World Bread Day2007: Zucchini Bread

October 16, 2007 | Filed Under Bread, World Bread Day, Baking | 18 Comments 

 

I’m on a bread baking roll after making my first bread the other day.  So exciting!  This is fun and addictive as someone commented.  I decided to try another recipe from Ruth Daniel’s book, Every Kitchen Tells its Stories.  This time, I tried the Zucchini Bread recipe.  I did not add chocolate chips but I used walnuts and raisins.  I never heard of zucchini in bread but this certainly tasted good.  Surpringly good.  Another bread-baking success for me.  Yay! 

Today, October 16 is World Bread Day 2007 and this is my second contribution.  Thanks Zorra for hosting the event.

Paz

 

 

 

 

Zucchini  Bread

Every Kitchen Tells its Stories – Ruth Daniels

Ingredients:

1½ cups sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp baking powder

¾ tsp baking soda

2 cups grated zucchini (not peeled)

3 eggs

1 cup vegetable oil

1 cup raisins or cranberries or other dried fruit

1½ cup chocolate chips or nuts or combination

1. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder and soda.

2. Add zucchini to flour mixture.

3. In a separate bowl, blend eggs with oil until light and fluffy. Add to flour/zucchini mixture. Stir until evenly moist. Add raisins, nuts and/or chocolate chips. Pour into 2 greased and floured 9×5 loaf pans.

4. Bake at 350°F/180°C for 45-50 minutes, until loaves test done (firm and springy when you press the center). Cool for 15 minutes before removing from pans.

5. To bake muffins, same as above except bake for only 20-25 minutes at 400°F/200°C, in the center of the oven.

 

Hands-on time: 20 minutes
Baking time: 1 hour
Makes: 2 loaves or 25 muffins

 

World Bread Day 2007: Challah

October 14, 2007 | Filed Under Bread, World Bread Day, Baking | 17 Comments 

 

Check it out, y’all!  Check out it!  I baked my very first bread!  I made my very first Challah!  Yay!  I’m so excited!

October 16, 2007 has been designated World Bread Day 2007.  Zorro of Kochtopf is hosting the event, as she did the year before.  So, I decided to use the opportunity to make Challah — one of my favorite breads and something that I always wanted to try making.  Last year, for World Bread Day 2006, I bought bread and blogged about it but baking my own bread is definitely more fun.

I used the recipe from our fellow foodblogger, Ruth Daniel’s cookbook Every Kitchen Tells its Stories.  It is one of the recipes that caught my eye when I first recieved the book.  It wasn’t so hard to make.  A little time consuming but not so hard.  The majority of the time was spent  allowing and waiting for the dough to rise.  I  braided the dough and it looked very nice but when I pulled it out of the oven, the braids hadn’t stayed together.  The braids sort of broke apart.  Hmmm…

The smell of the baking bread wafted throughout the home.  It not only smelled delicious but left a feeling of comfort in the air.  I left the bread in the oven a tad bit too long and it turned out darker than I would have liked.  Oh, and I think I put too much sesame seeds on the top.  No matter.  I liked the end result.  My challah tasted really good, especially coming straight out of the oven.  There’s nothing like eating warm bread on a nice cool day. 

All in all, it was a good experience making my first bread. I think I’m going to bake more bread!

If you’d like to know more and participate in World Bread Day 2007, go here for more information.

Paz

 

 

 

Challah

Every Kitchen Tells Its Stories by Ruth Daniels

 

Ingredients:

1 tsp sugar

½ cup warm water

1 package yeast

½ cup vegetable oil

¼ cup sugar

2 tsp salt

2 eggs, lightly beaten

3¾ cups flour (more if needed)

1 egg yolk beaten with 1 tsp water

Poppy or sesame seeds

 

1. Dissolve 1 tsp sugar in ½ cup warm water in a large mixing bowl, which has first been rinsed with hot water. Sprinkle yeast on top and let it stand for 10 minutes. Stir to dissolve.

2. Add oil, sugar, salt, eggs and 1½ cups of flour. Beat well. Stir in an additional 1- 1½ cups flour or so*. The dough should be sticky.

3. Cover the dough in the bowl and let it rest for 10 minutes.

4. Turn the dough out onto floured board and knead for 10 minutes, adding flour as needed (just a sprinkle on the board and your hands to keep the dough from sticking).

5. Round up the dough in a greased bowl. Cover and let the dough rise in a warm place until double in bulk (about 1½  - 2 hours). Punch down, cover and let it rise again until double (about 45 minutes).

6. Divide the dough into 3 equal parts**.  Shape them into strands. Place on a lightly greased baking sheet and loosely braid. Fasten ends securely by folding under the challah***.

7. Preheat oven to 400°F/200°C.

8. Cover with a damp cloth and let it rise until double (30-45 minutes).

9. Brush with beaten egg yolk and sprinkle with seeds. Bake for 30 minutes or so, until golden. Cool on cake rack.

 

 

 

Announcement: World Bread Day 2007

September 8, 2007 | Filed Under Announcements, World Bread Day | 5 Comments 

 

Hi Folks,

Last year, Zorro of Kochtopf hosted the very first World Bread Day event among food bloggers.  She’s doing it again.  This year, it’ll take place on October 16, 2007.  Below is  your invitation to participate.  Come join in the fun!

Paz

 

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Last year’s World Bread Day was such a great and successful event. Thanks to all the participants I could present a huge basket of bread filled with breads from 6 continents!

So I’m very happy to announce the second World Bread Day, which again takes place on October 16th.

The original World Bread Day - an event created by UIB International Union of Bakers and Bakers-Confectioners - wants to provide an opportunity to talk about bread and bakers, to find out about their history, their importance as well as their future.

Let’s bake and talk about bread on this day again! Everybody is cordially invited to participate.

The theme is open, just bake a bread with or without yeast, use sourdough, experiment with different flours, add some seeds… It’s up to you!

You never have baked a bread before? Well, give it try! It’s easy and once you have this smell of your own fresh bread in your kitchen, there is no way back. If you have no time to bake a bread, you can buy one at your favorite bakery and write about the bread and also the bakery.

No idea what kind of bread you should bake? You don’t need to reinvent the wheel bread! Inspiration you find e.g. here, here and here.

I’m looking forward to see a huge basket filled with breads from all over the world again!

How to participate:
Please read and follow carefully the instructions below. email and link back are mandatory, if one of them is missing your entry will not appear on the roundup. Thank you for your understanding.

• Bake or buy a bread, take pictures (if possible) and blog about it on Tuesday, 16th October 2006.

• Please link back to this announcement in your post, and eventually to the roundup.

• Send an email to worldbreadday(at)gmail(dot)com including


- your name
- your blog’s name and your blog’s URL
- the recipe name and the post’s URL
- your location (region and country)

• Submissions can only be accepted until Wednesday, October 17.

I try to post the roundup (incl. your pics) on the following weekend (October 20/21).

If you have any question or suggestion don’t hesitate to contact me.

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NOTE:  You can reach Zorra with questions or suggestions here:  WorldBreadDay [@] gmail [dot] com

 

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