Baking

[jayfurr]

Last night's project: bagel dogs.



Today: a nice chewy loaf of sourdough bread baked in my King Arthur Flour pain de mie pan, using King Arthur Flour's special Sir Lancelot high-gluten flour:



I suppose this baking thing I do isn't intrinsically very exciting to folks out there, but I blame it on not having any kids or anything like that to occupy my time.

Comments

[lemur-librarian.livejournal.com]

I suppose this baking thing I do isn't intrinsically very exciting to folks out there, but I blame it on not having any kids or anything like that to occupy my time.

you could always bake a gingerbread boy. :) The bagel dogs look good (well, bread does too). Did they turn out well?

[jayfurr.livejournal.com]

Yup, both the bagel dogs and the bread came out quite well. I think I could have done a better job sealing the bagel dogs but in general they did well. One or two sort of opened up during the bake. I worry more about cosmetic appearance of food than some people might.

[flaviarassen.livejournal.com]

So, what's the actual recipe for those?
(Don't worry if you have to put milk in it -
I will just substitute soy milk for it.

sourdough pain de mie

[(Anonymous)]

Cool - I never thought to do sourdough in my pain de mie pan. OK, on my list to try - thanks for the inspiration! And thanks for the nice mention - Bake on- PJ Hamel, King Arthur Flour baker/blogger

[jayfurr.livejournal.com]

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/shop/RecipeDisplay?RID=R242

I followed the recipe, right down to using the malt extract syrup (which I have on hand precisely for making bagels), then divided the dough into ten balls, rolled them into pancakes, and rolled the beef links in the pancakes, sealing the ends and seam with water. Boiled them for three minutes in the water bath specified in the recipe, then baked them at 425 for twenty minutes, turning them halfway. Pretty simple recipe, really, and should be kosher unless you can't put beef inside bread and still be kosher.

Re: sourdough pain de mie

[jayfurr.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. My wife and I really like sourdough and we like chewy bread (which is where the Sir Lancelot flour really comes in handy), and as a what-the-heck I decided to use the pain de mie pan to get nice regular slices... which last night we put roasted garlic on and thought what decadent little Vermonters we were.

[jayfurr.livejournal.com]

I do like gingerbread and I have some large gingerbread boy cookie cutters, but right now we've got more pumpkin pie and apple pie in the house and freezer than we know what to do with. That being said, I'm off all week and if I get the urge to bake gingerbread boys might be fun. I'm not great at making the frosting and glaze and stuff come out looking like a pro would and hence I often do a fairly minimal design, but hey, got to keep trying, right?