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Mon, Dec 15, 2008

New Holiday Bread

Posted at 8:04 pm MST to Technology

No dairy, but I can have eggs now (I'll see how it goes. I used brown sugar to add back some flavor, since the oil has ver little compared to butter.

1 cup well-fed (not too sour) sourdough starter
1 1/2 tsp pickling salt
1/2 tsp fiori di sicilia
1/2 tsp vanilla
2/3 cup light brown sugar
1/3 cup light olive oil
3 eggs
raisins
fruitcake fruit
orange and lemon peel
all purpose flour

Dredge raisins and fruit in flour before adding to the dough.

First rise in the mixing bowl.

Second rise in the ceramic pandoro pan.

1. minutes at 350, lower heat to 300 and cook another 45 minutes or until it reaches a temp of 190+ in the center. I am pleased: it rose well and the outside didn't burn despite the long baking time.

Let it rest 15 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto the cooling rack to finish cooling. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. It came out of the pan nicely -- I used PAM for Baking.

Tastes good. It will be good for breakfasts and snacks, maybe with some strawberry or apricot preserves thinned with a little water, nuked, and drizzled on.

Real pandoro would have butter, and more eggs, and longer, slower rises.

I love the bread proofing feature of the new oven: I keep the house fairly cold and sourdough rises slower than commercial yeast, so the rises took forever took forever.

In related news, the shipping fees for the broiler pan set from Whirlpool have finally hit my credit card, so it appears that the pan and racks have reached this continent, at least. I should plan to broil or roast something for Christmas dinner, to celebrate.

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