A few days of holiday celebrating makes one forgetful of everyday necessities such as bread. Okay, I'm fibbing a bit...bread is never far from my mind. What I mean to say is the baking of bread was put on a few day hold around here while we visited family. But a stray thought around 10 am will inspire a rapid paging through a bread book for a quick and simple --but new!-- recipe for bread for lunch.
Have you ever seen a rise method quite like this one??
From these murky depths will come....
....bread as big as my head! Please pardon: the mirror--it's the orginal glass and is full of imperfections. the flower--pipe cleaners + tissue paper + a 7 year old = a vaseful of flowers that I forgot to move. me--fresh off the treadmill and the shower but not a single other thing put into my appearance!
Weissbrot slices very well even when it's piping hot. <---A bread no-no but there were 4 hungry children and myself to feed. I think we tried it every way--with turkey and cheese, spread with soft butter, smeared with spicy cinnamon butter, and topped with melted cheese. The inside was soft and tender; the crust a little thicker than one would normally expect to find on white bread. Perhaps that is because it's German White Bread?
(It's because the dough gets sprayed with water at the onset of baking and partly through baking that helps it develop its crackling crust. It's also baked like a hearth bread; it is formed into a boule and allowed to bake free form.)
