BREAD BAKING MADE EASY!
By
Beth Scott
Don't you just hate it when
you follow a recipe to the A lot of the time this will
letter and when the bread be unnecessary however and
baking is finished the bread your bread will pop out just
not only looks nothing like by your turning the bread pan
the recipe book's picture, but upside down.
tastes terrible as well?
You will probably also want
There is no denying that to use the butter knife to
bread baking as with baking scrape the excess cornmeal off
anything is a delicate the bottom and sides of the
process. bread as you may not care for
the taste of cornmeal.
Bread baking involves so many
things that first time bakers This bread baking secret will
are often discouraged after a work whether you're baking a
few failed attempts to turn batter bread or a rising bread
out professional looking and also called yeast bread. I
tasting loaves. personally use it for both.
Little do they realize that Here is another treasured
if they only possessed the bread baking secret, this one
professional Baker's secrets only for batter breads:
bread baking would be so easy
that the bread would On the last ten minutes of
practically make itself! its baking time cover the
bread pan containing the
For instance: How many batter bread with another
amateur bakers know the secret bread pan a steel bread pan
to keeping bread from works best, and leave it on
sticking to the pan every until the bread is finished
time? baking.
None! So when they try their This will keep the batter
hand at bread baking for the bread from burning or becoming
first time their bread sticks too hard on top. You may
to the bread pan, and ends up vary the time you leave the
a crumbled mess if they try to steel bread pan on according
force it out. to how your batter bread
usually looks when it is
Then they cry and give up finished.
thinking that the problem lies
with them. If it is a very dark brown on
top and difficult to slice
The shocking truth is that it because the top is so hard,
doesn't! then 20 minutes will work
best. But if it is just a
The problem lies with their little too hard on top and a
lack of knowledge of THE little too brown the 10
baker's bread minutes should suffice.
baking secret.
Do not cover the bread at all
The secret professional chefs if it usually comes out
and bakers won't tell you, golden and soft on top after
the secret they guard so the baking is completed.
jealously.
You may also glaze a batter
My father happened to learn bread on top with a tablespoon
this bread baking secret in of melted butter mixed with a
his younger baking days and tablespoon of honey, and
has passed it on to his sprinkle some flaked coconut
children ever since. or sliced nuts on top of that.
Okay, okay, I know you're
probably screaming at me by To glaze you start by taking
now Beth, get on with it! the bread out of the oven five
Tell us the bread baking minutes before the required
secret already! baking time is finished, then
spread the butter/honey
So here it is; You will need mixture on top of the bread,
only one tool besides for the sprinkle on your coconut or
oil and bread pan you already chopped nuts and bake for the
have, and that is quite simply remaining 5 minutes.
CORNMEAL you shouldn't need
more than 1/4 to 1/2 cup for Here is another useful bread
two loaves of bread. baking tip for rising
breads...
Cornmeal? you ask
doubtfully. YES, cornmeal! If your bread loaves over
rise say because you were
No, you do not add the busy and forgot about them,
cornmeal to the bread then you can use a pair of
ingredients! That is not the scissors to cut off the excess
bread baking secret. sides, being careful not to
cut any dough from off of the
What you do is you oil your top.
pan as usual, and you lightly
sprinkle cornmeal on all of You may then use this excess
the sides and bottom of the dough to make rolls. You
bread pan. simply oil a pizza or cookie
sheet and form the dough into
Now you can safely place your several small balls.
bread dough into the pans
without fear of it sticking to Rise them for another half
them. hour and then bake on 350
degrees Fahrenheit for 15 to
While your bread is baking 20 minutes or until golden
instead of sticking to the brown.
pan, your bread will stick to
the cornmeal and slide easily Do yourself a favor and put
out of the pan when done these tried and tested bread
baking. baking secrets immediately to
use in your kitchen, and your
You may need to use a butter family will rave over the
knife and slide it in between results.
the pan and the bread before
turning the pan over and
allowing your bread to pop
out.
About the author:
Beth teaches bread baking how-to’s so simply that with her new eBook ANYONE can bake their own bread. Visit her website now at:
http://breadmaking.apt-products.com
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