Cresap Family

Cresap Family

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Clint the Breadmaker

 Since Christmas we have bought bread from the store twice. Clint has made such delicious bread that store bought bread tastes down right nasty. This bread is as light and fluffy as Wonder Bread but it is whole wheat--wonderful for sandwiches or toast or just eating! This what our counter looks like after a day of bread baking.
He spent a lot of time on the internet researching sour dough bread. He ordered a start from a San Francisco company and nursed it to life. He has several sourdough recipes.
My favorite is his Dutch Oven version. It takes a day and a half and the dough is so low on flour that it has to be poured into a hot dutch oven like a thick batter. The result is a perfect crust with a moist interior. Yum! Have you been wondering why I've gained weight since Christmas? Now you know why.

He also makes perfect French bread which takes three or four days and is wonderful. Maybe I should have him rewrite the post so he can use all the real bread making words like "sponge" and "crumb" and I don't know what else!

We just found out yesterday that Talmage is allergic to wheat and dairy. We bought some gluten free bread from the store and it is pretty much hard and dry and tasteless. Clint has his next bread challenge.

7 comments:

Katie said...

oh no! tal is allergic to wheat and dairy!!!??? my mom is gluten-free and bought some really good gluten-free bread from costco when she was here. it was left over and i ate it all up and was surprised how good it was.
so i can attest to clint's delicious bread. i ate so much toast when i stayed with you. I couldn't get enough!
love you guys!

PhilHale said...

Oh, how scrumptious looking! So Clint, have you tried whole wheat sourdough?

kate said...

yum!!!! i would love clint's wheat bread recipe!

olderockhouse said...

His Bread is light and delicious! Thanks for the Loaf! I would love you to do a light and moist Gluten free variety. I have some great flours if you want to experiment... P.S. Sarah if you get the opportunity, and it isn't too hard, will you change out Haley's picture once in a while so we can see her other pictures. I want to see more of her cute expressions.

olderockhouse said...

Thanks for the new Haley pic! I haven't seen that one! Love her!

olderockhouse said...

PS... The Gluten Free / Dairy free cookies were incredible. I can't believe they were altered. Everyone is still raving about them!

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