A Really Crappy Poem
By JMonkey
Hungry? Famished? Almost dead?
Jonesing for a hunk of bread?
Never fear, walk down the hall
To the machine that vends it all.
You'll find there bread in a can,
So long as you live in Japan.
Here's a link to the article.
By JMonkey
Hungry? Famished? Almost dead?
Jonesing for a hunk of bread?
Never fear, walk down the hall
To the machine that vends it all.
You'll find there bread in a can,
So long as you live in Japan.
Here's a link to the article.
How funny! You know Japan has a good reputation regarding bread--apparently the french taught their methods to Japan a long time ago, and even Calvel mentions in his book that they understood how to make truly french bread. I've also seen Japanese stamps with baguettes on them, which I thought was strange until I looked into it.
But this? I don't think Calvel would approve :)
As I browse and search for bread so lean
I come across this bread machine
The cans are gleaming and look so tasty
I wonder if I'll become a pastry!
Next!
Eric
Now I'm wondering who will be the first to post a picture of bread baking in a soup can. I think if you cut of the top of the can off with one of those side cutting can openers you replace the lid, let a little piece of dough rise, then throw it in the oven with something on top of the can to hold down the lid. Kind of a single serving pullman pan.
demegrad
http://www.demegrad.blogspot.com
I believe I saw a recipe on the foodtv network of a single serving cake baked in a soup can. I like the novelty of cooking in cans but always wonder what happens to the soldering components as they heat up in the oven or campfire..
SD Baker
And there's always the lunar landing module...
See complete article here.. http://www.flakmag.com/misc/bmbread.html
They said today it could be done
a can of bread for thoughts of one.
In soup can hidden and tucked away
a thousand years later to make a say.
The archeologists thought it strange
that bread from a can had never changed.
(bow and hand gesture for the next please....)
Mini O
Would I could retaliate,
but I'm sleepy and sedate.
When I first learned bakin',
the right book was Clayt'n.
Bread Became Art,
graduation to Peter Reinhart.
A tenacious, persistent teaser,
made me look at Maggie Glezer.
When finally I'm dead,
just bury me in bread.
A dough arose in Tokyo,
And stretched and yawned
--it was near dawn--
A yen to take a shower, sushi
Stepped into the flour;
When she was done
The morning sun
Was rising in the yeast;
A nut was tucked behind each ear,
A berry in her hair--
"Well, this should tame the beast", she thought,
And sat, not in a chair, but
In a can--not soup, or beer, or Spam--uh,
This was Japanadama.
Loved bread to the core
He baked bread by the dozen
Starting in a cold oven
This one's for you, Al Gore
oh that is fantastic, I have a friend who is going to Tokyo next week....I will see if she can find some.
Harvest proof
Mini O
Mini O, did you end up baking that dough in the can? I just baked some of the Light Wheat from BBA, and threw about 175 grams of dough in a can. It is by far some of the weirdest bread I've ever come across, might be a decent way to bake bread while camping though, there always seems to be enough soup cans around. It literally has NO crust, the bread it self was good though. I put a rock onto of the lid of the can but the bread seemed to creep out a little while expanding in the oven.
demegrad
http://www.demegrad.blogspot.com
and it stuck so bad, I didn't get it out whole! (Congratulations!) I smeared it with garlic butter and ate it with butter running down my wrists. It never had a chance to cool, poor thing. I had cut both ends out of the can and laid it on the side to bake with the dough expanding out both ends. (I was temped to add a metal drawer grip to the can, "the ultimate bread carry case") Many years ago, one could buy forms for round loaves that worked on the same principal, I believe they were glass so they would brown better. Sandwiches for the "bridge club." Anyone remember those? Not too practical I guess....
Mini O
I am so tempted to do that. Only use the big 28 oz soup cans.
I had a step mother once upon a time who made her whole wheat bread in coffee cans. It was terrible and flavorless, but that was not the fault of the cans I am certain. It was actually one of those formative moments that started me on a life long bread baking "thing". Thinking I can certainly make better bread than that can stuff =)