Our passion is great bread!
The bread of the month for the Bread Baking Babes is Fouace Nantaise, a soft, brioche-type bread with a splash of rum and a hint of orange. Created in the 19th Century by winegrowers in La Haie-Fouassière (a town near Nantes, France), this delightful bread is formed in the shape of a six-pointed star and is featured every year during the annual grape harvest festival. Elizabeth,
I had the pleasure of being the host kitchen for the Bread Baking Babes in December. My challenge to the bakers was to make beet bread using any color beets and any type of bread they so desired. This is the round up of the creative beet breads that the Bread Baking Babes and Buddies made. Enjoy! I chose beet bread because of the nutritional
These Braided Sourdough Spinach Loaves have a beautiful green hue due to the inclusion of pureed spinach and matcha green tea powder. The dough is sprinkled with flakes of spinach and when the loaves are baked, the crust darkens, but the crumb retains its lovely green hue. I got the idea to use spinach in this loaf from Shirley, one of the Bread Baking Buddies.
These Sourdough Spelt Onion Pockets, made with 100% spelt flour and filled with an onion/poppy seed mixture, are slightly sweet and nutty. This formula is an adaptation of the recipe from Inside the Jewish Bakery by Stanley Ginsberg & Norman Berg. Don Sadowsky, a member of the Artisan Bread Bakers FB Group, adapted the formula to utilize a sourdough levain. I want to thank Mr.
These Seeded Sourdough Cranberry Spelt Loaves, made with whole grain spelt, filled with cranberries, and wrapped in sunflower seeds, are my interpretation of the spelt rolls Ralph N. shared as the BOM for the Artisan Bread Bakers several months ago. I’ve been in testing mode this year so I made this bread a few times before landing on a combination I liked. I started by
