tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-385556182009-11-08T20:18:10.003-06:00Twelve months, three passionate bakers, thirty-six original recipes--and more fun than should probably be allowed in the kitchen.Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01385923797403540154noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38555618.post-39453694533576277762009-11-06T16:03:00.005-06:002009-11-06T16:16:11.072-06:00

Challah: Messing with TraditionWelcome to Friday Favorites, where A Year in Bread readers guest blog about their best bread recipes. If you bake a Friday Favorites bread at home, we hope you'll come back and share your experiences with us in the comments section of that post.Do you have a great bread recipe you'd like to share? Click here to find out how you can become a Friday Favorites guest

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Beth's Onion Cheddar Breadsticks (recipe here)We're making a list and checking it twice...Do you bake bread and write about it on the web? Post bread porn photos somewhere? If so, please drop a link in the comment section.To make this easier for us, please make the link as focused on bread as possible, meaning if you write about food in general and have a 'bread' tag or category, link that. Same

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Welcome to Friday Favorites, where A Year in Bread readers guest blog about their best bread recipes (also sometimes known as Slacker Sunday if we're posting one of our own favorite recipes). If you bake a Friday Favorites bread at home, we hope you'll come back and share your experiences with us in the comments section of that post. Click here to find out how you can become a Friday Favorites

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A one rise, homemade and healthy bread recipe that goes from start to serving in under two hours!Kelli's Pain aux Raisins Secs et Noisettes ou PacanesWelcome to Friday Favorites, where A Year in Bread readers guest blog about their best bread recipes. If you bake a Friday Favorites bread at home, we hope you'll come back and share your experiences with us in the comments section of that post.

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A versatile, overnight bread dough recipe using a sourdough starter that is perfect for sandwich loaves, hamburger rolls, hot dog buns, and even cinnamon rolls!Welcome to our delicious new series, Friday Favorites, where guest bloggers share their best bread recipes. If you bake a Friday Favorites bread at home, we hope you'll come back and share your experiences with us in the comments section

kitchenmagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04992982861785057694noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38555618.post-87055964146305108402009-09-11T09:47:00.004-05:002009-09-11T10:08:49.026-05:00

Anne's Oatmeal Toasting BreadWelcome to our delicious new series, Friday Favorites, where guest bloggers share their best bread recipes. If you bake a Friday Favorites bread at home, we hope you'll come back and share your experiences with us in the comments section of that post. Click here to find out how you can become a Friday Favorites guest blogger. Happy baking!Our first Friday Favorites

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sliding in under the wire...Technorati: Food | recipe | baking | bread | artisanal | artisan | bread baking | TAGNAME

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Susan's Cottage House White Whole Wheat (recipe coming soon)As summer winds down and school starts back up, many breadies are rinsing the sand (or garden soil) off their hands and feet and returning to the kitchen, refreshed and ready to get back into the dough. Those of us who bake bread year round despite the heat—and without the luxury of air-conditioning—are simply thankful that cranking up

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Gluten-Free Turkey Sandwich on Nutty Bread from Elana's Pantry (image via flickr, posted to the A Year in Bread flickr group) Have you ever baked gluten free yeast bread? I haven't had a chance to experiment with gluten free bread baking—I'm still struggling to master the intricacies of working with wheat and rye and oat flour, but some of you have been asking about gluten-free bread

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Old Dough saved for the next batch of Susan's Oatmeal Toasting BreadIt happens to all of us: a batch of bread dough that just doesn't work out. The recipe might be off, the yeast might be dead (says the woman who once blew half a dozen batches before tossing her yeast for fresh), or plans might change - sick kids, busted plumbing, alien abduction - and the necessary timing for baking up your

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Challah.Technorati: Food | recipe | baking | bread | artisanal | artisan | bread baking | wordless wednesday

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We each have our own personal bread 'crushes' on certain bakers and it is no secret that one of mine (Beth) is Peter Reinhart. I have been a fan since the days of Brother Juniper's Bread Book, buying each of Reinhart's books as it hit the shelves, then disappearing into the kitchen to emerge hours later in a whirlwind of flour bearing freshly baked loaves of goodness.In fact, if I had to name one

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Beth's Potato BreadThis is one of those housekeeping posts that I've been needing to do for a long time, and I apologize for taking so darned long to get to it. Unlike Susan, I can't even claim to have been out in the barn with the totally adorable, entirely too cute for words baby lambs. (and chicks)Simran from Bombay Foodie, who is baking through our first year, has inspired me to get on with

