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Default Success:) (Corn Bread)

On 10/16/2014 5:51 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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> "pltrgyst" > wrote in message
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>> On 10/15/14, 3:08 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>> The loaf I made today is a great colour and dh *loves* the flavour)
>>>
>>> It didn't rise much and is fairly dense, but I didn't really hope for a
>>> good
>>> rise since it was half corn and half bread flour . BUT he says the
>>> flavour
>>> is even better than the one we bought from the baker which started me
>>> off on
>>> this experiment! Needless to say, I am very pleased)

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>> Congratulations! But which recipe was this first effort?
>>
>> Tnx -- Larry

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> All along I used my Ciabatta recipe as the base.
>
> I doubt you want to know my first efforts. The bread was good but no
> taste of corn. I had used only 100g! It was always pure guesswork.
>
> What I ended up with was:
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> 2 tsps dried yeast
> 2 tsps sugar
> 250g fine corn meal
> 250g strong bread flour
> 3 tbls oil
> 300 ml water
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> It is dense with not much rise, but dh just told me he prefers dense
> bread (???) lol
> The wholemeal bread I make and which he likes is fairly dense, but not
> so much as this one
>

I'm keeping that recipe to try!

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