So I bought some buttermilk to make a soda bread, then decided to make a buttermilk bread loaf to use up some of what remained. I used a recipe from Beard on Bread and it was the softest, gooiest dough I’ve worked with in a while. So I understimated the possibility it would overflow the pan while rising.
While rising too much can ruin the bread, that didn’t happen here. It came out with a golden crust—
And very, very tasty. It bonded tightly to the loaf pan but after I extracted the bread, the new dishwasher got almost all of the dough off. Next time, though, either a bigger pan or a little more flour to firm it up.
#SFWApro.
They were a fair amount of work; anything that involves making dough, rolling it out and then putting filling in it usually is. But they taste good and they’re very satisfying. About half of one makes a meal for me.
The past month I’ve been surprised how little I’ve been cooking, compared to usual. Not that I’m switching to junk food or takeout — fruit on cereal or yogurt, veggie sandwiches, scrambled eggs with this or that are all easy and they all provide me with healthy, or reasonably healthy, meals. Plus TYG’s been cooking for herself and I often wind up eating her leftovers
Wisp, meanwhile, has suddenly decided to sleep on the couch next to me or in my lap rather than on her pillow.
It’s almost like they’re living creatures who change their preferences rather than wind-up toys.
#SFWApro
Next weekend I’m going to try the book’s recipe for a raw apple pie — no baking, just a lot of chopping, mixing and pressing together. We’ll see how it goes.
The flavor was strong enough it would have worked better as a sandwich bread rather than just as toast. It also makes firm, solid slices for sandwiches; next time I plan some sort of fancy sandwich, I may make the bread again and see how it works.
It’s also the first time in over a year that we’ve had a chain restaurant maximal calorie dessert, the kahlua chocolate brownie.
Okay, that one was partially eaten when I photographed it.
— and no, that’s not two bagels on top of each other, it’s one loaf — and watched some TV. Plus petting dogs, Wisp, using the stationary bike and snuggling with TYG some.
— but very tasty. However I think I overdid the glaze.
Very chocolatey though. She was happy.
I actually miscalculated and made the temperature higher, but the bread still came out much larger than usual with my baking. I was able to use them for the sandwiches I made that evening — usually the slices are a little too small to be satisfactory.
A satisfactory blend, in case you were wondering. I’m also pleased with the others I ordered: Assam, Darjeeling and Brobdingnag tea (an Irish breakfast blend). Though the latter should, of course, have come in a giant size tin.
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