Due to the rather big
amount of yeast this bread is best eaten the day it is baked but to my mind it also made nice toast and sandwiches throughout the week.
This year I discovered homemade sourdough bread which is amazing,
none of yeast bread compares to that except this one.
I quickly discovered that when you don't have time for the
rising of a yeast bread, quick breads and biscuits will fill in quite nicely for the short term.
A sponge, a poolish and a biga are all ways of getting more flavor
out of a yeasted bread, and to use less yeast than you otherwise would.
The pizza base was a scone - like dough that used store - cupboard ingredients, which I was very happy to see, because I've never quite got the
hang of yeasted breads.
A popular choice for traditional Southern recipes, these can also be soaked or cooked and added to a
variety of yeasted breads for more texture and flavor.
My plan is to post a
series of yeasted bread recipes, starting really easy and getting more complex, so you can work your way up to being a yeast pro.
I decided that this would be the best recipe to share for Part 3 of Conquering Yeast — a 3 - post series on learning to love baking with yeast — because it's on the hard
end of yeast breads.
This gluten free English muffin bread is an interesting
example of yeast bread: it is a very wet dough that you don't really shape in the «traditional» sense.
And yes, the picture is
of a yeast bread, but that relates to the discussion of various types of breads.
These types
of yeast breads are often referred to as batter breads because the mixed dough is not kneaded and has a sticky batterlike texture.
A goal I loosely decided upon this year is to conquer my «fear»
of yeast breads.
I love using this product to cut the rising time down in
some of my yeast bread recipes.