Bake anything lately?

[Karyl Lee]

Hi all- I kick myself I didn't take any pictures of my last adventure, but I'll be repeating it, I am sure!
I baked a batch of hybrid Tangzhong and no-knead that I converted part of into Parker House style rolls, and part into a simple free-form loaf. The rolls I made a cinnamon, butter sub, brown sugar and orange rind "filling" for and simply squished them shut around it like a steamed bun. Stuffed into muffin cups they rose and shaped like muffins, but had more of a Parker House texture, although I didn't butter the tops. The loaf was crusty but not tense and tore easily without crumbing much. This is such a versatile method!

[Bonnie G #2]

Wow, wish you had taken photos those sound awesome

[Bonnie G #2]

Busy week for me, Wed I head back to the States for the summer and back to my own kitchen, first thing I have scheduled is to purchase a new oven so I can do some baking. The one I have now is so old an the temp unstable so hoping to find a good one that will last awhile.

[Red Apple Guy]

safe travels, Bonnie.

[Bonnie G #2]

Thanks Red, I'm really getting excited will be nice to see our kids and family again.

[JoeV]

It's bake sale weekend at church, so I made them 20 loaves of free form, olive oil Italian, and made 4 loves in pans for us. Starter at 0430 and the last pan came out of the oven at 0900. I'll let them cool for a couple of hours then bag and tag them.

[Red Apple Guy]

That's a huge amount of dough baked in a short time too.

[JoeV]

Red Apple Guy wrote:
That's a huge amount of dough baked in a short time too.

I have two KitchenAid stand mixers, 6 sheet pans 16" x 22" that hold 4 loaves of bread on each, and I have two 30" ovens...one up and one in the basement. I bake 8 loaves at a time, so that's only 3 baking cycles of 30 minutes @ 400F. Without the second mixer and oven I would still be playing around trying to get done.

[Bonnie G #2]

That is impressive Joe, and looks so good. I'll bet they fly off the shelves at the sale

[Red Apple Guy]

Japanese milk bread again - with whole wheat. The rolls are wrapped around meatballs.





Red

[Bonnie G #2]

Red, what a great idea - you didn't have any trouble with the meatballs draining grease into the bread???

[Red Apple Guy]

No. I cheated and used frozen cooked meatballs that I had defrosted. One issue is the hole gets larger as the bread rises or bakes.

Red

[JoeV]

Fresh from the oven. Sourdough, Italian herb no-knead bread bowls. They are still crackling as they cool!! This evening I'll cut off the tops and dig out the crumb so I can fill them with the chicken noodle soup I made this morning. Mama should feel better after this dinner (she has a cold).



Here it is filled with more goodness.

[Red Apple Guy]

Boy that looks good, Joe.

[tasb]

YUM, so many tempting pictures. I haven't been baking much lately, been sick. Last night I finally got around to making an Apple Cake from BH&G cookbook. I made it into muffins instead.