Tuesday, February 7, 2012

TWD Baking with Julia - White Loaves

This is the first week of the new Tuesdays with Dorie - Baking with Julia, how exciting! We will be baking fortnightly and should have one simple and one more complicated recipe to post each month. With over 300 bloggers baking along this is going to be fun!

So, first up we have White Loaves, chosen by Laurie and Jules.

I have been making bread a lot recently but cheating a bit because I use my breadmaker. I heart my breadmaker! While it makes great bread, of course, it also makes pizza dough and I can turn a basic dough mix into almost anything. Just last week I made cinnamon rolls (no pics sorry) and in the lead up to Easter there will definitely be some fresh hot cross buns too!

It has been a while though since I made a loaf of bread completely from scratch. I had forgotten how easy it is and Oscar loved seeing the dough rising and being punched down and turned into real bread.

This is a very simple recipe and it made 2 absolutely delicious loaves of bread. I stuck strictly to recipe and made 2 plain loaves perfect for sandwiches. We go through a LOT of sandwiches in this house. It froze well too and also made great toast.

All in all a great place to start the new TWD. I hope everyone else had success too! The list of bakers should be up soon on the TWD page.

You will find the recipe on pp81-82 of Baking with Julia by Dorie Greenspan, or Laurie and Jules will have it in their posts due today.

12 comments:

  1. Nice looking loaves of bread!! Well done.

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  2. Looking at all these fabulous results... now I wish I'd brought a sandwich for my lunch! :D

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  3. Your bread looks perfect! I love my bread maker too. :)

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  4. I love that you used the word fortnightly. It made me smile. And you bread baked up beautifully!

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  5. Great looking loaves! I also love my bread machine and haven't done this by hand in a long while, but sure enjoyed it!

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  6. It looks like you managed to make these beautifully, even without the bread machine :-)
    Looking forward to this round of TWD!

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  7. Your bread looks great, well done :)

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  8. I love that you used the word fortnightly. :) Your bread looks perfect! So glad you are back for round 2 of TWD!

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  9. Gorgeous loaves! Nicely done!

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