bread

Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour (usually wheat) and water, usually by baking
Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour (usually wheat) and water, usually by baking.
Bread may be leavened by naturally occurring microbes (e.g. sourdough), chemicals (e.g. baking soda), industrially produced yeast, or high-pressure aeration, which creates the gas bubbles that fluff up bread. In many countries, commercial bread often contains additives to improve flavour, texture, colour, shelf life, nutrition, and ease of production.

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  1. Morning Glory

    Do you bake bread - and if not, would you like to do so?

    We don't seem to have that many members here who make their own bread - but perhaps that is just my impression. Do you bake bread - if so, what types? And if not, why not? Join in the poll and tell us what types of bread you would like to learn to cook.
  2. Morning Glory

    Recipe Focaccia Bread

    After several attempts using various recipes this is the most successful focaccia I've made, so far - I used several bits of different recipes in the end. The onion and thyme topping is optional - there are many other toppings you could use or simply sprinkle with olive oil and coarse sea salt...
  3. Morning Glory

    Recipe Bud Light Bread (one rise method)

    It wasn't meant to be Bud Light - I bought a good brown ale the other day for making this beer bread. But there it was - gone! My son had drunk it. :mad: Bud Light was the only alternative in the house. It worked out OK. You can really taste the Masa Harina (blue cornmeal) in this bread even...
  4. Morning Glory

    What is your everyday bread?

    In this house its a multigrain, medium sliced (from Aldi usually). Hardly a gourmet bread - but that's what everyone here likes for everyday sandwiches, toast etc. So its in the cupboard most of the time. This alternates sometimes with soft white sliced bread. I like that too sometimes. You...
  5. Morning Glory

    How to get dried fruit evenly distributed?

    I've recently made two versions of Bara Brith (a yeasted fruit bread/tea loaf). Most recipes for yeasted fruit bread suggest adding the dried fruit after the first rising, which is what I did. This is really not very easy and I'm not happy with the result. Does anyone (@medtran49?) know how to...
  6. Wandering Bob

    Recipe focaccia

    I mentioned in the recent thread on herb flatbreads that I have been trying (and consistently failing) to replicate the focaccia that I used to buy from Fratelli Camisa in London 35 years ago. Having experimented recently with sloppy wet doughs, and having also seen Paul Hollywood's recipe for...
  7. Wandering Bob

    Recipe Simple thyme bread

    A simple thyme bread (pain au thyme) You need: 400g of strong white bread flour 1 level teaspoon of salt ¾ teaspoon of dried thyme 5g of dried active yeast ¾ teaspoon of sugar ½ tablespoonful of olive oil warm water Method: Put the flour, salt, thyme, sugar and dried active yeast into a...
  8. Wandering Bob

    Recipe Pain au sarrasin

    It was only after I’d made this bread that I discovered that pain au sarrasin actually exists – and is a speciality of Brittany. (Perhaps it’s sold on some local markets or sur commande from a boulangère artisanale – but I’ve never seen it for sale). If the bread contains between 10% and 40%...
  9. Wandering Bob

    Recipe Moroccan Semi-Sweet Bread

    The inspiration for this came from David Scott’s recipe in Middle Eastern Vegetarian Cookery (Rider and Company Ltd, 1981) You need: 500g of strong white bread flour 1 level teaspoon of fennel seeds 1 level teaspoon of caraway seeds 1 level teaspoons of poppy seeds 1 level teaspoon of salt 1...
  10. Morning Glory

    Recipe Buckwheat and Spelt Bread

    I was experimenting really and ended up using a banaton in a reversal of the way its normally used. The banaton is normally used for the final rise to give the bread distinctive ridges. Here, I used it for the first rise, then turned it out and let the dough spread and 'split' before cooking...
  11. medtran49

    Recipe Khobz

    We served this with Shakshuka with kefta https://www.cookingbites.com/threads/shakshuka-with-kefta.13164/. 1/2 cup AP flour 1/2 cup whole wheat flour 1 cup farina OR semolina OR barley OR corn or oat flour. 1/2 Tbsp dry yeast. 1/2 Tbsp sugar 1/2 tsp salt. 1/2 Tbsp olive oil. 1/2 egg (1 egg...
  12. Morning Glory

    Recipe Panzanella with Pickled Lemon and Rosemary

    No specific quantities here. Its a matter of taste and you can use more or less bread in relation to tomatoes. I used about a third in volume of bread to tomatoes. My twist on this Tuscan classic is to bake the cubes of bread with rosemary and add chopped pickled lemon for piquancy...
  13. medtran49

    Recipe Speck dumplings in beef broth with sauteed mushrooms

    5-6 ounces speck, 1/4 inch dice 1-1/2 Tbsp butter 7 oz country/rustic bread, torn, dried some Dry breadcrumbs if needed, preferably homemade from leftover bread (we keep in the freezer) 4 oz warm milk 2 eggs 1/2 medium onion, chopped fine 1 garlic clove, chopped fine 2 tbsp chopped chives 8 oz...
  14. The Late Night Gourmet

    Recipe Puttanesca Rolls

    I decided to combine all the classic elements of a puttanesca pasta preparation – olives, capers, achovies, tomatoes, and garlic - And see what would happen if they were baked into a bread. I purposely made them flat, so I could use them as a sandwich bun. And, the look is like a very savory...
  15. Morning Glory

    Recipe Tapenade Star Bread

    I've been wanting to make this star bread for a long time - it looks complicated but in fact its reasonably simple once you try the technique. You can use all kinds of fillings for the star bread, sweet or savoury. The technique is based on Saffron & Cranberry Star Bread by Cravings in...
  16. Elawin

    Recipe Little Croustades filled with Gravadlax and Soured Cream

    These are simplicity itself and the filling comes from the supermarket. The croustades are made in mini tartlet tins, which are available in trays of 12; what they are essentially are croutons made into tartlet cases. There are a number of fillings that could go into them – Mexican Guacamole...
  17. Morning Glory

    Recipe Leek, Mushroom and Cheese Bread Pudding

    This savoury bread pudding can be served warm or at room temperature, rather like a quiche. Its good accompanied by a tomato salad. Ingredients 75g ciabatta bread cut into cubes 3 tbsp olive oil 2 fat garlic cloves 2 medium leeks, chopped into small rounds 100g mushrooms, chopped into bite...
  18. CraigC

    Recipe Mushroom Bread Pudding

    We make this as a side when we make standing rib roast (prime rib) Courtesy Emeril Lagasse "Emeril's Creole Christmas" Ingredients 3 Tbsp unsalted butter 3 Cups thinly sliced yellow onion 2 tsp salt 1/4 plus 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper 1/8 tsp freshly ground black pepper 1 lb assorted mushrooms...
  19. The Late Night Gourmet

    Recipe Light Naan Bread

    I've made naan bread many times. My regular naan bread recipe includes olive oil, which this one omits. And while naan bread is traditionally made with yogurt, it's not used in the proportions I use here. The recipe for Light Bagels that I posted previously uses the same technique: the fat free...
  20. Morning Glory

    The CookingBites Recipe Challenge: Bread

    Congratulations go to @SatNavSaysStraightOn who won the Recipe Challenge ‘sesame seeds’ with a recipe for Sesame Seed Snaps and has chosen bread (as an ingredient within a recipe) as the next challenge ingredient. The new extended deadline for entries is midday Saturday 14th July (BST). The...
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