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Sometimes you need a small gift for a relative, friend or colleague. What can you give them? Homemade bread is always a welcome gift. Eric Treuille and Ursula Ferrigno, authors of "Ultimate Bread," think "a meal isn't a meal without bread."
Bread is good food, according to the authors, and making it "enlivens your kitchen and your life." Their book divides bread into seven categories: basic, sourdoughs, flavored, enriched, flat, quick, and festive. Treuille and Ferrigno think accuracy is the key to successful bread making.
"The basic techniques of making bread are not complicated or difficult to follow," they explain. "Successful breadmaking, however, requires time and patience." Though bread baking cannot be rushed, the invention of quick-rise yeast has shortened the process. Quick rise, or instant yeast, is sprinkled directly onto the flour and starts to work as soon as it becomes moist.
Tomato-basil bread has a pale red color and smells fantastic when it comes out of the oven. Like most breads, it tastes best warm. You can make the bread ahead of time and freeze it. Cover the loaves well with plastic wrap and, for added protection, put them in a plastic zipper bags.
When it is time to give the loaves away, take them out of the plastic bags and put them in decorative cellophane bags, which are available from hobby stores. Enclose the recipe if you wish, and tie the bags closed with ribbon. It is impossible to smell this bread and not want some. So the first time you make the recipe, keep a loaf for yourself. Homemade Tomato-Basil Bread is a gift your relatives and friends will remember for a long time.
Ingredients
2 cups tomato juice
3 tablespoons butter (no substitutions)
3 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 1/2 teaspoons dried basil
1/4 cup ketchup
1 package quick-rise yeast
6 1/2 cups bread flour (approximate)
Method
Put tomato juice and butter in a small saucepan. Heat over low heat until butter melts. Add sugar, salt, basil, and ketchup. Cool to lukewarm. Transfer liquid to a large mixer bowl. Add 3 cups flour and quick-rise yeast. Insert dough hooks in mixer and beat dough on medium speed for 2 minutes. Add enough of the remaining flour to make a medium, moist dough. Knead on a floured surface until smooth and elastic. Spray a large bowl with cooking spray. Transfer dough to bowl. Turn over once to grease the other side. Cover with a towel and let rise until doubled. Take dough out of bowl and divide in two. Let rest for 10 minutes and shape into 2 loaves. Place in prepared pans. Cover and let rise until nearly doubled. Bake in a 425 degree oven for about 25 minutes. Tent with nonstick foil if tops start to brown too quickly. Cool bread on wire racks. Makes 2 large loaves.
Copyright 2009 by Harriet Hodgson
Harriet Hodgson has been an independent journalist for 31 years. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Association of Health Care Journalists, and Association for Death Education and Counseling. Her 24th book, "Smiling Through Your Tears: Anticipating Grief," written with Lois Krahn, MD, is available from Amazon.
Centering Corporation has published her 26th book, "Writing to Recover: The Journey from Loss and Grief to a New Life." The company has also published a companion resource, the "Writing to Recover Journal," which contains 100 writing prompts. Please visit Harriet's Website and learn more about this busy author and grandmother.
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