Zoji bake of edna staebler bread with clas
One of the first bread books I bought was a little paperback, Baking With Yeast w/Schmeck's Appeal by Edna Staebler.
Many say her Neil's Harbor Bread never fails and it is true.
I used to make it with all AP and 2 TB of diy for 9 c flour.
But, I made a few ingredient modifications, followed a very simple mix and knead in the Pansonic 2550 Bread Machine (15 min):
The seeded loaf is 35% freshly milled wheat and rye. 2nd picture below. (1st picture is standard lean clas loaf. Both baked in Zojirushi.)
It is not a lean loaf but has 10% sugar and 10% olive oil infused with rosemary and garlic. 2% salt. (baker's %)
But the diy went down to 1 tsp since I had 30 gr of leftover clas (total 387 gr flour).
The loaf was brushed with olive oil and sprinkled with "everything bagel mix". The bake was in Zojirushi (Preheat 10 min and about 48 min bake; ending temp 207F)
It smells wonderful! Will see about crumb tomorrow! (see below)
Next day - crumb
Being Canadian, Edna Staebler (Food That Really Smecks) was a well-known name here "back in the day". All those Mennonite recipes must have done her good, she lived to be 100.
Anyway, your bread looks gorgeous and will taste wonderful.
Hi Moe,
Thank you for stopping by :)
I enjoyed reading her bread book - especially about how she and her friends gobbled up roll after roll and the recipes they swapped.
Sounds like the people on tfl!
I'lll take an end slice, thanks :)
Hi Precaud,
The foil over the window keeps resulting in golden loaves! One of the best bm enhancements ever. :) I think I can just give a brush of olive oil from now on rather than make up a mix of powdered milk and milk. I am really liking it!
BTW, I picked off the end piece first too.
We have Precaud to thank! I wonder how the crust would turn out if you baked the same bread in the Panasonic bread maker.
Yippee
Hi Yippee,
Thank you for your kind words. :)
You are so right about the foil. Then there is clas too.
I have not experimented much with baking in the Panasonic due to the size of loaf pans I use. Precaud gets nicely browned loaves so no doubt loaves do well with it. (PS 2550 is a great kneader though.)
I hope your summer is going great!
The Panasonics aren't as spacious inside as the Zo's are, so most of your pans won't fit. Fortunately they come with nice cast aluminum breadpans.
On the 2550, to get the good 350-360º baking and browning, you have to use one of the built-in programs. The bake-only program is for sweet breads and cooks at a measly 285º, even worse than the Zo's!
I didn’t know that picking that a baking program was important. I’ll give it a try. Can i swap the pan?
If it will fit. I'm curious, what pan is it?
it is a winccosteammpan, the squarish one with high sides; it is aluminum so it is not dark;
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