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Pumpkin Swirl Bread
Pumpkin pie and brioche are two of my all time favorites, so why not combine the two. The result is a bread rich with butter, eggs and spiced pumpkin puree. Spreading the pumpkin onto the brioche dough and rolling it into a log creates the swirl pattern when you cut it. The bread is gorgeous and tasty, perfect for Thanksgiving or just a fall morning with a cup of coffee.
Next week is the official release of our book The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. Woot! To celebrate we are doing a giveaway, before the book even hits the stands. It is a small token of our appreciation for all your help in creating this new edition. We’ve incorporated what we’ve learned from your comments, your questions and your suggestions. Please leave us a comment below about your favorite experience baking bread or what you are most eager to try. We will give away 5 copies of the new book to randomly picked winners next week.* Thank you! Our usual contest rules apply (click here for rules); you need to respond within 24 hours of notification or we have to pick someone else. CONTEST CLOSED, WINNERS CHOSEN AND NOTIFIED 10/22/13.
To make the Pumpkin Swirl Bread:
Corrections to first printings of The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day (2013)
These errors snuck through in the first printings of The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day–the important problems were with the gluten-free recipes:
Page 83, Crock Pot Bread, Step 1: Add the words “Place it on a sheet of parchment paper.”
Page 176, footnote under Ingredients: Remove “can substitute white whole wheat.” That won’t work well in this recipe.
Page 224, Step 4 in Spinach and Cheese Calzone: Should call for an orange-size piece, not grapefruit-size.
Page 268, Ingredients list for Gluten-Free Master Recipe: The metric weight of brown rice flour should read 155 grams, not 160.
Pages 268 and 275, Ingredients lists for Gluten-Free Master Recipe and Gluten-Free Challah doughs: Early editions of the book omitted sorghum flour, which is essential here. If your copy of the book doesn’t call for sorghum flour in those recipes, add 1 1/4 cups (5 1/2 ounces / 155 grams) of Sorghum flour to the Ingredients lists. If your copy calls for sorghum, don’t make any changes, except… on page 268, note that the correct gram-equivalent for brown rice flour is 155 grams, not 160 grams (it’s not a major difference in the result).
Page 272 (Gluten-Free Whole-Grain Seeded Bread): The metric weight of brown rice flour should read 310 grams, not 280.
Page 286 (Gluten-Free Sweet Brioche): note new quantities for rice flour and tapioca, and the addition of cornstarch. The Ingredients list should be changed as follows:
White rice flour: 1 1/2 cups (8 1/2 ounces / 240 grams)
Tapioca flour: 1 cup (5 ounces / 140 grams)
Cornstarch (new ingredient): 4 cups (22 ounces / 625 grams); add it in Step 1, page 287
Use only melted butter in this recipe, not oil (omit oil from ingredients list)
Page 325, Step 9 (Soft American-Style White Bread): Increase baking time to 60 minutes.
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Beautiful Day, and a Pizza Recipe, at the 3rd Annual Minneapolis Bread Festival
This past Saturday, I had another opportunity to demo our pizzas and flatbreads at the 3rd-annual Minneapolis Bread Festival and Baking Contest at the historic Mill City Market in downtown Minneapolis. It was a beautiful day, and the pizzas came out great. The request for the organizers: just get whatever’s fresh and beautiful. Here’s the result (most of these beautiful photographs are courtesy of the Mill City Times). Read on for a pizza recipe, pizza tips, and some beautiful shots from a beautiful day, or check out my entire book on pizza, Artisan Pizza and Flatbread in Five Minutes a Day. Read More
Thanks, Library Journal, for the review of the New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day
From the review: “VERDICT: With this revised edition, Hertzberg and Francois continue to perfect their already easy and immensely popular bread-baking method. Essential…”
Thanks!
Grilled Pizza On A Charcoal Grill
We’ve made a lot of grilled pizzas here at Bread in Five, but almost all of them have been on a gas grill. If you’ve ever attempted a pizza on a charcoal grill you know why this is: the pizza is much easier to manage, and there is less change of burning when it’s not over flaming hot coals. However, many people do not own a gas grill, and so we set out to figure out some helpful tips and tricks in making a charcoal grilled pizza a little bit easier. Twenty pizzas later, and we finally have something for you.
There were quite a few things we learned along the way: bread flour makes a nice, sturdy dough, olive oil in the dough keeps the pizza from sticking to the grill, building a hot and cool side in the grill is a must, and keeping the pizzas on the small side makes them easier to manage.
The new edition of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day is now available
So excited about this NEW version of the first book, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. So, what’s new? It’s nearly 150 pages longer, with lots of new recipes, techniques, and WAY more photos (40 gorgeous color and 100 black-and-white instructional shots). There are over 30 brand-new recipes and fun variations, including Crock Pot Bread, Pull-apart Rolls, Pretzel Buns, Stuffed French Toast, gluten-free breads, and lots more.
All the old favorites are still there, and thanks to your suggestions, there are weight measures added to all the dough recipes in the book, both U.S. (pounds/ounces) and metric (grams). The Tips and Techniques section’s expanded, and includes instructions for adjusting salt and yeast to your taste.
As always, you’re pre-mixing dough that can be stored in your refrigerator for up to two weeks, so active time is still only five minutes a day. There’ll be much more to talk about in October when the book hits the stores, but we just had to give you a sneak peek at the beautiful new cover.
Two years in the making, this sixth-anniversary edition of the first book–The New Artisan Bread In Five Minutes a Day–is available from online sellers. Thanks for all the feedback you’ve given here on the website–it’s shaped the new book. Cheers!
Keep baking bread all summer long–outside!
Below, one of my posts from years back, on baking loaf breads on the gas grill in my backyard. Some folks were having trouble with the bottom scorching and one solution is to crumple a bunch of aluminum foil and put it under the loaf so it insulates under the parchment.
Even in Minnesota it’s 83 degrees today, so out to the gas grill I went. Last summer, I did pizzas, and other breads on the gas grill (I like the Weber gas grills for this), but I never tried baking on a gas grill with a closed cast iron pot. The results are terrific– the crust is much better than last summer’s projects because the Dutch Oven traps steam next to the bread–you don’t have to add any other steam to the baking environment. But you also need to use a pizza stone under the pot, or it can scorch. Read More
Star Spangled Berry Pizza on the Grill
There is nothing more American than grilling on the 4th of July, well, maybe a star spangled pizza is the most patriotic of all. This is a super fast pizza that is ideal for breakfast, which I just served my family this morning, or can be throw together at your holiday BBQ as dessert. I made the pizza in a small baking sheet, but you can make a larger one if you have a crowd to feed.
Happy 4th of July! Read More