Country crumb bread

This is bread #5.

The interesting idea here is that you take bread crumbs from bit of your old bread that you didn't manage to eat (how is that possible? and yet it happens) and you add it to the bread. Otherwise this is a really basic hearth bread.

But the breadcrumbs speckle the bread and give it an interesting texture -- it looks like seeds in the bread, but since it's actually just more bread it's not as disruptive as seeds. It also changes the flavor a bit (they recommend you use crumbs from different types of bread). In this case, about half the crumbs were from the brioche, and I think that particular bread helped with the flavor.

I thought, on first bite, that this was a somewhat boring bread, but I then ran back for more of it. I think the texture of it is particularly good, and it's a non-flashy bread, which can be nice.

UPDATE: Upon further investigation, this bread was very salty. I put less salt in than the recipe called for, but it's still too salty. Not inedibly so, though!

Posted by chris at January 16, 2005 02:33 AM