What are you Baking the Week of October 6, 2024?

[Mike Nolan]

No baking today/tomorrow, either.

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[BakerAunt]

We are getting ready for my husband's cousins' reunion this week. On Sunday, I baked a double batch of my adaptation of Ellen's Buns. I made ten from each recipe. In the evening, I baked a pumpkin pie. My blind baked crust stuck to the parchment I used to line it, so I had to do some repair work with a wet spoon and fingers. The pie looks great, but it has that one spot where it breaks through, like a very small circle. It seems to be a feature that happens with this oven, as it was not an issue with any other oven.

[aaronatthedoublef]

It's quiet here!

We did our challah bake at temple. It was fun. Not sure how many people actually baked their bread once they were home but the kids enjoyed it. I made a few batches of dough and I also made three loaves of challah for the kids to sample.

The one challenge was rather than cleaning the tables and having the kids roll the challah on the table, they had them do it on paper tablecloths. The kids either floured the paper very heavily and then had trouble making the strands stick or, like Violet they rolled them into strands in their hands. Then they weren't tight enough. While they stuck together the strands melted into each other while rising.

While waiting for the first loaf to rise everyone mixed their own batch of dough.

We baked off the first loaf waiting for the second to rise. Then I shaped it into a coiled, round loaf and we baked it. We gave it to one of Violet's friends who was at the house to take home.

[Joan Simpson]

Aaron I'm glad your baking of the Challah went well and the kids had fun!

Today I made more sourdough to bake tomorrow and I've got a loaf of sourdough cinnamon raisin bread rising to bake tonight so I hope it turns out good for breakfast.

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[chocomouse]

That's a great looking loaf of bread, Joan! It will make a great breakfast toast.

[Joan Simpson]

Thank you Chocomouse it's the best I've ever made and the first sourdough cinnamon raisin bread. It's the recipe from King Author I soaked the raisins in a tablespoon of rum plumped up in the microwave . I'm not the best using the scale and accidentally got 20 more grams of sourdough starter and had to add a little more flour. I added the raisins in the dough and cinnamon and when I formed it I added the sugar and cinnamon swirl I'm happy this morning .Here's a pic of it.

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[aaronatthedoublef]

That loaf is a work of art! Amazing.

[aaronatthedoublef]

Hi. Have any off you ever put apples in bread? I'm thinking about doing this for some challah. When I've had other people's the apples appear to have kept the dough wet and from baking properly. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Also has anyone ever made a pumpkin shaped loaf? I was thinking about making a boule and then scoring it.

Thanks

[Mike Nolan]

I've had some breads with apple in them, I think the pieces have to be both small and fairly uniform in size to keep the results consistent.

I haven't made a full-sized pumpkin loaf, but I've made pumpkin shaped rolls. using string or dental floss during the bulk rising to get the grooves in it. The challenge is to get the strings off before baking without deflating the dough. (As I recall, the instructions I was using, which I found online, said to bake them with the strings on, but that made them even harder to remove without damaging the baked bread, the batch I made where I cut the strings off then added dough for a stem before baking them looked better.)

Putting a 'stem' on top is fairly easy, I'd be tempted to throw a little cocoa in the stem dough to give it some color. It would be small enough that it wouldn't have the characteristics of an auvergne or bonete, two cap-shaped breads.

You can use turmeric or annatto in the dough or in an egg wash to give it an orange hue without affecting the flavor much.

[aaronatthedoublef]

Thanks Mike. Should I coat the apples with cornstarch or flour (or even confectioner's sugar) or just cut them into small bits?

I'm inspired with the pumpkins. I may try that myself.

Update on Henry in Dublin - he is cooking for himself which is cool. He made meatballs the other day and had a slight mishap with the garlic. He confused cloves with bulbs and ended up with two whole bulbs of garlic in the meatballs. But college boys will eat anything.

Thanks again.

[BakerAunt]

Aaron--I seem to recall that Len did a pumpkin shaped loaf. I know King Arthur had a recipe for it that called for using strings to get the shape. I think that a separate piece of dough was saved to make the stem. I'm not sure if KABC still has the recipe up or not.

I made cinnamon roll dough and shaped the rolls on Tuesday evening, then baked them on Wednesday morning for the cousins' reunion.

[RiversideLen]

I don't recall doing a pumpkin shaped loaf but if I did, I would have made it in a bundt pan. My crafting skills aren't strong enough to make a boule and then put string on it and expect it to come out as envisioned.

I did make a bread in a lamb mold once for Easter. It came out pretty good; not perfect.

[Mike Nolan]

It depends on what kind of bread you're making, for a yeasted loaf with a typical bread dough texture I don't think I'd bother, for a quickbread coating them with flour or cornstarch should do what it does for raisins, keep them from sinking to the bottom of the batter.

[Joan Simpson]

I baked a new sourdough sandwich bread recipe today for my friend and I'm doing one for me to bake tomorrow.It had a good rise over the top of 9 x 5 tallest in the middle was 6 & 1/2 inches. I have enjoyed myself in the kitchen lately 😊 Thank you all for the sweet comments ❤️
https://www.theclevercarrot.com/2020/04/easy-sourdough-sandwich-bread/

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[RiversideLen]

Joan, all your breads look wonderful. You're making me hungry for raisin toast!

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