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I have been wanting to make some of those rustic breads you keep seeing in the bakeries. I have tried a couple recipes, but it just isn't like the bakery breads. Could it be I need a pizza stone or maybe I just don't have the right recipe. Thanks in advance for your help!By the way, thanks for putting together this forum! We need a site like this big time!
-- Jane (jbl@nelet.com), January 20, 2002
There is nothing as heartwarming as a good rustic bread! To make a really great one takes commitment. As with most works of art there are no shortcuts. I found a good one in Julia Child's baking book (I don't recall the exact name of the book since I only checked it out of the library) She has a recipe that takes no special ingedients or equipment called Artesian Bread(I think). I made it and it was wonderful and worth the work and time it took. I only made it once since it did take 3 days to make!Diana
-- Diana (dvance4@juno.com), January 20, 2002.
what is rustic bread?
-- Rose (open_rose@hotmail.com), January 20, 2002.
Jane... it's really heard to duplicate the bakery bread because they use a huge commercial oven, and in the case of "rustic" bread, it's cooked directly on the floor of the oven. A pizza stone will help, also did you try spraying the inside of your oven with water to create steam? This helps to develope that nice crunchy crust.Rose.. rustic bread is a bread that is coarse in texture and usually baked in a round loaf. The composition is very simple, water, flour, salt and yeast. It may or may not be fermented. As in using a starter, and allowing it to ferment overnight. It makes great soup bread.
-- Lynelle (x2ldp@aol.com), January 20, 2002.
I heard on Martha Stweward once to use cast iron bread pans. Don't know where ou'd find them.
-- Cindy (SE. IN) (atilrthehony@hotmail.com), January 21, 2002.
There are many bread recipes at www.countrylife.net in "bakery" in the "recipe bin". In fact there are over 2,000 recipes. I should know, transferred most of them for the owner of the site when he redesigned the site after a major crash.Help yourself to them, I collected many from other locations plus my own and those contributed by other participants. I got permission from one lady named Ogla (similar to that), a German lady who posted great recipes. Recipes by "Ann" are also German as a rule and she is a great baker. You can't beat the old time German cooks. Many other excellent bakers plus professional bakers too.
No, I do not have a part in the site, just a 4 year participant. Still answer questions there on a regular basis.
Marie
-- Marie (prettyhollow@yahoo.com), February 03, 2002.
What is Artesian Bread? What makes a bread an Artesian bread?Thanks!!!
-- Holly Moose (holly_moose@yahoo.com), March 04, 2004.