Bread Making

Bread making is something that I've recently gained an interest in. Of course, my mom owns a bread maker and I've made bread in it a few times, but I had never made bread without the use of a bread maker until I came across a spectacular baguette recipe on allrecipes.com. You can find the recipe here:http://allrecipes.com/recipe/french-baguettes/There's just something about being able to make a loaf of bread from ingredients that don't resemble a loaf of bread at all that I find really appealing; in that way it's unlike cooking most other things.

My sister recently renewed my interest in bread making when she made a lovely Oatmeal Molasses bread recipe from the cookbook Earth to Table. You can actually view a blog post about it at the following link, if you're interested: http://jennyraggedrobin.blogspot.com/2011/07/oatmeal-molasses-bread.html


My latest adventure with making bread involved Laura Calder's Miracle Boule (that's it in the pictures) from her book French Taste. It's called a boule because of its ball-like shape, and it ended up having a nice, chewy texture with a lot of air bubbles in the middle. The recipe was really simple, consisting of nothing more than flour, yeast, salt, and water, which makes it a little bit healthier than other breads, because it doesn't have any sugar. All I had to do was mix all of the ingredients, and then leave it to sit for 12 hours. Once that time was up I had to shape the dough in to a ball, and leave it to rise for another 2 hours. After that, it went into a dutch oven and baked in the oven. Needless to say, I was really impressed by the bread and would highly recommend it to anyone. Because of this, here's a link to the recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.ca/recipes/recipe.html?dishid=9041.