Beard On Bread

FAIL! I tried Beard‘s sourdough starter & bread recipe. While the loaf is otherwise perfect, the subtle flavor was off putting. You could taste the sour milk. I was totally suspicious about using milk for the starter and letting it sit for a week at room temp - with no feeds either. 🫢 #Mtcookbook

Going to try again with Emilie Raffa‘s recipe. That had good flavor, but not enough rise. I‘m going to cheat and add yeast when I bake the bread.

dabbe It sure looks fabulous, though! 🤩🤩🤩 5mo

Deblovestoread Beautiful looking loaf! 5mo

willaful Aw, bummer!

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Ruthiella Bummer! ☹️ 5mo

Cathythoughts Well , it looks delicious. I think my favorite food is fresh bread and butter. ❤️ 5mo

Velvetfur At least it looks pretty though! 😁 5mo

julesG Milk?! In the starter? That sounds offputting. I followed the starter recipe from the tagged book and my starter has been great for months. Even when left unfed in the fridge for weeks.

How to raise a loaf and fall in love with sourdough

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mabell It looks good! It didn‘t even work as toast? 5mo

Suet624 It looks gorgeous though. 5mo

Tamra @mabell I didn‘t even try bc I couldn‘t get beyond the sour milk. 😂 5mo

mabell That‘s fair 😂 5mo

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Tamra

Beard On Bread | James Beard

Found this Booker winner today as well and it appears Litsy readers aren‘t too fond of the MC. I‘ll be brave and take a peek. 🫣

The squirrels are driving Cooper crazy.

dabbe #crazyforsquirrelscooper 🖤🐾🖤 6mo

Suet624 Cooper is gorgeous. 6mo

Ruthiella They do it on purpose . Squirrels love to taunt! (edited) 6mo

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LeahBergen My Johnny fully approves of Cooper‘s squirrel skills. 6mo

Cathythoughts Cooper is handsome ♥️ 6mo

Gleefulreader I just picked this up in a used bookstore the other day! Now I‘m extra curious. 6mo

Tamra @Gleefulreader I just realized I didn‘t tag the right book. 😂 Me too, I‘m curious about why it‘s not well liked. 6mo

Tamra @dabbe @Suet624 @Ruthiella @LeahBergen @Cathythoughts Cooper would be a tornado if I could let him loose out there! 🌪️ He adds so much life & love to our lives. (edited) 6mo

Cuilin I loved that book!!!! It‘s years since I read it. it may have been the first Banville book I read, but it‘s certainly wasn‘t the last. 6mo

Tamra @Cuilin 👏🏾 I‘m glad to know! 6mo

Kerrbearlib Cooper is cute! 6mo

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Tamra

Beard On Bread | James Beard

Found this 1970 gem today. Beard thinks sourdough isn‘t worth the effort. 😂 Apparently different types of flours were hard to find then, so most of the recipes call for all purpose flour. Now it looks odd in a bread book.

Leftcoastzen Nice find! 6mo

jewright I love my sourdough! 6mo

Tamra @Leftcoastzen 👏🏾 6mo

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Tamra @jewright I love sourdough too! 6mo

mabell I tried the La Brea Bakery method for sourdough a couple of years ago, grapes and all, failed, then read Beard on Bread - I laughed at the sourdough opinion 😂 6mo

Tamra @mabell what an experiment! I didn‘t even know there was such a thing with grapes! I learn a lot from my “fails.” 🙃 I tossed my recent attempt at a starter (neglected it) and am going to try again. It is a bit of a babysitting job in the beginning. 6mo

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Bookwormjillk

Beard On Bread | James Beard

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I enjoyed reading these two cookbooks for #LMPBC

The La Brea Bakery book was way too much for me to attempt, but I enjoyed cooking from Beard on Bread.

I will get these packed up and mailed this week!

Amandajoy, mabell, Maria514626

mabell I‘m so glad you enjoyed Beard on Bread! I marked quite a few recipes I‘d like to try. Due to the time spent on my failed sourdough 🙄, I couldn‘t fit in many before I sent it on, but I flagged the pages in my old copy so I can get to them whenever. And this reminds me, I never posted my review on this one! 2y

Maria514626 I‘m looking forward to experimenting! 2y

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Larkken

Beard On Bread | James Beard

1. ❤️ roasted poultry. Let‘s hope the brine makes this year‘s as good as last!

