French and Rye Wheat Bread for the Holidays

Saturday 11-19-2011

Hello Everyone!!
So Saturday turned out to be a good baking day. The fine couple (Ryan and Callie Clark) has invited my family and I for Thanksgiving next Thursday and requested that I make some of my delisious Homemade Bread (How could I refuse a request like that? ;) )

So I started out the day assembling the ingrediants for the first 2 loaves of French Style Bread.
( 3 cups bread flour, 1 cup All Purpose flour, 1.5 cups room temp water, 1 tsp Salt, 1 tsp local honey, 1 tsp Goats milk powder and 2 tsp of bread yeast. )

The water, honey and goats milk power is added first!

Here is a tip, put a little oil on your spoon when using honey and the honey will not stick to the spoon!





Here's the dough kneading in the bread machine.

















The dough is ready in 1.5 hours. I then take it out, flatten it and cut in two. Each side is then rolled up to form the loaves of bread.




The dough then placed on a clay pan and covered for 1 more hour (placed in a warm place).

The oven is set for 400 degrees F and I place a dish with 1 inch of water in it in the bottom of the oven (this helps make a crispy crust.  The dough goes in for 10 minutes and then the temp is lowered to 350 F and cooks for another 15-20 minutes. 5 minutes before the last cooking is done, brush on some butter onto the top of the bread. That is all there is too it!!



After this I also baked a Whole Wheat Rye Italian Round Breads. The process this the same except I used 1 cup bread flour, 2 cups of whoel wheat flour and 1 cup Rye flour. I also added 1 tsp molasses to the list of ingredients. Some cooking process except I used a egg white water wash in the last 5 minutes of cooking.

The sure came out nice!!

Next...HOMEMADE PEANUT BUTTER!!!!