Artisan Bread Bakers

[BEEDEE]

So I'm baking today and thinking - are there any other bread bakers on XMTS that would be interested in setting up a social group to share ideas/recipes etc?

Today's bake is four challah loaves for our local Jewish Temple. Will be followed by a batch of Scotch Bap buns for a dinner tomorrow night.

I have a bread blog at: http://farmhousebakery.blogspot.com/

Brian

[vmac3205]

Hi Brian,

My favorite is the Scottish bread Struan. One of these years Captmac is going to finish my wood-fired outdoor oven. I love working with yeast doughs, and no, I have NEVER owned a bread maching. There is no substitute for being Kneaded.

Victoria

[BEEDEE]

Hi Brian,

My favorite is the Scottish bread Struan. One of these years Captmac is going to finish my wood-fired outdoor oven. I love working with yeast doughs, and no, I have NEVER owned a bread maching. There is no substitute for being Kneaded.

Victoria

Victoria - this is one of my favorites too. Can't share the recipe, but I was a tester for Peter Reinhart's new book and there will be a fantastic Struan recipe in it. Out this fall.

Brian

[vmac3205]

Hmmmmm,
I'll get my recipe when I get home and post it. It may be very close to yours.

[Old Hippie]

So I'm baking today and thinking - are there any other bread bakers on XMTS that would be interested in setting up a social group to share ideas/recipes etc?

Depending on the season, I tend to bake about every two weeks. A couple of good loaves of bread will last us that long, as we tend to only eat bread at breakfast.

Last weekend I managed to fit a batch of whole-wheat potato bread, a semolina torpedo, a batch of mamoul, and brioche around farm work. While I had the grinder set up to grind 1.5 kg of Red Fife for the potato bread, I also ground up a kilogramme of emmer for pasta.

I'd be up for a group or even just an occasional thread here on the OT forum. I'm always looking for new bread/baking recipes.

:ootd:

[Pleater]

Ah, this is one I'll have to stay well clear of - I used to make bread, and see it vanish away in no time at all - with the children at home - but these days I just can't eat concentrated carbohydrates.

Well, I could eat them, but have to be prepared to put on weight, which I am not.

Perhaps if I had to go out into the woods, drag back the firewood, chop it, stack it, then plough the land, sow it, reap the harvest, carry it home on my back then thresh and grind the corn, etc etc, then perhaps I would be able to eat bread again.

Sigh.

It would be worth it though.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Bugbear]

EEEK! Pleater's got an axe!

Anyway, I used to make my own bread, especially sour dough, but I don't know that I would be able to contribute much.

[Pleater]

Only a small one, don't panic about the axe. At my height it almost counts as a traditional accessory.

It is the circular saw that you should panic about.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Old Hippie]

Perhaps if I had to go out into the woods, drag back the firewood, chop it, stack it, then plough the land, sow it, reap the harvest, carry it home on my back then thresh and grind the corn, etc etc, then perhaps I would be able to eat bread again.

We can help you out with that. Or rather, you can help us out.

I have long-term plans to build an outdoor cooking pavilion which would include gas hookups for the burners we use canning, a gas-fired wok stand, and a Mongolian grill or maybe just a flat grill. I'd also like a central raised hearth for Dutch Ovens, and a nice brick oven.

Probably wouldn't be a wood-fired brick oven, though. All I get around here is pine.

In the summer I try to keep as much heat as possible outside where it belongs. We have the odd gathering -- sometimes quite odd -- that requires pancakes, eggs and hashbrowns for a crowd.

[Colonel MacNeal]

Is there a Scottish version of Irish Soda-Bread? My charity, the Ulster Project, sells it every year at the Dallas Irish Fest.