11-28-2009, 04:17 AM
It is impossible to consider that a loaf of home baked bread would ever last 3 days in our house!
I know the no knead breads may not be quite up to the level of some traditional kneaded recipes, but it is a way that someone who really doesn't have much time can bake bread at home that is still far better than any store bought bread available here. I can do advance planning and start my bread 12-24 hours before I bake it, I just can't spare many hours in between. Right now I am starting the next batch as soon as I clear out the bowl for the last rise before baking. The only thing close to a failure has been the whole wheat/rye that didn't rise much in the oven, but sure had good texture and flavor.
I spent much of my college years up to my elbows in dough at various restaurants and pizzerias, and for the effort involved I am happy with the no knead breads as an easy way to get decent bread on my table. This is probably how the women on my mother's side of the family who were flax, wheat and rye farmers in eastern Europe made their bread, they really didn't have that much time to put into it (my mother's great grandmother and her daughters routinely fed 20-30 people 3 meals a day during planting and harvest), but they sure had the daily routine down.
Carol
I know the no knead breads may not be quite up to the level of some traditional kneaded recipes, but it is a way that someone who really doesn't have much time can bake bread at home that is still far better than any store bought bread available here. I can do advance planning and start my bread 12-24 hours before I bake it, I just can't spare many hours in between. Right now I am starting the next batch as soon as I clear out the bowl for the last rise before baking. The only thing close to a failure has been the whole wheat/rye that didn't rise much in the oven, but sure had good texture and flavor.
I spent much of my college years up to my elbows in dough at various restaurants and pizzerias, and for the effort involved I am happy with the no knead breads as an easy way to get decent bread on my table. This is probably how the women on my mother's side of the family who were flax, wheat and rye farmers in eastern Europe made their bread, they really didn't have that much time to put into it (my mother's great grandmother and her daughters routinely fed 20-30 people 3 meals a day during planting and harvest), but they sure had the daily routine down.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb