Today's culinary experiment

[sylvar]

Nutmeg Bread

850g bread flour
13g bread-machine yeast
2 cups warm water
3 Tbsp vegetable oil
6 Tbsp [orange blossom] honey
2/3 tsp salt
1 tsp ground nutmeg

Makes two loaves. I made one loaf for sandwiches and subdivided the rest of the dough.

Half a loaf's dough became a braided loaf to pull apart and dip into a sauce.

The other two quarters got stretched into roughly 10″ × 7″ (each) rectangles. I filled the bottom of each with something yummy (savory: leftover tomato-sage cream sauce, and sliced kalamata olives; sweet: cherry preserves) and folded them over into 5″ × 7″ pockets. Although I pushed down the edges, both of them leaked in the oven -- though not terribly much. Maybe I'll cut the slits into the top more deeply next time.

I really like that this dough complements either a savory or a sweet filling/topping. That means my sliced loaf will do a great job with cold cuts or with PB&J, and still have more flavor than boughten bread.

Comments

[tealfroglette.livejournal.com]

i remember going to meet someone i thought was a very southern lady poet. Turns out she's a wild animal tshirt wearing person too, but i used that word, 'boughten' to describe my floral shorts i wore to meet her b/c she was having me on and said she was wearing a dress she'd made. :)

[tealfroglette.livejournal.com]

*drool* pb and j on homemade bread!

[fizzgig-bites.livejournal.com]

Sounds yummie. Too bad it's poison.

[tealfroglette.livejournal.com]

*nod* i wish he would hurry up and learn how to make no wheat bread for us.

[loucheroo.livejournal.com]

Oh dear lord. I need this bread. Now. With softened salted butter.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

is it as yum as it sounds? *droooooooooooooooooooooool*

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, all I heard was "Oh dear lord, I need [static]. Now. With softened salted butter." I'm guessing you said "you", so I'll just hop in the car and head south.

And yeah, it's pretty good. Would have been better if I'd had some whole nutmeg to grate.

[loucheroo.livejournal.com]

*grin*

Thanks for the email recipe.