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Thermomix Recipes for TM5 and TM31 => Bread => Topic started by: Carine on January 12, 2012, 05:41:51 am
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I've been making a plain white crispy cobb for a few years but it wasn't until I got the French cookbook Mille et une pates...a pain that I adjusted the cooking temperature to get the nicest possible result. I couldn't see this info in the bread section so here you go :):
For a lovely crust try to :
- put a loaf tin filled up to about 2-3 cm with water in your oven, to create a humid environment
- preheat your oven to 230- 240 deg C, 20mn before you bake your bread
- slash your bread just before you slide it in the oven
- bake it at 230-240 deg C for the first 30mn, then at 200 deg C for 15mn.
I also slide my bread on a pizza stone.
Hope my explanations make sense- can't seem to find my english words today :-\
Oh, and here is a pic of the bread I made today (550g laucke bread flour- 320g whey instead of water, but water works just fine- 2tsp dry yeast- 1/2 tsp salt). Very basic ingredients but it works!
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Great tips - thank you!
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Lovely looking crust.
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Carine, loaf looks great. Like you I usually slash the top just before I put it in the oven. Some professional bakers suggest slashing when 3/4 through 2nd. rise. Is the Laucke flour the mix or the Organic Baker's flour.? If it is the mix, then the salt is already included. If it is not, then 1 teaspoon of sugar or honey may help with the rising.
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Carine, your loaf looks wonderful.
Thanks for sharing your tips. X
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Do you like the book carine?? ....its one of my favs and im loving the soup book too..especially at the moment :)
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Carine, your bread looks amazing.
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Thanks ladies :)
Achookwoman, I use the Laucke "crusty white" bread mix. I still like adding some salt (only 375mg/ 100g in the mix) as it strengthens the dough.
Frozzie, I do like the bread book! I'll probably make a few more "viennoiseries" when the weather cools down here.
This book took a while to get to me... As you know I got my mum to get it from TMX France in August. BUT by November I still hadn't received it :-\ So my mum ordered a second copy which arrived 10 days after posting in December. The sad thing is that the first copy turned up a week ago!!! My mum has now decided to insure every single parcel (the first book parcel wasn't :() Will never know who stuffed up : La poste or Australia Post...
By the way does any french speaker want a copy of 1001 pates..a pain and A table avec Thermomix - french version of every day cooking ? I'm wiling to post these in exchange for a few recipes :)
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Carine, my daughter would adore the bread book . . . .if it's still available please let me know - either here or PM. Many thanks!!!
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Carine, that bread looks amazing. I will have to come down (after CMAA and the hot weather finishes) and get some bread making advice.
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Goldfish, I've PMed you..
Not a pb DG! Should really organize a New England thermomixers gathering... after the frantic CMAA ;)
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That happens carine.... Sometimes ive totally forgotten about a parcel and when it eventually arrives its suchba surprise...very annoying though but if not too expensive i often get parces insured...you never know!!
Ive msde the painbauxvraisins....very yummy and just like yhe boulangere...havent got ariund to the pain au chocolat but i want to order the choc strips that go inthem..too many things to try....its my fav french book...but they are releasing more and more and appsrently there is a family one but i have never sen it as its always out of stock but everyone is raving about it...will have to wait and see (not to ge confused with petit plats grands tables..thats a diff book)
If you ever want anything from over here xarine just let e know.....i know you have your mum but if ever you need anything just let me know.
;D
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Merci Frozzie. T'es trop gentille :-*
I agree : too many recipes and not enough time to try them all!
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;D dh thinks life isnt long enough to try all the recipes i have :D :D :D