Sept. 2002, Mini Food Demo: Late Night Bread for Syl, White Bread Tricks
Fearless Leader: you could do a blend
Fearless Leader: or do layers
Fearless Leader: depending on the bread
Fearless Leader: the inside can be white like this
Fearless Leader: or you can yellow it, add semolina to your clay mix
Fearless Leader: cure and slice while hot for a more mealy sort of
bread
Fearless Leader: I'll reduce some of this larger bread log and show
you how I do the toasty tops, ok?
Fearless Leader: want to know the trick to toasty tops?
sylsnovelties: I didn't realize we could slice right out of the oven.
sylsnovelties: Yes, toasty tops!
Fearless Leader: cakes that are layered need to be cut after curing
Fearless Leader: or you mash your cake and spoil the frosting
Fearless Leader: pizza with cured topping
sylsnovelties: ahh, good point.
Fearless Leader: can't cut while the bottom and top are raw
Fearless Leader: I tried
Fearless Leader: didn't work
Fearless Leader: what a disaster
Fearless Leader: but anyway
Fearless Leader: this here white bread
Fearless Leader: let's make a loaf
Fearless Leader: and give it a toasty top
sylsnovelties: ok
Fearless Leader: by putting a thin layer of melted cheddar cheese mix
on top of the loaf
Fearless Leader: my odl and dirty melted cheddar cheese stash
Fearless Leader: I use it for everything
Fearless Leader: ok
Fearless Leader: for this loaf, I'll reduce, form, and then put a
slice of the melted cheese on top
Fearless Leader: and then show you how to slice the top of the loaf
Fearless Leader: for the light layers to show through the slashes
sylsnovelties: ok.
Fearless Leader: you know how bread is slashed on top
sylsnovelties: Right!
Fearless Leader: like that..
Fearless Leader: off I go
Fearless Leader: see
Fearless Leader: thin
sylsnovelties: ahh
Fearless Leader: hilda brb
sylsnovelties: ok
Fearless Leader: back
Fearless Leader: ok, that thin sheet of melted cheddar cheese mix
Fearless Leader: it's going on the top of the loaf
sylsnovelties: ok
Fearless Leader: and it'll be smeared down the sides for a fourth of
the way
Fearless Leader: like where the bread is sticking up out of the pan,
that far
Fearless Leader: ok?
sylsnovelties: ok
Fearless Leader: now to slice the top
Fearless Leader: then
Fearless Leader: you smear that toasty tip
Fearless Leader: top
Fearless Leader: into the cuts there
sylsnovelties: Would you look at that!
Fearless Leader: on the top
Fearless Leader: like this
sylsnovelties: Oh, I see what you are doing!!!
jude: Look at that!
Fearless Leader: ok, let's say we want dinner rolls
Fearless Leader: take some bread cane
Fearless Leader: and mash it like this
Fearless Leader: we're going to use the circle cutters to get our
rolls
Fearless Leader: but not before
Fearless Leader: TOASTY TOP
sylsnovelties: ahh
Fearless Leader: the thinnest setting
Fearless Leader: see how thin
Fearless Leader: I'll stretch it more
Fearless Leader: we're looking for a light toasted look
Fearless Leader: and the translucent clears up a lot after curing
Fearless Leader: so go thin and it won't even look like you added this
layer
sylsnovelties: ok
Fearless Leader: so I'm going to put this sheet of toasty top
Fearless Leader: on this mashed bread cane
Fearless Leader: and look for the right sized cutters
Fearless Leader: eeep
jude: eep?
jude: eeep?
Fearless Leader: my work area is a disaster
Fearless Leader: and I couldn't find my cutters
jude: Oh, more like an egads!
Fearless Leader: I found them now
sylsnovelties: thank goodness you can't see mine.
jude: Mine is pretty messy, too.
jude: sign of a good worker.
Fearless Leader: see how thin that toasty top is?
sylsnovelties: Sure is. What color is the cheddar cheese mix?
Fearless Leader: melted cheddar cheese
Fearless Leader: not unmelted
Fearless Leader: different color that
Fearless Leader: I'll cut you a dinner roll that is slightly larger
than usual
Fearless Leader: so you can see
sylsnovelties: ok
jude: See the mark the cutters leave in the center?
sylsnovelties: yeah
Fearless Leader: now smear the toasty top down the sides, ya but we're
cutting a cross on this bun
jude: Mine do that. Ticks me off.
Fearless Leader: so it's no matter
jude: Okie.
sylsnovelties: Jude, when it leaves that center mark, you could cut
that out and make a donut!
jude: LOL
jude: Hot cruss buns.
jude: er...hot cross buns
sylsnovelties: ooh, criss cross bread!
jude: Oh, neat...braided loaf.
Fearless Leader: then smear the toasty top down the sides
Fearless Leader: smear it down on all sides
Fearless Leader: let some of the light show through
Fearless Leader: but not much
Fearless Leader: just a hint of white bread inside
Fearless Leader: heavier toasty top on top
sylsnovelties: Yummy
Fearless Leader: less as it goes down the side of the bread loaf
sylsnovelties: what color mix is in the melted cheddar?
Fearless Leader: it's a touch of brown, more of orange, tons of
translucent
sylsnovelties: ok, thanks!
Fearless Leader: now if you have some left over translucent mix
Fearless Leader: that would look like candied fruit
Fearless Leader: red, yellow, green
Fearless Leader: that sort of thing
Fearless Leader: cure them
Fearless Leader: and then sprinkle them on a braided loaf like this
Fearless Leader: for panetone
sylsnovelties: oh, good idea
Fearless Leader: that braided bread is a bit of a hassle, but it's
well worth it