Couldn't help but want to share this link from "I Can Has Cheezburger" Lolcat bread pic.... On to my raisin bread, which turned out pretty good. I used Winter White Wheat, red wheat is simply to strong flavored for making a good cinnamon bread. I like the red wheat for my cereal bread though! The darkness of the crumb is mostly from the cinnamon th
What's not to like about a bread with meat and cheese everywhere you bite? I think I would have preferred it with a leaner dough, less fat in particular. It wasn't nearly as rich as the Brioche from the BBA Challenge, but the crust was almost flaky like a pie crust. The texture was very tender, and the taste of extra sharp white cheddar and salami really made this a very good bread.
This might just say it all. I made a very small amount of Peter Reinharts Rich Man's Brioche, actually only a third of the recipe. It still called for 1 1/2 sticks of butter in it, by weight is was almost the same amount as it called for flour! The recipe said this was the hardest to make of the three formula's. I took that as a challenge. Here's the end result, the "Money Shots".
Ok, I admit, my bookshelves are literally crammed with books, and I know that I haven't finished reading the three I got for Christmas. Bread Baker's Apprentice, King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion, and Taste of Home Baking... all really nice books and this gives me TONS of recipes. I am doing the BBA Challenge, so that has slowed me down from simply reading the book from cover to cover.
