Rustic Kibbled Wheat Rye Loaves Food

SPELT BREAD

Steps:

• In a cup, combine 3/4 cup of warm water, 1/4 cup of honey and 2 tbsp of yeast. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, combine 2 2/3 cup of warm water, salt and oil.
• Add half flour and yeast mixture.
• Stir well.
• Add remaining flour and knead for about 8 to 10 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 200 degrees Fahrenheit (95C) and then turn off.
• Grease an ovenproof bowl and place dough in it. Let rise in oven. Punch dough down.
• Divide into three, place into three greased loaf pans, poke holes in loaves and let rise again.
• Bake 425 degrees Fahrenheit (220C) for 20-25 minutes.

NORDIC WHOLE-GRAIN RYE BREAD

Steps:

• On Day 1, make the starter: In a medium-size bowl, mix 3/4 cup warm water with the buttermilk or yogurt. Whisk flour and yeast together, add to the buttermilk mixture and use your hands to mix together until sticky and moist; add more warm water as needed. Cover tightly and set aside at cool room temperature overnight, or up to 24 hours.
• Also on Day 1, soak the grains: Mix 4 cups cold water with the rye berries (or meal) and sunflower seeds. Cover and set aside at cool room temperature overnight, or up to 24 hours.
• On Day 2, make the bread: Drain the soaked grains in a colander. Measure 35 ounces/1,000 grams of the grains and place in a deep bowl. Add 14 ounces/400 grams of the starter and mix well. (Any remaining starter can be saved to use with other bread recipes.) Add the flour, salt, malt (or molasses), yeast and 2 cups water. Mix dough firmly by hand to combine. The dough should be grainy, but quite runny and wet, almost like a thick batter. To achieve that texture, add cold water, 1/4 cup at a time, mixing after each addition. To test: When a walnut-size piece of dough smeared on the rim of the bowl slides slowly and smoothly down the inside, like a snail leaving a trail, the dough it is wet enough.
• Thickly butter 3 medium or 2 standard-size loaf pans. Divide the dough evenly among the pans, filling them about half full. Cover and let rise at room temperature until dough almost fills pans, about 2 hours. (Dough will not rise more during baking.)
• Heat oven to 450 degrees. Bake loaves for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 360 and bake until firm and glossy brown, 80 minutes to 2 hours more depending on size and moisture content of loaves. Let cool completely in the pans before turning out. Bread freezes well, and lasts for at least a week at room temperature, wrapped in paper.

RUSTIC RYE BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup warm water. Stir in brown sugar, molasses, caraway seeds, oil, salt and remaining water. Add rye flour, whole wheat flour and 1 cup all-purpose flour; beat on medium speed until smooth. Stir in enough remaining all-purpose flour to form a firm dough. , Turn dough onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease the top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1-1/2 hours. , Punch down dough. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; divide in half. Shape each into a round loaf; place on a baking sheet coated with cooking spray. Cover with kitchen towels; let rise in a warm place until almost doubled, about 1-1/2 hours. Preheat oven to 350°., Bake until golden brown, 30-35 minutes. Remove from pan to wire racks to cool.

RUSTIC KIBBLED WHEAT & RYE LOAVES

Steps:

• Put the water, milk & yeast into a small container & mix. Leave for 10 minutes.
• Put the oil, salt, brown sugar, biga & flour into a large bowl. Add the yeast/water mixture and stir with a wooden spoon for 1 minute.
• Using a mixer with a dough hook (I have hand mixer with two dough hooks), mix for 8-10 minutes. The dough will be very sticky & is not suitable for kneading by hand (I thought about it but don't be silly like me!).
• Cover & leave in a warm place until nearly doubled (this took me about 1 & 1/2 hours).
• Scrape out of the bowl onto a very well floured bench & gently split into 3 equal portions (I used a very sharp knife). Gently fold into loose rounds & leave to rest for about 1 hour. You need to be gentle as you don't want to knock the air out of the mixture.
• Gently shape into the form you want, being careful not to knock the air out of the dough. I gently stretched two of these into slipper shapes, and cut the other into 6 rolls, and rested each of the three portions on separate pieces of parchment paper. Being careful, put small dimples on the tops of the loaves & leave until doubled (about 1 & 1/2 hours for me).
• Just after doing this heat your oven & baking stone to 240 degrees Celsius.
• Once the loaves have doubled, bake as many as your stone can handle (mine was one portion at a time) for 5 minutes on 240 degrees Celsius. Lower the temperature to 200 degrees Celsius & bake until the base sounds hollow when tapped (about 30 minutes in total for a loaf, 20-25 minutes for the rolls).
• To get a nice crust spray the oven (taking care not to get the bread in the process) with water once or twice during baking.
• Once cooled these loaves freeze easily - I normally put them into a freezer bag with a twist tie & pop them in the fast freeze section of my freezer. I then let them defrost on the bench, or if you make rolls you can let them defrost & pop them into the oven on 200 degrees to warm them through.
• For Vegan use only the water.

