This month's Fresh from the Oven challenge was for a white tinned loaf from the lovely Dan Lepard (The Handmade Loaf). Yet another FFTO challenge that I'd had my eye on for a while, but hadn't gotten around to baking!
This one was SO GOOD when I baked it last week, that I made it again today. It's amazing. So soft, so buttery, so sweet. It's like cake - but a cake that you can make into a sandwich.
So imagine my devastation when today, when I came to write my blog post about my new favourite bread recipe, and found out that I'd baked the wrong bl**dy recipe. There are two simple white loaves with milk in them in Dan's book. The one we were SUPPOSED to bake was the Quick White Loaf on page 63. I baked the Simple Milk Loaf on page 46. Gutted.
The two are quite similar - the one I baked uses 100% milk as it's hydration, (instead of part water, part milk), and has butter and syrup in it. It's dead easy to make, but has a long-ish fermenting period - so I stayed in today and baked it along side a plain white sourdough.
So here I am, on the eve of the Fresh from the Oven challenge deadline, with the wrong loaf. To top it all off, today's sourdough became really vigorous during the final two hours of rising, and blew up and out of my new cane proving basket - which is all yucky and sticky now. Oh, and because of the rain, the TV isn't picking up ITV, so I can't even watch the XFactor results. I'm off to go sulk now.
Here's a photo of the milk loaf though - it's wonderful:
