Ridiculous bread making question!

19lottie82

the lorainne pascale (home cooking made easy?) has quite a few good bread recipes in it. including one for cheese ham and chive bread. it doesn't have any yeast so it doesn't have to rise. it's almost like a soda bread, perfect with soup

euronorris

They do look great! Mmmm. I'm hungry now!

emsywoo123

euronorris wrote: »

They do look great! Mmmm. I'm hungry now!

I just ate 2. How bad is that. I can't make them again!!

laracroft2707

emsywoo123 wrote: »

I just ate 2. How bad is that. I can't make them again!!

Yes, that is usually a problem when making your own bread

Swan_2

if you're interested, the Old Style Forum has a lot of good tips & advice about breadmaking & they're a friendly & helpful lot if you've any questions

a search there for threads with bread in the title shows these

one of my favourites threads is Adventures with bread dough

andygb

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

When you put the bread in, the first thing it does before it kills the yeast is to expand. If you haven't slashed it, then it can't expand.

Slash slash slash. It's the only way.

Use razor blades and a stirrer from a coffee shop to mount it on.

I have tried both methods over the last five years, and failing to slash the bread never results in the bread failing to rise or expand. You can however make the bread collapse if you slash it after the second proving, particularly with a slightly wet mix (they tend to rise better and more quickly). As for a good crust, that is something which I never have a problem with, in fact I can never get a softer bread even when I try.
If you are going to slash the bread, an ordinary knife will not do, you have to use a razor blade (or craft knife/scalpel) as Sambucus suggests.

Swan_2

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Use razor blades and a stirrer from a coffee shop to mount it on.

that's what I use, I almost bought an expensive French lame until I heard the tip about the coffee stirrers

you have to keep it well out of the way of 'chance encounters' though!

emsywoo123

andygb wrote: »

If you are going to slash the bread, an ordinary knife will not do, you have to use a razor blade (or craft knife/scalpel) as Sambucus suggests.

Can you tell I didn't have one

emsywoo123

Swan wrote: »

if you're interested, the Old Style Forum has a lot of good tips & advice about breadmaking & they're a friendly & helpful lot if you've any questions

a search there for threads with bread in the title shows these

one of my favourites threads is Adventures with bread dough

Well yes I considered there, but I am nervous, and as this is my usual stomping ground, I thought I'd recognise some names

But there I shall head!

Swan_2

emsywoo123 wrote: »

I just ate 2. How bad is that. I can't make them again!!

well done

my first attempt at making bread was rolls, they were like mini cannonballs, no-one could even eat one never mind two :rotfl: