My grandmother used to make this back when I was a wee little runt. She called it Peek-a-boo. So thats what I call it. It has a very simple list of ingredients and the kids love it (and so do I).
This is a Cherry Peek-a-boo
The ingredient list-
2 Sticks butter = 226.8 Grams = 8oz.
2 Cups Sugar = 426 Grams = 15oz.
3 Eggs
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Here are some photos of this weekends bake.
I started off with a sponge being made on Friday night for the cranberry bread. I used a recipe for Pain Rustique bread with modifications made to it for my purposes. On Saturday I mixed up the the final dough and let it set while I made a couple bagel sponges
Mixed up Cranberry bread dough.
Dough and bagel sponges
Bagel balls
Finished cranberry bread
After a lonnnnggg summer of gardening, working on the house, and work in general. I am back, and I am glad to see alot of the old gang still here. JMonkey, ehanner, browndog, AnnieT, bluezebra, bwraith, and the rest...HELLO... Nice to see you still around. And of course hello Floyd, nice to see some of the neat tweaks to the webpage. To everyone I have missed out on meeting, hello, I look forward to talking bread with you. Hope everyone had a great summer...... Its nice to be back.
I dont really know if these photos will help anyone. I wanted to post them so some folks who may be having problems with shaping batards and baguettes and transferring to peel could see how I do it (I'm not a pro, I'm just using this as the way that works for me). And on with the show....
I started my weekend bake on Fri. night by mixing up a starter for a Hamelman Sourdough. Sat. morning I started mixing the final dough when my 13y.o.
After some encouragement and ideas from BlueZebra, and Kjknits, here is an oddball bread.
Apple-Onion-Bacon Sourdough
The brownish color crust is due to large amounts of Spelt flour.
In below pic there is Apple to the right, Some onion and bacon on the left, and you will see bacon up top. With a mild apple cider flavor throughout. In case you were wonderin..
Today was a good day so far. I was able to produce two great loaves of Normandy Apple Sourdough, two loaves of Brownbread, and I have a Olive Sourdough in the fridge for baking in the morning.
Here is the Normandy Apple Sourdough, using my starter Miracle Max for the build.
Well today has not been my day. It started out o.k., fed the starters, took my photos, and set out to start constructing a Marbled Loaf. The goal was to take 3 different colored doughs, (green, white, pink) and mix them into a wonderful round loaf with the colors swirling throughout.
Well I got as far as having all 3 doughs made out. The green dough was a Spinach dough. The white was a plain sweetened dough, and the pink was a tomato dough. This recipe was out of Bernard Clayton's "New Complete Book of Breads".
Here is my Mocha Java bread. The bread has the color of WW but only contains white bread flour. It is infused with chocolate and coffee. The crust is soft, with a very soft creamy crumb that has melted chocolate and caramel throughout. With a nice flavor of coffee to go with the chocolate.
Sponge:
