January 10, 2009 - 2:02pm
Cinnamon raisin oatmeal bread
Well, I'm three weeks into this baking thing and so far I'm loving it. So is my husband. We bought a baking stone (wow oven spring), a dough scraper, bowl scraper, bigger mixing bowls, and lovely wooden mixing spoons made in France. Hefty little buggers.
Anyway, today we tried making the cinnamon raisin oatmeal bread that's posted on this site. It was for three loaves and we didn't want that many so I attempted to cut the recipe down to one loaf and I think it worked. It looks good, tastes great and now we're going to try a ciabatta recipe tomorrow. Big snowstorm coming so a good day to stay warm and bake!
Figured out how to post pics so here goes.
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If there was a beauty contest for bread, this loaf would win in my opinion. Lovely, lovely job. Can I have a slice?
Janet, your bread looks delicious! We're snowed in, too, so I'm baking all weekend. Let me know how your ciabatta turns out. I just made that for the first time this week, using the Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day recipe, and was quite happy with it.
The ciabatta turned out okay. I was pleased but I'd like more air but it did taste good and we enjoyed it with our pasta tonight.
I used a KAF recipe. I've used KAF three times now. Sandwich bread (good), rolls (terrible) and this ciabatta (good) but Mark suggested using Anis' baguette recipe and using it for ciabatta. I'm going to try that next time.
Guess I'll just have to keep making it until I get it juuuust right. Lucky me!
Janet
Hi, janet.
Your bread looks wonderful. This is a really good recipe, but, as you say, one might want to bake a smaller batch. A TFL member, KipperCat, did the calculations for 3, 2 and 1 loaf batches. She posted them in Floyd's original thread. At the cost of redundancy, and since others may find this useful, here they are:
David
Thanks for the comments and David, thanks for the recipe. I'm still trying to get used to people posting comments in reply to my posts. The positive reinforcement is very nice indeed.
We're done the preferment for ciabatta, which we're making tomorrow. If there's a pic you know it worked out. If no picture...
Cheers,
Janet
Sending a slice to everyone is simply ridiculous.......Send it to me and I will tell everyone how it tasted!!!
Jeff
Another one hooked on bread baking. One loaf today and another already in the wings. Purchase of baking stone, scrapers, bowls. Welcome to the mix! Very nice loaf, looking forward to seeing your ciabatta.
Betty
Drooling here, that looks wonderful! Great pic.
Very nice bread, looks delicious and perfectly done.
Eric
Oh, I want a bite...it looks perfectly delicious....I know I put a post here earlier...I think someone ate it by mistake! They thought it was your bread!! : )
Sylvia
Janet,
Your loaf looks great. Best of luck with your baking adventures and please keep us posted.
Howard