2. Pumpkin pie 🥧

3. Fresh buttery rolls

I used to make bread a lot, but lately the size of my kitchen has limited me to special occasions so I'm really looking forward to #3! As for next year, we may have bought a house, so we'll have to see what happens!

Hope everyone has as exciting (in a fun way) thxgiving 😁

#sundayfunday @sebrittain

sebrittainclark ❤🧡🦃🧡❤ 6y

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Jess_Read_This

Beard On Bread | James Beard

"Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts." ???

For #90sInJuly, I'm confessing I #Wannabe a bread maker! I buy bread cookbooks at book sales, religiously add bread making pins to my Pinterest board, and follow a few IG accounts devoted to bread making. And yet am still too intimidated to make a loaf. I keep thinking I need more education!

#Cookbooks #Bread #Confess

Cinfhen, Robothugs

Lmstraubie Yum 🍞🥖 7y

Leftcoastzen Yum Yum! You will bake bread one day ,I bet. 7y

LibrarianJen My cousin is a chef/baker at a local panaderia (bread store). He makes delicious bread and is probably the only person I know who actually looks forward to going to work at 3 in the morning! 7y

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Cinfhen That's awesome 😍just go for it! I'm sure you'll be a terrific bread maker 😉 7y

Smarkies Start off with something basic first. Once you understand how dough works you will be intrigued. 😁 7y

mjdowens It really is a lot of fun! Just jump in and try a small loaf 7y

readinginthedark You could start with a non-yeast bread! I really struggle with a successful dough rise, but a basic sweet loaf? So easy! 7y

Jess_Read_This @Leftcoastzen @Cinfhen Awww! ❤️Thanks for the vote of confidence! 🍞 7y

Jess_Read_This @LibrarianJen Omigosh! How neat! Did he always want to be a baker? 7y

Jess_Read_This @readinginthedark @Smarkies Good tips! I think I was feeling intimidated reading the sourdough and milk bread recipes. It's probably best to keep it simple! 7y

Jess_Read_This @mjdowens Thanks for the encouragement!!! ❤️ 7y

LibrarianJen @Jess_Read_This Yes actually! We used to check out cookbooks from the children's section at the library all the time and made quite a fun mess in the kitchen. He veered more towards baking while I liked cooking better. 7y

Jess_Read_This @LibrarianJen I love that!! I'd love to see pics of his bread! I'm always looking for inspiration!💕 7y

LibrarianJen You can! Here's the bakery's website and if you go to their Facebook page you'll see tons of deliciousness. Look for pictures around November you'll see their famous turkey shaped bread! It's mostly my cousins boss and son in all the pics/videos. http://goldencrown.biz/wp/ 7y

Jess_Read_This @LibrarianJen Wow! He is so talented! I just followed the bakery on FB and can't wait for all the bread pics! 7y

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Ericmanciniwriter

Beard On Bread | James Beard

I'm sorry but I keep picturing a big hipster beard brushing against food and it makes me dry heave

LeahBergen I instantly thought the same thing!! Or a beard hair kitchen brush to dab on olive oil. 🤢 8y

StacksNShelves 😂 8y

BethFishReads I read this a million years ago and in all the years I read Beard, I never made that connection. Now I can't I think it 😳 8y

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mcipher Oh, I love that image! Gross but hilarious. Like that beer made with hipster beard yeast.... 8y

Ericmanciniwriter @mcipher wow now THAT is gross 8y

Ericmanciniwriter @BethFishReads sorry...😉 8y

Ericmanciniwriter @LeahBergen oh no! 🤢 8y

minkyb Yuck! 8y

BethFishReads @Eamann glad you figured out I meant "UNthink" it 8y

mcipher @Eamann http://buy.rogue.com/beard-beer/ I got it one year for my brother in law for Xmas. Don't know if he drank it... 😋 8y

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Waynegjr

Beard On Bread | James Beard

@Amyegia and I just set up some of our fav cookbooks on top of the fridge using these sweet new grisly bookends. (Yes, that is a signed note from Barack and Michelle, congratulating us on our wedding. Jealous?)

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