The most wonderful bread popped out of my oven this morning. While admitting to having a
hormonally challenged day on Monday, I made a batch of bread and forgot to add the yeast. I discovered this when, after two hours, the dough hadn't expanded in the teeniest bit. Not wanting to throw it in the trash, I decided to kneed in the missing yeast. I gave the dough a good buttering and covered the bowl with a (recycled) plastic bag AND a dish towel. It sat all yesterday ever so slowly expanding. I think I punched it down once or twice. By bedtime (Tuesday) .. it was a nice height .. but I forgot/ran out of time to bake the bread. Early this morning (deranged and lacking sleep) I divided the dough in two rounds and set it for a final rise. Heaven .. it gave off the most nutty rich sourdough scent to my entire house. The bread has that sheen that a good commercial loaf is famous for. This may be my new easy method of making sourdough bread .. without having to mess with a starter (only next time I won't be getting up in the middle of the night to bake it).
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Cool - would love to see a pic - if there's any left :)
I'm glad you had success with your middle of the night bread baking. I bet it did smell good. I was expecting to see a picture. Oh well.
Hope your day is a good one.
FlowerLady
Well .. I'll be I found a way to post a pic ..
Oh how fun! Dicoveries are always so wonderful...and there's nothing better than bread success!
oh my gosh. Do you have butter? i want some!!!
Don't you love the wonderful accidents?! Love your new fall pics and background.
Cool. Gunnar is the bread winner and bread baker of this family. He has to, he must have gluten free bread. Also shall he have almost no yeast, so he goes for overnight time raising in a cold oven.
His bread taste lovely, BUT they are a bit dry after one day. Do you have a good advice I can pass further?
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