Bread Baking Day #56: Fashionable Bread

2013 bread making is off good start.  Jenni from The Gingered Whisk is the hostess for Bread Baking Day #56. She challenged us to bake a beautiful bread, worthy for any fashion show.  


For the bread itself, I chose an egg bread recipe from the Red Star Yeast website.  I thought I had one tucked away in one of my bazillion cookbooks, but, no, I couldn't track it down.  Never fear, though, the Red Star Yeast site has a huge selection of tasty-sounding breads.

For the shaping, I wanted to use a technique I discovered in my ramblings around the web.  Basically, you roll the dough into a thin oval, then make diagonal slashes about an inch apart over the whole oval.  Then, you roll the dough jelly-roll style and finally, coil the resulting tube like a snail.  The slits in the dough provide a beautiful texture on the surface of the bread.

This is one bread that is visually appealing and tastes pretty gosh darn good as well.

Thanks to Jenni for a fun theme, and to Zorra for creating such a wonderful bread event.

Jenni should have the roundup available after the first of February.  Then, stay tuned on Zorra's website for the February challenge.