Sunday, June 7, 2009

Easy bread, and inexpensive

I had been looking for a fool proof recipe to make french baguettes that was easy and simple with little work(as opposed to a recipe that's perplexing, difficult and virtually guaranteed to fail).
Big thanks to Warren Prince recipe. I have made bread using his technique and I must say that it is easy and wonderful. The bread comes out crusty and light. I have triple the ingredients the last two times I made bread. Why make 4 loafs when you could make 12! It takes the same amount of time and effort.
After I crunched the numbers, given that you buy the bread flour(12 bucks for 50 pounds) and the yeast (4 bucks for a pound) from costco, each loaf cost about 36 cents, including the cost of baking them. I used to buy bread of similar quality for about 2 bucks. Total savings for one day baking 19.98 dollars.
Now you must wonder how can anyone eat so much bread before it goes bad. Simple, you must be french to be able to intake such large quantities of bread in a short time. Other nationalities are just not built to handle all of the bread without OD'ing.
Actually I put them in bags and freeze them(got a big freezer). I used the bags that came with the bread I bought from the store or just wrap them in plastic. They will be as delicious once thawed. Follow this video from Warren Prince.

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