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magidYesterday I brought a couple of rye breads in to work, along with some grapefruit curd and butter, as toppings.
Last night I made a chocolate bread dough (I put in ginger, too, but not enough to be noticeable, unfortunately), later rolling it into two loaves with a swirl of chocolate chips through it. Since I baked them early this morning on time bake, however, they had a long second rise, and so the chocolate swirl is rather more like a line. Still, it's pretty nice. The bread is not sweet, but the chocolate chips are, and both are reasonably chocolatey. The orkers are eating it, anyway, despite lack of email notification, which is pleasing.
I think next up may be cinnamon-apple-walnut bread. That, plus a batch of challah, may get me close to the end of this bag of flour!
I had the oven wake me up a bit early this morning. After getting the chocolate bread out, I started another batch of bread dough (multi-grain, this time), boiled some artichokes, roasted potatoes and onions, cut up a pineapple, and roasted cauliflower. Six non-impossible things before breakfast...
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Last night I made a chocolate bread dough (I put in ginger, too, but not enough to be noticeable, unfortunately), later rolling it into two loaves with a swirl of chocolate chips through it. Since I baked them early this morning on time bake, however, they had a long second rise, and so the chocolate swirl is rather more like a line. Still, it's pretty nice. The bread is not sweet, but the chocolate chips are, and both are reasonably chocolatey. The orkers are eating it, anyway, despite lack of email notification, which is pleasing.
I think next up may be cinnamon-apple-walnut bread. That, plus a batch of challah, may get me close to the end of this bag of flour!
I had the oven wake me up a bit early this morning. After getting the chocolate bread out, I started another batch of bread dough (multi-grain, this time), boiled some artichokes, roasted potatoes and onions, cut up a pineapple, and roasted cauliflower. Six non-impossible things before breakfast...
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Date: 2003-04-09 09:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-09 09:31 am (UTC)But perhaps after Passover, chocolate^3 bread pudding, or even chocolate^4 bread pudding...
(chocolate^3: chocolate bread with cocoa powder and chocolate chips in the bread pudding.
chocolate^4: chocolate bread with chocolate chips, then cocoa powder and chocolate chips in the bread pudding.)
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Date: 2003-04-09 10:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-09 10:28 am (UTC)(Probably not until the middle of Passover, if not later...)
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Date: 2003-04-09 10:41 am (UTC)however, every time i glance out the window, prospects get dimmer.
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Date: 2003-04-09 10:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-09 10:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-09 10:06 am (UTC)˚
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Date: 2003-04-09 10:08 am (UTC)now, my stomach is all recovered :)
(not for long though; pizza lunch!)
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Date: 2003-04-09 10:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-09 10:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-04-09 10:32 am (UTC)"
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Date: 2003-04-09 09:13 am (UTC)must...have...recipe... :-)
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Date: 2003-04-09 09:37 am (UTC)I've seen a recipe for gingerbread with chocolate frosting, though, in either Home Cooking or More Home Cooking, both by Laurie Colwin. She's got an essay about the glories of gingerbread that's just lovely to read.
What I did was a riff on the chocolate bread recipe in the DK (Dorling Kindersley) bread book. Basically, I made my usual white bread dough, but added a bunch of cocoa (half a cup, perhaps? I didn't measure, but I think that's what the original recipe called for, with the bread dough at about 7-9 cups of flour), and less-than-that sugar (a quarter to a third of a cup, maybe). What I'd intended was to have a slight edge of ginger, but I didn't add enough ginger powder for that to come through. I don't know how much I added, but a couple of significant shakes, at least. (I feel like a centuries-old cookbook. Sorry about the lack of quantities.)
I have made ginger^3 bread: ginger tea instead of water, ginger powder and crystallized ginger in the dough. That worked very nicely, as did the variation that put the crystallized ginger and chocolate chips swirled into the dough before the second rise.
I was thinking that this bread would be a bit like that last. Next time I'll balance the ginger better, perhaps using ginger tea again. I would've added bits of crystallized ginger with the chocolate chips had I had any at home (I was kicking myself: I had some at work).
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Date: 2003-04-09 11:38 am (UTC)*grin* That is just so . . . appropriate.
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Date: 2003-04-09 11:42 am (UTC)The lack of alarm clock makes me creative when I have to get up early...
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