Our passion is great bread!
This Spelt Country French Bread, made with all-purpose and whole grain spelt, utilizes the straight dough method and works well if you want to make a quick loaf for a weeknight meal. I made the dough for this bread in a bread-baking tool called the EZ DOH. It is a manual bread dough mixer created by Ginny, The Loaf Lady! Her marketing manager (aka husband)
The dough for this French Bread with Apples and Walnuts is prepared the day ahead in the bread machine and placed in the refrigerator to ferment overnight. The next day, the loaf is shaped by hand, then baked in a conventional oven. The theme for the November Twelve Loaves’ challenge is apples. I had a few apples left from my excursion to my favorite farm
This month, the Bread Baking Babes and Buddies are honoring Julia Child who would’ve been 100 years old on August 15th. In memory of this remarkable woman, the BBBs have been baking Julia’s version of Pain Français (French Bread) from her book Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume Two. Julia Child was very detailed and thorough which I appreciate being a detail-oriented person myself.
