Winter Loaf

Becky has baked some wonderful breads over the past several years and she has especially has increased her baking during these past two pandemic years. I wrote about her pandemic joy of baking and the problem with getting yeast. She has come to understand that baking bread is a science and a good cookbook with great recipes is essential.

Today she baked a wonderful winter loaf from a recipe out of A Bake for All Seasons from the Great British Baking Show that Sean and Ashley gave her for Christmas. It was a Paul Hollywood recipe from the show and in the book is called Winter No-Knead Loaf.

Baking this particular bread was something new for her. It was an artisan bread similar to a sour dough bread and the unkneaded dough had to sit overnight under a towel to rise. The recipe called for baking the bread in a Dutch oven but Becky decided to use a pizza stone instead. There needed to be water in the Dutch oven to create steam in the oven so she placed a pan of water in the bottom of the oven to get the steam. Everything went well and we had a wonderfully baked bread for dinner tonight.

This was a recipe from one of the hosts Paul Hollywood. We had a laugh that he was looking over her shoulder, critiquing the bake and exclaiming it was a little bit stodgy.

I think in the end he would have shook her hand.