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Susan's 'Perfect for Beginners' Farmhouse White Sandwich BreadWe love to hear your feedback about our recipes, and we enjoy answering the many bread baking questions you ask us. But since our (often longwinded) replies usually end up buried in the comments sections of past posts, we thought it would be more helpful to start turning them into their own little mini posts instead. And besides, we

Farmgirl Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04851855517852917202farmgirlfare@gmail.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38555618.post-7827369107847553272009-02-25T17:52:00.003-06:002009-02-25T18:59:35.266-06:00

Those of you who have read a few posts here may know that I am a huge fan of cold-fermentation. The long, slow process allows the flavor of the grain to fully develop and the ability to bake bread on my schedule, rather than the dough's, is extremely useful.Most recipes can be made using this method, just start with cold ingredients and reduce the yeast a bit. Therein lies the rub, or the knead.

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It's great to hear that many of your 2009 bread baking goals (keep them coming!) involve sourdough. And we promise this really is going to be the year we finally take you step-by-step through the simple process of creating, caring for, and using your very own sourdough starter. I've been wanting to make the German Rye Sourdough in Local Breads since I first flipped through this wonderful book (

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White Pizza Goes Green: Susan's Swiss Chard Artichoke PizzaThe other day my foodie friend Mark Overbay, who works at the awesome Counter Culture Coffee in Durham, North Carolina, shared one of his New Year's resolutions with me. "I’ve vowed to myself to learn how to bake good bread from scratch in 2009," he confided in an e-mail. "My goal is to be able to provide my friends with loaves of

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A Whole Grain Loaf Even Diehard White Bread Fans Will LoveI'll admit that things have improved somewhat over the past several years, but for the most part bread still doesn't get the respect in the United States that it deserves—especially the poor sandwich loaf. Is there anything more depressing than a sandwich that is packed full of amazing stuff yet held in place by two totally disappointing

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Homemade Focaccia Can Be Quite Impressive LookingFocaccia is a tasty, easy to make, incredibly versatile Italian flatbread that I discovered very late in life—like about 8 months ago. I tried my friend Stephen's quick rosemary focaccia while researching bread recipes for an article I was working on and instantly fell in love. Basically a cross between thick pizza crust and bread, focaccia makes

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Susan's Farmhouse White - A Classic Sandwich LoafWelcome new visitors and hello old friends! Just in time for back-to-school, here are links to all the sandwich bread recipes we've posted so far on A Year in Bread. What could be better than sending your kids (or yourself!) off for the day with a lunch that includes a scrumptious sandwich made on homemade bread? We certainly can't think of

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Before.Organic rolled oats.AfterOrganic rolled oat flour.Process in food processor for a minute or so. Substitute for about 1/3-1/2 of the flour in recipes that aren't dependent on gluten, like scones or pancakes. You may need to increase the liquid in some recipes just a bit, although it is not consistent.Technorati: Food | oats | baking | bread | kitchenMage

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Rumors of A Year In Bread's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Just think of our unaccounted for absence in bread baking terms. The yeast isn't dead - it's more like the dough is fermenting really, really slowly. And when that warm and crusty loaf finally does come out of the oven, it'll be better than ever before.In the meantime, things don't look as good for this little guy. We may be big

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Fiddling With Farmhouse White: Susan's New Honey Bran BreadYou may have noticed that it's been a little quiet around here at A Year In Bread. We didn't plan to all go MIA at the same time, but sometimes life and all its busyness get in the way of bread blogging. Two of us actually have good reasons for our absence. Beth has been diligently meeting deadlines for her upcoming cookbook about cooking

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When I was a young'un, I moved from "Baja Oregon" to a very small coastal town in southwest Washington. A town where the locals joked, in some cases bragged, that, upon arriving, you should turn back your clock 20 years - to the '50s. (um, no) A town where, in the only 'ahead of their time' moment I witnessed there, they hated Calif…er, Baja Oregonians with a vengeance.Well, mostly.Some folks (

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In casting about for a topic for February we somehow came up with bite-size breads with cheese. Go figure. However, having arrived on that topic the first thing that occurred to me was gougères.Gougères are savory Pâte à choux puffs typically made with cheese, usually gruyere, but other cheeses are sometimes used. I frequently make them for parties because they keep easily for a day in the fridge

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