Orange Juice and Pear Cider Breads Experiment
My bread making addiction is not going away. I scarified my sleep to make bread all night last night...with a few naps here and there through out the process! This is one of the things I really enjoy doing and it keeps me going...
I really enjoyed reading Emmanuel Hadjiandreou's "How to make bread". One of his recipes using beer to replace the water as an biding agent. I thought, if we can use milk, water or beer as a binding agent in bread making..surely (why not) using other liquids such as orange juice (or may be not?) would be ok too! I thought the orange juice would give the bread some orange-y flavour! It is a crazy idea worth trying, for fun!
I really enjoyed reading Emmanuel Hadjiandreou's "How to make bread". One of his recipes using beer to replace the water as an biding agent. I thought, if we can use milk, water or beer as a binding agent in bread making..surely (why not) using other liquids such as orange juice (or may be not?) would be ok too! I thought the orange juice would give the bread some orange-y flavour! It is a crazy idea worth trying, for fun!
Orange Juice Bread
This orange juice bread is just your usual simple wholemeal bread, instead of using of water, I used orange juice as a replacement. Warm the juice a little before pouring it to the dried yeast.
For some reasons, the dough rises very slowly for this bread. It took at least 8 hours to get the dough to rise to its double in volume. (Perhaps my flat is a bit colder than normal household!) The end result is a bread with a little sour note from the orange juice. Unfortunately, It doesn't have the orange flavour I was hoping for. It tastes a bit like a sourdough bread actually!
For some reasons, the dough rises very slowly for this bread. It took at least 8 hours to get the dough to rise to its double in volume. (Perhaps my flat is a bit colder than normal household!) The end result is a bread with a little sour note from the orange juice. Unfortunately, It doesn't have the orange flavour I was hoping for. It tastes a bit like a sourdough bread actually!
Pear Cider Bread
This pear cider bread is inspired by Emmanuel Hadjiandreou's "Beer Bread". Instead of nettle ale in the recipe book, I thought I prefer the smell of the pear cider! I used wholemeal flour instead of malthouse flour and skipped the flour sifting process (a bit lazy), and arranged the doughs into different configuration! Other than that, I followed his recipe to the letter.
The end result...the bread has ONLY VERY subtle scent of the pear cider (maybe beer would produce stronger flavour?). but it is a good bread nonetheless! Now I have to think what I can do with this breads!
NOTE: I do not get any commissions from him to promote or review his book (unfortunately!). I think it is a good bread making book to have on your shelf!
The end result...the bread has ONLY VERY subtle scent of the pear cider (maybe beer would produce stronger flavour?). but it is a good bread nonetheless! Now I have to think what I can do with this breads!
NOTE: I do not get any commissions from him to promote or review his book (unfortunately!). I think it is a good bread making book to have on your shelf!
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