Pumpkin Bread
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Its not too terribly interesting but my recent flop with pumpkin muffins makes this an achievement. I have to add a story, when I made the pumpkin muffins, they rose when I checked , but when they were done, they had craters in them!!!, so I called the mini mount mazamas floppins and presented them to my daughter.I told her these are floppins and they are different from muffins in that they have flopped in the middle and are gooier, and, she said yummy and she did eat them. She actually asked for more the day they got over!!! So I then revealed the secret that they were muffins that flopped. The reason they did were, if you saw curious george episodes, was that with baking you have to be precise, with the muffins that I made, I just used my pumpkin puree, leftover cranberry sauce and bisquick, the consistency wasn’t right and of course that resulted in the “floppins”.
Anyway the bread I made is a sweet bread and I made it in the breadmaker. The breadmaker manual has a recipe for Zucchini bread, I substituted pumpkin for zucchini and I didn’t have baking powder so I substituted baking soda + buttermilk for that [some amount of research into that was done before hand], and ground flax for eggs. When I turned it on and the dough was being formed it didn’t look right so I added breadflour and a dollop of butter, so with all these variables the chances of a huge floppin was high, but, thanks to my timely interventions it turned out good.
I have a baking book that I had bought in Borders a while ago and it has good recipes to make tea breads, but I find not so many interesting recipes for tea breads for bread-machines. If someone reading this blog has any, please send me some. I have a ‘flop’py record with sweet breads in bread-machines.
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