See this beautiful homemade white bread? This is The SONO Baking Company Cookbook's Classic White Bread Recipe. I made this for
Diane's Post a Loaf Day. It has a mild sweet taste and is nice for sandwiches or as toast. While the ingredients are simple (water, yeast, flour, nonfat dry milk, sugar, salt, butter), the techinique is a little bit involved. Make the dough. Let it rise. Punch it down. Let it rise. Fill the loaf pan. Let it rise. Bake it. While I was making this recipe, I was also making Heidi Swanson's cabbage soup and Baked Sweet and Salty Caramel Brownies. (No, I will not add links or give you the whole recipes. Buy the books- it is worth the money for those recipes alone.) I was having trouble paying attention and I forgot the most important step at the end. "Preheat to 500 degrees. Place the loaf on a baking sheet, place the baking sheet in the oven and IMMEDIATELY REDUCE THE OVEN TEMPERTATURE TO 375." Oops.
This blurry picture taken by my kindergartener shows the top of the loaf when you leave it at 500 for the first twenty minutes. Oops. The inside of the bread was great, but the top was a little bit burnt and scary. Oh well. I guess I learned my lesson: Do not bake/cook three different things at once and read all of the instructions thoroughly before jumping into the shower! I look forward to reading
everyone else's "Loaf" posts. I wonder if meatloaf or quick breads will be represented. I would bet a lot money that mine is the only burnt loaf in the bunch!
See this beautiful homemade white bread? This is The SONO Baking Company Cookbook's Classic White Bread Recipe. I made this for Diane's Post a Loaf Day. It has a mild sweet taste and is nice for sandwiches or as toast. While the ingredients are simple (water, yeast, flour, nonfat dry milk, sugar, salt, butter), the techinique is a little bit involved. Make the dough. Let it rise. Punch it down. Let it rise. Fill the loaf pan. Let it rise. Bake it. While I was making this recipe, I was also making Heidi Swanson's cabbage soup and Baked Sweet and Salty Caramel Brownies. (No, I will not add links or give you the whole recipes. Buy the books- it is worth the money for those recipes alone.) I was having trouble paying attention and I forgot the most important step at the end. "Preheat to 500 degrees. Place the loaf on a baking sheet, place the baking sheet in the oven and IMMEDIATELY REDUCE THE OVEN TEMPERTATURE TO 375." Oops.
This blurry picture taken by my kindergartener shows the top of the loaf when you leave it at 500 for the first twenty minutes. Oops. The inside of the bread was great, but the top was a little bit burnt and scary. Oh well. I guess I learned my lesson: Do not bake/cook three different things at once and read all of the instructions thoroughly before jumping into the shower! I look forward to reading everyone else's "Loaf" posts. I wonder if meatloaf or quick breads will be represented. I would bet a lot money that mine is the only burnt loaf in the bunch!
9 comments:
Your crumb looks perfect, and I'm sure you could just cut off the top crust. I certainly wouldn't say no to a slice!
Oops! Yeah, I've had multitasking get me a few times. I burned caramel this week--not recommended. I haven't seen a meatloaf yet, but there are quite a few quick breads. I'm doing poundcake myself. Thanks for baking along!
I have that book, but haven't tried this recipe yet and will have to soon. Your slices look perfect and I bet were so tasty!
I have that book as well and have made many things - except this! What a beautiful loaf - I need to do more bread baking. And I love the photo - an "action" shot! :)
I love white bread, and those are two cookbooks I've never even heard of, but the recipes you made sound great. I'll have to do some investigating!
Yum, put a big ole slab of butter and jam on top and I sure would gobble it right up! Great loaf.
I have done that EXACT same thing, but can't remember which bread recipe. Good thing "bread is forgiving" right? I know it was perfectly delicious because the crumb is spectacular!
oh no! Well, the inside looks perfect- crustless sandwiched it is!
I agree with Phyl. The crumb looks perfect. And this type of stuff happens to all of us. At least you didn't forget an important ingredient, like sugar in a cake recipe (not that I did that :o)).
First time here. Found your blog via Di's round up. Nice blog you got here!! :o)
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