I had this post all ready to go last night -- I just came to edit it (shocking I know, if you've ever noticed the thousands of typos that regularly occur in the Singleton's kitchen. I embarrass myself.) and, what do you know? No words. I hate losing words. And I hate it when my coffee tastes off, like it does this morning.Anadama Bread: week one of The Bread Bakers Apprentice Challenge. I love Peter Reinhart and I really think that the man is the bread god. I made bread before I had this book, and it was good, but Peter Reinhart elevates bread to an entirely different level, in my opinion. For this challenge I get to bake along with a fantastic group of bakers -- Nancy, Kayte, Cathy, and Audrey -- and I couldn't be more excited about it!
Anadama bread is a rather typical laof bread, with a couple of exceptions: the molasses and the cornmeal. Now, I'm not world's biggest fan of molasses but I'll try anything once (foodwise, that is -- I'm a big scaredy cat otherwise) and I'm so glad that I did! The cornmeal I used is Lamb's Texas Cornmeal and I loved it. In fact, I need to remember to take some back to DC with me.
This bread is excellent! I made 8 rolls and one loaf. We used the rolls for the lamb burgers and then for sandwiches. My dad put the loaf to the "true test" and used it for PB&J for lunch last week and it makes an excellent sandwich. I wish I'd taken a picture but I think that we all know what a good PB&J sandwich looks like! This was a great loaf of bread and I feel confident that it'll be a repeat around here. I was shocked at how pillowy the bread is given the cornmeal and molasses in the dough. Next is the Artos (Greek Celebration) Bread. If anyone has any serving suggestions, I'll gladly take them!
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What a pretty looking bread. I have never heard of Anadama bread before.
My main serving suggestion for the Artos is to invite your favorite football team over to help you eat it, because it makes a frighteningly enormous loaf. But on to that anadama bread! It looks beautiful - you did a fantastic job. I wish that I made some rolls with mine. So glad to hear that the pass the ultimate peanut butter and jelly test! I am really looking forward to baking through the BBA with you!
Hope your day turns around -- no words plus off coffee is no way to start a Monday!
I hate it when the coffee tastes off! Mine did this morning as well. UGH. Anyway, in other news, this bread looks fantastic. I can't wait to see you and the other fabulous bloggers back through the wonderful BBA. Great job on bread #1!
Your loaf looks fantastic! Wasn't it delicious. I'm so excited about BBA. It's so fun.
Your loaf looks marvelous Jessica! I've never had anadama bread before but I really want to give it a shot now that I've seen all of these glowing reviews of it :) I'm looking forward to seeing the future recipes from the BBA!
Your bread looks picture perfect.
How exciting - your first BBA loaf!
It sure looks like an interesting combination, and I'll bet that PBJ sandwich was delicious!
Nice! This looks good, I bought the book, and might try to bake along - but another group may be tough. I got the cookbook you sent, thanks, it looks great.
Pretty sure I wouldn't have noticed any typos after seeing that bread - makes me wish I still had some!
What a gorgeous loaf - looks fantastic!
Wow, this bread looks great! And I understand about the coffee tasting off...anyway, thank you for visiting my site.
OK, how did I miss this post? I thought I was looking for it! This bread was pillowy and really delicious. Molasses + cornmeal: leave it to those thrifty, inventive New England types to come up with that combo.
Now you've got to get yourself active on Twitter because the advice literally flies around about the breads - the 4 of us and a few others. I made 1/2 recipe of poolish, which was perfect for 1.5 recipe of Artos, which I baked in 2 batches of 3/4 recipe each (giving bread away). Anyway, if you want the gram measurements for 3/4 recipe, I have them available!!
Your loaf looks great. I'll have to see if I can find that cornmeal around here (Austin area). I made some small dinner-type rolls with part of my dough; it worked really well. I bet your rolls were great with the burgers.
Looks gorgeous! (I know it tasted good...) Neat that you had special cornmeal. I've made bread a few time before, but for these first two BBA breads I've been saying Ooh and Wow to myself a lot because of how well they've been turning out. I'll probably have really funny-looking bagels just because I said that.
Very good job! nice looking bread. I know it is good, mine was good, too.
I was very impressed with this bread, the story behind the texture of the crumbs.... Love this challenge!ileana
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