RUSTIC POTATO LOAVES

Steps:

• Scrub the potatoes and cube them into large pieces, peel on.
• Toss into a pot, cover with water, add 2 teaspoons salt, and boil until they are completely cooked through.
• Draw off 1/2 cup of the water from cooking the potatoes and set aside; drain the potatoes, and then spread them out flat to dry completely.
• It is a very important to let the potatoes dry and cool for at least 30 minutes prior to mashing. Leave the peel on.
• Once the 1/2 cup water has cooled to tepid, add the yeast and allow to bloom for 5 minutes.
• Put the dried, cooled potatoes in the KA with the paddle attachment and mash smooth; yes, the peel is still on. It looks weird, but let it go.
• When the potatoes are mashed completely, add the bloomed yeast/potato water, and the olive oil. Mix until combined.
• Change to dough hook. Add the flour and the remaining 2 tsp.kosher salt all at once and mix for about 3 minute on low speed, then increase to medium speed and mix for 11 minutes more.
• The dough will be firm at first and soft at the finish. It will look very dry to begin with, like pie dough, but do not add more liquid and do not add more flour, even if you are tempted. Just leave it and let it go. The flour will be absorbed.
• The end result will be very nearly the texture of brioche dough, very soft, almost a batter. You should stop the machine a few times and scrape the dough down off the sides and bottom of the bowl, then let it continue to mix.
• Scrape the dough into a greased bowl, cover with plastic and let rise for 35 minutes. The dough will rise slightly but will not double.
• While the bread is proofing, put your rack in the bottom of the oven and put your pizza stone in.Heat the oven to 375 degrees.
• Invert a baking sheet and place a piece of parchment on it- this will be the resting place for the bread's final rise. Sprinkle the parchment lightly with flour.
• Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and divide it in half. Shape each piece into a torpedo shape, with tapered ends. Place the loaves on the parchment and cover with a towel.
• Let rise at room temperature for about 35 minutes.
• At the end of 35 minutes, slide your loaves onto the pizza stone, and using a spray bottle, spray the oven walls with water and then shut the door quickly to trap the steam.
• Bake the loaves for 50 minutes, spraying the oven with water occasionally.
• When they are done, the breads will be very brown, will sound hollow when thumped, and the interior temperature will be about 200 degrees F.
• Remove from the oven and let cool for at least 20 minutes before slicing.
• NOTES: The first time I made this bread I thought the recipe just had to be wrong on every count. It is very different from any bread I've ever made. But please, follow the directions faithfully and you will be rewarded! These loaves are gorgeous- beautiful- very crusty and brown and smell soooooo good. When I first made them I couldn't wait until they cooled completely so I cut off an end piece and bit into it. It was fantastic! I was surprised that the potato peel didn't make any distinct difference to the texture. I thought it would.The resulting bread was very distinctly tasting of potato. It was soft, as potato breads are, but yeasty and a little dense(in a good way) and had a wonderful crusty exterior.It was fantastic! I think you are going to love these.
• NOTE 2: If you don't have a pizza stone, just bake them on a sheet pan.It won't be quite the same, but it will be close enough.

RUSTIC COUNTRY BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water. Let stand 5 minutes. Add salt, vinegar and 1-1/2 cups flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough (dough will be sticky)., Do not knead. Transfer to a greased bowl. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 50 minutes., Stir dough down. Transfer to a greased 9-in. pie plate. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 35 minutes. , Preheat oven to 425°. Brush with oil. Bake 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 375°; bake 10-15 minutes longer or until golden brown, spritzing twice with additional water.

RUSTIC WHOLE WHEAT BREAD

Steps:

• Stir all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, brown sugar, instant yeast, and salt together in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a dough hook attachment. Whisk water and oil together in a cup; pour into flour mixture. Mix on low speed until dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl into a ball.
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface; knead just until dough is smooth, about 1 minute. Divide and shape dough into 3 balls for small loaves or 2 balls for larger loaves. Dust loaves with flour and place onto a baking sheet; cover with a towel, and let rise until doubled in size, about 25 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Slash an "X" about 1/4-inch deep in tops of loaves with a sharp knife.
• Bake in the preheated oven until loaves are golden brown and sound hollow when tapped, about 25 minutes. Remove from oven to cool completely on a wire rack.