Hello people, I don't usually declare myself genius to the world but after taking a bite of this bread fresh out of the oven, I clapped my hands and declared myself genius and did a happy dance! ( I wanted to declare a national holiday too, but that would be going a tad bit overboard).
Well, actually, it is the authors of the Artisan Bread in Five Minutes that are geniuses. As I had mentioned in earlier postings, I love, love, love this book. Last week I made their deli rye bread and this weekend I decided to make their Pumpernickle bread with the lovely organic rye flour I had on hand. I modified the recipe by adding whole wheat and increasing the amount of rye (I just cant bring myself to make breads which has more than half white flour ratio--just seems wrong, if you going to be making home made bread may as well use the more interesting textured flours). I also added fennel seeds into the bread mixture (the recipe called for a sprinkle of caraway seeds to scatter on top). Now the most wonderful and exciting thing for me about this recipe was that I got to use coffee and cocoa in the batter. You can tell how excited I was to mix this batter when I readily gave up (sacrifice, really) my morning coffee (that I brewed with a french press) to go into this mix before I had some myself (I had to brew a second batch). I was that eager to get the bread mixed and rising! It was worth it!
I have been enjoying this hearty and fragrant bread with slices of avocado and tomato drizzled with olive oil.
Do I see cheese in the photo? A decadent open face sandwich.
ReplyDeletep.s. Just requested Artisan Bread in Five Minutes from my local library!
ReplyDeleteGood eye! Yes, parmesan cheese :)
ReplyDeleteThe authors also have a new one called Healthy Breads in Five Minutes a Day which they use more multigrain flours. I try and do that now by just subbing the white flour with other interesting flours and nuts into their basic recipe. Let me know how it goes. Enjoy!