Two weeks ago I bought buttermilk for the OA intern potluck. My plan was to make Irish Brown Bread from Alice Waters' new book, however the potluck was cancelled...and it's hard enough to find a recipe for buttermilk...I used half for the lemon buttermilk cake and last week I used the other half for, what else, Irish Brown Bread. For some reason it never occurred to me that I could make Waters' bread despite the cancelled dinner, but it made for a pleasant Thursday evening activity. I used a recipe from one of my latest blog finds:
Kiss my spatula.
My favorite part of this bread was the whole wheat flour. I finally put my
CLG flour that I've been stocking up on to amazing use! The bread came together fairly quickly and I was afraid to over-knead it so I ended up under-kneading I think...next time I'll use less salt, knead it more, and make more shallow cuts in the top of the bread. Fresh out of the oven, with a little CLG butter melting into the bread, very satisfying. I also wanted to add something into the dough like flax or poppy seeds but I'm not sure if they'd act funny?
