in the baking dish.

This dough was easy to shape after the two hour rest.

I put the dough in a greased glass dish 5 1/2" x 6 3/4"

What a wonderful rise in the oven!!!



Baked up beautiful!!!



Slices measured 4 1/2" x 6" wide



Oh my the taste was heaven!!!

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Windmill Makes Stone Ground Wheat Flour

Ever wonder how STONE GROUND FLOUR WAS/IS MADE by a windmill?






This is the bag they put the flour in to sell in the store.

This is a close up of the wood covered stones where the berries are ground.

Here are the stones without the wood.

Here are small stones to show you what the big stones looks like when put together to grind the flour.

Bags of wheat.

The windmill is huge as you can tell by the two people standing by it.

And of course there were dutch dancers by the windmill.

Bread made with this flour and my milled white wheat and rye was from ABin5 page 58.
My small loaf for two of stone ground flour with added fresh ground rye flour and lots of seeds. In this small loaf size 4x6 is filled with 1 tablespoon each of seed ground in mini grinder for better flavor: flax, fennel, caraway and 1 tablespoon each of whole sunflower and walnuts!!!




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Soft American-Style White Bread with SEEDS

I made soft American-Style white bread in abin5 page 204 with a different twist on the recipe.

For 1 big loaf I reduced the recipe in 1/2 and then changed the flour to fresh ground white wheat and half recipe would have been 3 1/2 cups flour but I used only 2 3/4 cups. Then fresh ground seeds(not completely to powder). About a tablespoon of each = Dill, poppy, sunflower nuts, flax seed, fennel, caraway seed, sesame, and not ground but pieces of walnuts.

Let rise for 2 hours.



Used fresh dough and put in greased bread pan and let rise 40 minutes.


Brushed to top of the loaf with melted butter and poked the top with toothpick instead of slashing the top.

Baked in the oven 350 degrees for 45 minutes and tested the bread for 200 degrees before taking out of the oven.


I let the bread cool before slicing and entering my mouth!!! LOL This bread was sooooooooooooooo gooooooooooooooooood!!!

Here is the crumb and close up of seeds!



Pass the napkins please!!!


HOPE THIS PICTURE BROUGHT YOU SMILE!!!



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Brioche a Tete

Brioche dough on page 189 in ABin5. Then followed the instructions on page 191 for Brioche a Tete with the change from beautiful fluted pan to a copper jello mold that holds 3 1/2 cups. Turned out great and the finished appearance hubby said looks like hernia bread!!!







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Cane Brotform style bread proofing basket

Also known as a banneton, it is a favorite of artisan bakers for raising their bread dough. The basket coils provide a beautiful shape and decor for a traditional hearth loaf look.

This basket is exceptionally well made in Europe of the highest quality natural materials.
Measures 8 ¾ inches in diameter across the top and is designed for a 1 ½ lb. loaf.



Dust the basket with flour and the risen dough drops easily onto your baking surface.
I used 1 pound and 2 ounces of dough. You put the rounded side down or the top down.

I made Eastern European Potato-Rye Bread on page 120-21 in ABin5 book.





I used a serrated knife to split the top of the dough.





I guess I put too much flour in the basket because flour is pretty heavy here but anyway you get the idea!!!

To clean your Brotform, rinse it out with hot water with your faucet in spray mode. Shake off excess water and place upside down over still warm oven to dry quickly. Don't use soap.

Now an experiment for fun!!!

Isn't this a pretty hat?



Now for the inside of the hat and you know where I am going with this don't you?



Yup the dough goes in the hat!!!



The finished baked bread..............with too much flour again.........but fun experiment!!!



The other bread in the photo was done in a wicker basket.





I did not slash the top of either bread or poke the tops with toothpick.

This was the dough before going into the oven.



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Show off your bread in a seamless background photo box CHEAP!!!

Having any trouble photographing your bread with stuff showing up in the background unwanted?

Simple solution and very reasonable price. No holes or tools required!!! Use a transparent tub and if in a low light situation you can shine a light through the top of the tub.

Bend an old fashion wire hanger so it will push in the back of the tub and stay in place.

Hang any cloth, table runner, use your imagination here. Drape part of the cloth beyond the bottom edge of the tub. Works easiest on the edge of the counter or table.

If you need to slant the bread toward the camera just put a small something under your bread to raise it up in the back.

This tub measures 22" long x 14" wide and 8 1/2" deep.





This is so easy to take out to photograph and put away when done.

Here is an example of photographing bread with your tub box and table runner.

This is pumpernickel bread in ABin5 on page 67-68 with a few changes. I don't like a strong coffee taste so I made weak coffee. 1 cup water and 1/2 teaspoon coffee ground. Boiled it on the stove in a sauce pan. Poured the coffee through a coffee filter into a measure cup and added enough water to make it 1 cup. Used this in place of 1 of the three cups of water in the recipe.

Used two tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder instead of the 1 1/2 tablespoons. I made sure the cocoa was not processed with alkali so I get the benefits from the cocoa.

The recipe called for caramel color and so I used red and green food coloring. More green than red.

Used a bread pan that measures 10 1/2" x 4" and 2 3/4" high. Put 1 pound 11 ounces of dough in the pan after first rise. Nice tea size slices of bread from this pan. The bread had nice crumb also!!! If you notice I didn't slash the top of the bread because for tea sandwiches I want a smooth top so just used a toothpick and poked 4 holes in the top of the bread.

Did not use water in pan or a stone either.






The holes in the top of the bread look big but that is because I poked the temp gauge in the top to check when done.

This bread is excellent for toast!!! Besides tea sandwiches.

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Healthy Wheat Bread

Not happy after looking in the mirror in the nude. I remembered someone saying we are what we eat. I stopped buying cottage cheese!!! Bought a treadmill and using it..........

And eating better..............made the Master Wheat Bread in a loaf pan but didn't slash the top like they said on page 62. Instead poked the top with a toothpick for a smooth top and no seeds. Also I used bread flour for the all purpose and added sugar and oil.




Here is the crumb and the slice measures 5 inches tall.




In case you missed Cathy Warner The BBD#29 Round up on May 5. I did some baking in clay pots. I have a small chicken and it makes a small boule for two about 5 small slices. Just spray oil on the inside of the bottom and cover and preheat. When preheated just drop the dough in the bottom and cover and cook 30 minutes or 190-200 degrees. This chicken measures 4 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches.



I was busy getting ready for the road and on the road to Michigan when everyone made this in the HBin5 book. The dough I decided to make was from ABin5 page 134 olive oil dough with some changes where the water was 2 3/4 cups. I did 2 cups water and 3/4 cup mild pepper juice and added 10 pepper rings and a 6 oz can of drained olives. I diced up the peppers and olives and added to the dough for the first rise.



When the dough went in the chicken base I did add some flour and slashed the top of the dough before baking.




This dough makes wonderful pizza and didn't have time to take a picture. Just pigged out!!!

Makes great toast for eggs.

This clay pot that measures 12 x 8. It was made in W. Germany. I put my left over dough on parchment paper for toast in this pot.

















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