Something I Did Today - Plain Pan Loaf.
Food Processor Loaf
3 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour , plus extra for work surface
2 teaspoons table salt
1 cup milk , warm (110 degrees)
1/3 cup water plus 2 tablespoons, warm (110 degrees)
2 tablespoons unsalted butter , melted
3 tablespoons honey
1 package rapid-rise yeast (also called instant)
- Set up your oven so that one rack is low-ish, and a second one is just low enough below it to put a pan on it.
- Heat oven to 200, leave it at 200 for ten minutes, turn it off.
- Mix flour and salt in food processor (vroom vroom).
- Mix everything else in a bowl. For some reason, the recipe I used lacks this instruction, but yeah, mix that stuff around. Let it sit for five to ten minutes.
- Add wet stuff to dry stuff in food processor; process until rough ball forms. Let rest for two minutes. Process 35 seconds. Turn onto floured work surface; knead by hand until "smooth and satiny," 4 or 5 minutes.
- Put dough in lightly oiled bowl; rub dough around bowl to coat in oil. Cover with plastic wrap; put in warm oven 40-50 minutes.
- Bust out your (buttered!) 9x5x3 loaf pan. Press dough into long rectangle, one inch thick and no wider than the length of the loaf pan. Take your strip of dough and roll it into a cylander; press with your fingers to make sure the dough sticks to itself. Pinch the seams closed; press it lightly so the dough touches all the sides of the pan.
- Cover in plastic wrap. Stick somewhere warm until doubled in size, 20-30 min. Heat oven to 350F.
- Boil two cups of water; dump it in another pan. Place the pan on a lower rack of the oven. Remove plastic wrap; place pan-with-bread on upper rack. Bake 40-50 minutes, or "until instant-read thermometer inserted at an angle from short end... reads 195 degrees." Yeah, I, uh, just baked it for 46 minutes.
- Remove from oven; take out of pan; put on cooling rack; cool to room temperature; eat delicious buttery bread.
If for some reason you don't have a second pan or something? Or are incapable of boiling water? You can replicate the steam thing by chucking two ice cubes in your oven.
(Recipe from Cooks'. Holla.)
3 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour , plus extra for work surface
2 teaspoons table salt
1 cup milk , warm (110 degrees)
1/3 cup water plus 2 tablespoons, warm (110 degrees)
2 tablespoons unsalted butter , melted
3 tablespoons honey
1 package rapid-rise yeast (also called instant)
- Set up your oven so that one rack is low-ish, and a second one is just low enough below it to put a pan on it.
- Heat oven to 200, leave it at 200 for ten minutes, turn it off.
- Mix flour and salt in food processor (vroom vroom).
- Mix everything else in a bowl. For some reason, the recipe I used lacks this instruction, but yeah, mix that stuff around. Let it sit for five to ten minutes.
- Add wet stuff to dry stuff in food processor; process until rough ball forms. Let rest for two minutes. Process 35 seconds. Turn onto floured work surface; knead by hand until "smooth and satiny," 4 or 5 minutes.
- Put dough in lightly oiled bowl; rub dough around bowl to coat in oil. Cover with plastic wrap; put in warm oven 40-50 minutes.
- Bust out your (buttered!) 9x5x3 loaf pan. Press dough into long rectangle, one inch thick and no wider than the length of the loaf pan. Take your strip of dough and roll it into a cylander; press with your fingers to make sure the dough sticks to itself. Pinch the seams closed; press it lightly so the dough touches all the sides of the pan.
- Cover in plastic wrap. Stick somewhere warm until doubled in size, 20-30 min. Heat oven to 350F.
- Boil two cups of water; dump it in another pan. Place the pan on a lower rack of the oven. Remove plastic wrap; place pan-with-bread on upper rack. Bake 40-50 minutes, or "until instant-read thermometer inserted at an angle from short end... reads 195 degrees." Yeah, I, uh, just baked it for 46 minutes.
- Remove from oven; take out of pan; put on cooling rack; cool to room temperature; eat delicious buttery bread.
If for some reason you don't have a second pan or something? Or are incapable of boiling water? You can replicate the steam thing by chucking two ice cubes in your oven.
(Recipe from Cooks'. Holla.)