I’ll show you how to make it some day.” Peasant Bread Variations And when this happens, I hope you will all just smile and say, “Don’t be silly. It is a bread I hope you will all give a go, too, and then proudly serve at your next dinner party to guests who might ask where you’ve stashed away your bread machine. Genuinely, I would be proud to serve this bread at a dinner party attended by Jim Lahey, Mark Bittman, Peter Reinhart, Chad Robertson, Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois. It is peasant bread, spongy and moist with a most-delectable buttery crust. This is not artisan bread, nor is it trying to be. It bakes in well-buttered Pyrex bowls - there is no pre-heating of the baking vessels in this recipe - and it emerges golden and crisp without any steam pans or water spritzes. There are two wildly popular no-knead bread recipes out there.īut unlike the others, this is a no-knead bread that can be started at 4:00pm and turned out onto the dinner table at 7:00pm. So what, you probably are wondering, makes this bread so special when there are so many wonderful bread recipes out there? Again, the answer is simple. If you don’t, you have more than enough treats to keep people happy all night long. I would even go so far as to say that with homemade bread on the table along with a few nice cheeses and a really good salad, the main course almost becomes superfluous. Not once have I served this bread to company without being asked, “Did you really make this?” And questioned: “You mean with a bread machine?” But always praised: “Is there anything more special than homemade bread?”Īnd upon tasting homemade bread, people act as if you’re some sort of culinary magician. And the reason for this is because people go insane over homemade bread. I whole-heartedly believe that if you know how to make bread you can throw one hell of a dinner party. I would almost in fact be OK ending the blog after this very post, retiring altogether from the wonderful world of food blogging, resting assured that you all had this knowledge at hand. When I tell you that, if forced, I had to pick one and only one recipe to share with you that this - my mother’s peasant bread - would be it, I am serious.
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