Postcard from Civilization
Well, normally I have a little quiz when I post old postcards, but my readership is way too smart. Sometimes, I hardly have them posted and the answer is up there. So, today I simply ask, what is your favourite bread (and if you make it at home, how do you make it?)
10 comments:
Mr A & Tuffy P, I love pumperknickel bread. When I was sick with the flu, the only thing I could eat was toast. I lived on this bread for a week. It saved my life. LOL
Good old fashioned sour dough. The favourite one I make at home is my oat flax, though. And also my oatmeal molasses...I could go on and on...
The only bread I make at home is Irish soda bread, but I also love what in Italy we call "panino all'olio" (olive oil bread roll?): so soft and delicious. I grew up on the stuff!
I love European bread - heavy, full of grains, delicious, good for you. I have tried to duplicate it at home, usually ending up with a flat rubbery something!
I also love my grandma's recipe (she used to cook for a ranch) for dinner rolls - huge white bread rolls (one makes dinner for me!) with homemade apple butter. I can make a passable batch of rolls if I work hard at it. I think. It's been a long time. Never been able to duplicate that apple butter from heaven!
I will post the recipe. My sister and I were going through an old familiy cookbook...
Oh, I dunno. I can tell you a bread story, though.
I suppose, like Gardenia, I like "European bread", as long as it's not English.
This has inspired a post for later, by the way...
anything soft and fresh.
Which is not how I like my guys.
Last winter, I made sour dough bread almost every week, until one week when I was busy and forgot looking after the needs of the concoction, or 'the baby' or whatever you want to call it.
I may get it started again over the winter.
keema naan. Beeeeeautiful
db makes a hearty sourdough weekly. In fact, he just took a loaf out of the oven when I saw this postcard. Sometimes he adds walnuts to the bread and I think that's my all time favorite. Plus it gives the sourdough a purplish hue from the nuts that looks quite wonderfully rustic as well.
I have to agree with wandering coyote, sourdough is just so good. Especially California style.
You should contact me if you make it again this winter, yaaay!
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