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Some for the neighbors, some for the freezer, some for now. Oatmeal bread with honey. This is the recipe I used from one of my favorite bread recipe cookbooks. The first numbers are for a bakery to use, the second is for the home baker. I made half of the bakery-sized batch. That's a good size for the Hobart, and I made time today to get this done.
When it's a baking day, it's a full day.
Oh, I should explain the pan of buns. I ran out of loaf pans before I ran out of dough, so ... buns!
Bread Flour 15 lb 1 lb, 8 oz (5½ cups)
Whole-Wheat Flour 5 lb 8 oz (1⅞ cups)
Rolled Oats 3.3 lb 5.3 oz (1⅝ cups)
Water 12.5 lb 1 lb, 4 oz (2½ cups)
Milk 2.2 lb 3.5 oz (½ cup)
Honey 1.5 lb 2.4 oz (3 T)
Vegetable Oil 1.5 lb 2.4 oz (5½ T)
Salt .44 lb .7 oz (3½ tsp)
Yeast .34 lb, fresh .18 oz, instant dry (1½ tsp)
Total Yield 41.78 lb 4 lb, 2.5 ozI added extra milk, honey, and oil, so my half batch was around 21 to 22 pounds. I know the Hobart can handle just about that much at the most, as you can see in the pics above.
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Oh, those look delicious - nice going.
Without wishing to sound ungrateful, they are orders of magnitude better looking than our attempts many years ago.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes
We're trying the buns right now, and they are indeed delish. This is the first time I've used this recipe, but I really like this author's other recipes.Of course, I also like to have moist bread for sammiches, so that's why I upped the milk, honey, and oil. It was a very good decision. I regret nothing!
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Oatmeal honey?
Mmmmmm...
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@George-K said in A good day:
@brenda said in A good day:
That's a bonus on baking day, the aroma of fresh baked breads.
Looks wonderful.
When we were selling our house, one realtor said that, before an open house, bake some bread...
Or cookies. Either one works.
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Those look yummy, Brenda.
Since you're the bread expert.....
My husband starting baking baguettes this summer, and has actually become decent at it. But he can never get the crust as crusty as he would like. I think the crust is fine, but he gets anal about food he prepares. He's tried the skillet with ice trick, and baking hotter/longer. We don't have a Dutch oven that would fit.
Do you have any tips?
Do you have any tips?
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@Friday
Friday, has he tried using steam? I have a water squirt bottle that I fill with our RO water just for this purpose. (That means I won't let hubby take it out to the garage for any reason. LOL)Preheat the oven.
Shape the loaves and put in pans or on baking sheets with parchment.
Open oven and squirt water on the walls and floor of it several times. Close the oven.
Get the loaves ready to go in, if you need to do any last steps. This is when I score the tops of the loaves.
Put the loaves into the hot oven. Squirt the side walls, back wall, and bottom of the oven again, and gently spray the tops of the loaves.
Close the oven. Wait about 15 to 20 seconds. Open the oven again and spray again. Close the oven and let it bake the magic. -
Holy crap that's some serious bread.
Please love yourself.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in A good day:
Holy crap that's some serious bread.
Baking day is very serious here. Today I had all three ovens going, including the big gas oven.
If you say that last line fast enough, that's true, too.
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@brenda said in A good day:
Baking day is very serious here.
Here too! When my wife bakes bread, the batch is... seems to be... 1/14th the volume of yours, but the procedure takes 10 hours. The results are awesome but I don't know how she puts up with the time commitment.
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@brenda said in A good day:
the big gas oven.
If you say that last line fast enough, that's true, too.
To clean out the fridge, I often make SAS: Spicy Ass Stir-fry.Please love yourself.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in A good day:
@brenda said in A good day:
the big gas oven.
If you say that last line fast enough, that's true, too. To clean out the fridge, I often make SAS: Spicy Ass Stir-fry.LOL I'm stealing that.
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Nothing interesting to add except wow and a question.
That little wheelie thing the KitchenAid bowl is sitting on in the top pic, what's its story? Was it made by the KitchenAid people specifically to lug around the bowl, or made by somebody else for some other purpose and you stole it to use on Bread Day?
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
