Even though it was originally intended for Christmas, this is a bread I would gladly bake any time of year. The BBA Challenge bread for this week was Artos, Greek celebration breads, and I chose the fruited Christmas version, Christopsomos. My family adored this orange and spice flavored bread, and I can easily imagine making [...]
Honey Wheat English Muffin Bread
April 16, 2009 By 12 Comments
We’re continuing our quest to convert some of our favorite recipes to a whole grain version, and this family favorite turned out very well. I started with the Meyers family English muffin bread recipe and substituted whole wheat flour for part of the all-purpose flour, and honey for the sugar. The boys could hardly contain [...]
Yogurt Fantail Rolls
February 26, 2009 By 15 Comments
We’re on the last week of baking rolls from the February issue of Gourmet magazine, and my family thoroughly enjoyed these. The boys liked peeling them apart and Michael and I liked the flavor. The dough was soft and easy to work with, though the rise was not great, likely due to the temperature of [...]
Crusty Cornstalk Rolls
February 21, 2009 By 4 Comments
We’re playing in flour again for our Gourmet bread challenge. This week I decided to make the crusty cornstalk rolls, which are reminiscent of an epi and only slightly different in shape. An epi resembles a stalk of wheat, and a cornstalk should suggest a stalk of corn with the ears hanging on it. With [...]
Rye Onion Walnut Rolls
February 9, 2009 By 12 Comments
A good rye is one of my favorite kinds of bread, and I go head over heals for rye rolls. Put a basket of breads or rolls in front of me, and I’ll pick out the rye and whole grains first. I first started trying to make rye bread about 10 years ago, and let’s [...]
Cracked Wheat Knot Rolls
February 3, 2009 By 11 Comments
Once again, a small group of bakers is tackling a Gourmet magazine challenge, this time the breads featured in the February issue. The team tackling this fun challenge includes: Kelly of Sass & Veracity Judy of No Fear Entertaining Claire of The Barefoot Kitchen Courtney of Coco Cooks Sandy of At The Baker’s Bench (It [...]
Slow Rise Panettone
December 25, 2008 By 29 Comments
We like to make fruit-studded breads during the holidays, and the boxed panettones look so pretty and tall, but my experience has been that they are mostly dry and flavorless or have a fake taste to them. I’ve wanted to bake my own for a while and read many recipes in my search for a [...]
The Daring Bakers Make Peter Reinhart’s Pizza Napoletana
October 29, 2008 By 21 Comments
I remember seeing Peter Reinhart’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice for the first time at a bookstore the year it was released. The striking photo on the cover immediately grabbed my attention and I heard my own voice say aloud, “I want to make bread like that.” The book did not go home with me that [...]
The Daring Bakers Make Danish Braid
June 30, 2008 By 18 Comments
I was so excited to see this challenge when it was posted earlier this month because we love bread in any shape or form. Ask my boys what they want for a snack, and they’ll say anything in the bread category even before cake, cookies, ice cream, popsicles, and lollipops. It’s almost as if this [...]
Easy Daily Batard and Couronne
June 23, 2008 By 17 Comments
I have been trying to bake bread for years, sometimes with good results, other times edible but not pretty, and more often than I care to admit I was too ashamed to even feed it to the birds. I have willingly spent hours tied to the kitchen looking after rising doughs, though not as often [...]
