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ResidentSadist -> RE: -=Bread Recipe=- (1/15/2012 9:27:24 AM)
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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse
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ORIGINAL: Ninebelowzero
I used to have one for olive oil bread, the ex kept the cookery book <sobs>
I bet if you do a google, you can find the recipe or one like it.
That's how I've got nearly all my favorite recipes, especially for breads.
I lost a recipe I developed. It was for coffee and vanilla cream flavored bread. Friends would come over and beg for loafs of it or try to pay me to bake them some. It was so good and so unique, I considered making a business of it.
In fall of 2007, my house was broken into and the place was turned upside down. I moved out instantly... literally moved out and into a new place in 72 hours. Somewhere in all that, I lost the recipe and the bread machine had been packed away ever since... until now.
You have my empathy for your lost olive oil bread recipe and the cook book it was in.
As a kid, I was raised on ethnic bakery breads, the big hearth bread loafs that weigh 5 lbs. I loved the Jewish, Lithuanian and Russian bakeries and their dark rye bread (pumpernickel), hearth bread and bacon buns (buns stuffed with bacon and onions in the middle). At grandma's house there was always a loaf on the table with a bowl of Russian tomato salad (like a bruschetta) next to it. I got a taste for real hearty breads. You know, the type of bread that is so dense granny hit that mugger with it and knocked him out cold!
When I was a teen, my roommate was a baker and taught me how to make bread. I learned you can make anything into bread if you get the knack of making the dough ball just right so it will rise.
Since my teens, I have been making and baking my own bread. Over a thousand loafs of homemade oven baked bread have sat on the Resident Dinner table in my life. Over the years I have become somewhat of a bread snob. 7 years ago, I had a poly with 2 girls and 3 kids collectively. Between the kids and their friends that came over after school for sandwiches and snacks, we used a lot of bread. I got lazy, bought a bread machine and started creating my own recipes for it. I don't mind bread machines, they work very well. But nothing beats a fresh oven baked loaf.
What is the best bread you ever had?
For me, it's the Lithuanian black rye bread called "juoda rugine duona" (like a really dark pumpernickel). It is so dense, the butter pools up instead of soaking in. You have to balance the slice when you eat it so butter doesn't drip off the sides. It's so dense, it seems like you could toss it in the water and it wouldn't get wet. The aroma is heady, sour, pungent and almost overwhelming. The black rye bread is a Lithuanian cultural icon in traditional meals like "blood soup & black bread". Hell, that bread is so rich in flavor and so durable (waterproof), they make bread soup "duonos sriuba" from it. It's made with that black rye bread, onions, potatoes, butter and sour cream.
So there you have it, bread that is so awesome, they make a dinner soup out of it. If you have never had black rye bread, try it.
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