Any Home Bakers Here?

[pennyJo1960]

did I forget to message that I did get my cookie cutters today making shortbread rooster tomorrow

 

[ronott1]

did I forget to message that I did get my cookie cutters today making shortbread rooster tomorrow

Have fun baking!

 

[pennyJo1960]

sure will looking forward to it .. dried and put away dishes as BF did them so I have clean kitchen to start with

 

[DigMyChicks]

All of the talk about Christmas cookies... check out this girls videos:

I would love to decorate like that! I do cookies like that but not that kind of detail. Beautiful!

 

[Aria]

rjohns you mentioned Cast Iron????? Did you bake your bread in
a cast iron dutch oven? OR?

I do have a cast iron dutch oven.....and if you do use cast iron do you great it? Inquiring minds want to know how you baked your bread. Thanks Aria

 

[Aria]

rjohns you mentioned Cast Iron????? Did you bake your bread in
a cast iron dutch oven? OR?

I do have a cast iron dutch oven.....and if you do use cast iron do you great it? Inquiring minds want to know how you baked your bread. Thanks Aria

 

[Aria]

rjohns you mentioned Cast Iron????? Did you bake your bread in
a cast iron dutch oven? OR?

I do have a cast iron dutch oven.....and if you do use cast iron do you great it? Inquiring minds want to know how you baked your bread. Thanks Aria

 

[Aria]

I do NOT know why so many repeat posts. rjohns I wanted to know
what recipe....what type of pan...and temp of the oven. I want to have the same results. Thanks Aria

 

[rjohns39]

rjohns you mentioned Cast Iron????? Did you bake your bread in
a cast iron dutch oven? OR?

I do have a cast iron dutch oven.....and if you do use cast iron do you great it? Inquiring minds want to know how you baked your bread. Thanks Aria

I used Deb's refrigerator bread recipe and my 10" cast iron dutch oven. I'll adjust water in the recipe to be sure it's at least as shaggy as the pictures or even a little more as the water makes the steam. When I pull the dough out of the fridge and work it into a ball, I line a bowl with parchment and cover with a towel. I put the ungreased dutch oven in the oven and set to 450*. Then I set the timer to 40 minutes. I'll pull out the dutch oven, pick up the dough with the parchment paper and put paper, dough and all into the dutch oven. I try to smooth out the paper without burning myself, then put the lid on and back in the oven. Bake for 30 minutes, then remove the lid and paper, put the bread back in the oven and bake without the lid an additional 5-15 minutes to crisp up the crust. I tend to like 10 best with my oven. Then just pop the bread onto a cooling rack.

 

[rjohns39]

@ronott1 normally I use white wheat for my whole wheat breads. Today I'm going to try Deb's recipe with all wheat flour, but thinking about either red wheat or spelt instead. I know whole grain flour takes more water, is there anything else I should be considering?