Bake your bread, make your desserts 2020

How did I miss that creation. Wow is right.

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Thank you @Barca and @Rooster! Yes, we like the combination of savory and sweet.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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All bread sold out a market yesterday -> Today’s loaf. Needs must.

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Beautiful! Can I have the recipe please?

Stunning! Is that the Jim Lahey no-knead?

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I found your recipe when did a search, sorry for the repeated question asked by others already, but I’m a newbie in bread. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Cool. I was waiting for a quiet moment tomorrow to respond. This loaf is truly idiot bread. Not sourdough, and I apologize for that, but is is a great sweet French-type bread. Please let me know if you want more input.

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Can’t do more complex bread, as no room in the fridge for the rest. I’m making your no knead bread today and see how it goes tomorrow.

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Made this lime curd pie yesterday.

Very good. Although a bit regret to have made it at a time that supplies are scare (Need to queue up long time to even enter supermarket, not to talk about possible empty shelves). The recipe uses a lot of butter, I think it will be difficult to make a second dessert this week… with only 125g (4.4oz) of unsalted butter left. Maybe will combine with salted butter…to make a rhubarb tart…

By the way, l’ve some pork fat or lard, is it possible to substitute butter?

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Many folks actually prefer lard to butter for pie crusts!
Heres’s a recipe (I haven’t tried it but it looks good : )

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Lard crust is fabulous for apple pies.

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And especially for savory meat pies.

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@pilgrim @StephanieL @Happybaker

Good to know this. Can one just substitute in a recipe butter by lard, I’ve read that butter is 20% water and 80% fat and lard is 100% fat.

Theoretically, no, Practically, yes. I have been accessing full fat (or close to it) butter labelled either “baker’s butter” or “extra creamy”. Butter here is labelled with %age fat.

If someone wants an extremely easy sandwich bread recipe, I highly recommend this one:

I do 1/3 whole wheat flour, 2/3 AP and usually a little lighter on the butter.

It isn’t going to win beauty awards, but is crazy easy in the food processor and very comforting.

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Not bad for a first timer. Made it after 22 hours of rest. Thx @pilgrim
I followed the original recipe of NYT but used the oven temperature and time of pilgrim. It turned out wonderful.

I’ll try the version 3.0 next time, with beer and vinegar in addition.

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Nice looking loaf @naf!

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@naf Way to go, naf! Spectacular loaf. Since I was made aware of this process, I have felt very empowered that given flour, water, speck of yeast and oven, I could provide bread with little effort. In the country, where you can’t buy a decent loaf or here in town where today it is the luck of the draw whether your store will have bread. Or, worse, if you’re as old as I and am admonished to STAY IN! Enjoy!

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@naf, realize that variation is endless. Add raisin, algae, walnuts, what’s your yen???

Yeah, actually, I’ve made some loaves before, but either the loaf was too dense or the bread was too hard. The texture of this loaf was impressive with minimum effort. I do wonder if using a sourdough starter but applying the no knead method, how would it be different. Yes, adding some cereal or nuts or spice can be interesting.

There are people suggested cooking the bread on a pizza stone and covering with the cast iron pot. I guess one will obtain a more “burnt” bottom.