Self-made bread

Self-made bread is supposed to taste fantastic and to be very healthy, but you need the time for it.

Since I have some time left, I done one (still in the oven) and I'm curious how it will taste. Now that I sit here and think about my self-made bread, I wondered if you have done one as well.

Did you? How did it taste? Was there a special reason to make one?

What's your favorite recipe for bread?

And have you ever eaten self-made bread at your FF meeting?

I'm curious as usual.

 

Lexi, you really did one today as well? That's funny!
What kind of bread was it?


Just ate a piece of my fresh self-made bread and it tasted good. Not fantastic. But that's mostly because I put in a flavoring that I didn't like much. I hoped it wouldn't be that easily distinguished from the rest. But still it tastes good, next time I'll reduce that flavor and will be even better.

Speaking of next time... Maybe I'll do another kind of bread first.


Mister, I guess you don't like baking and cooking, right?

It's really nice to have a sister who makes bread all the time! Would it be possible to move over here so she can do some for me as well?

 

I had a period for something like two years when I decided not to buy any soft bread. I didn't end up baking as much as I wanted though so I ended up buying a lot of crisp bread instead.

Still I think it's quite fun to do, and I always make sure that I have flour, oil and dry yeast at home so that I can bake when I feel like it.

 

Sourdough isn't complicated. I've done it a couple of times, from a recipe on the back of the flourbag. Don't remember which kind of flour it was that I found it on though.

 

I haven't worked with that sourdough yet, but it doesn't look complicated.

You did the yeast all by your own, right? I always go the easy way and using one of those dry yeast packs.

 

If I remember it correctly for sourdough you mix the flour, I used rye flour, with water and you let it stand and mature for a couple of days. Then you take a piece of that and use it as a basis for the proper bread dough. I added a bit of yeast (25 g) to that bread as well, but the flavour and most of the raising comes from the sourdough.

 

I ate a bit more of the bread mentioned above, but I had to give it someone else, since I disliked the flavor more and more.

But that didn't keep me from trying out another bread: Kalakukku. Johanna do you know that? It's from your neighbours country, Finland.

It's a bread with fish inside.

This one takes ages (about six hours in the oven), but it's worth. It tastes really great and I ate more than half of it already!

 

I haven't heard about that, but Finns are strange people.

 

Strange people, strange food... but yummy!

 

I did another bread a few days ago. This time it was a half-self-made one, since I just had to add water. It is ok.

I'll do a new one soon.

 

I made some sweet bread recently. It was good, but not as fluffy as it should be. So I'll test a bit more.

The name in German is "Stuten" or "Hefeplatz", but I can't find a translation for it. Does anyone know one?