It may sound arrogant, but it's really rare to find bread I'd pay for. I mostly bake bread by myself. It's convenient as I don't have to go all the way to my favorite bakeries to buy bread and also fresh homemade bread is tasty.
However .............. I recently happened to find a very very very tasty one. My daughter asked me to buy the bread at an organic store. First I said No as we have dinner later but she said "good to try everything" and I was convinced. I liked her "wiseman saying" 😁 I'm glad I said Yes to her in the end.
It was heavy dark bread with fine strong sour taste. The weight was noticeable when I put it in a paper bag at the store. It definitely fits well with red wine, butter, cheese ... autumn/winter food.
My daughter and I liked it so much. We saw the receipt and figured its name out. It was written "Portuguese raisin bread". I didn't have any image of dark bread for Portugal, rather I thought their bread is fluffy white bread like we eat in Japan.
Once we went to the store to buy the bread again but it was sold out. We were quite sad that we couldn't buy it. Today we could. They were the last two 🙌
After I fell in love with this bread, now I think about practicing heavy rye bread this autumn and winter. The ingredients of the bread is shown at the store: whole rye flower, rye sourdough, water, raisin, salt and black cumin. Super pure.
I listed up bread that has similar ingredients in bread baking books I have.
I look forward to bake more in the upcoming seasons and activate Bread Bakers community again ... 😉
ひっさしぶりにお金を買っても買いたいパンに出会いました。何軒か好きなパン屋さんはあるのですが、日常のパンは、買いに行く手間などから結局自分で焼いています。
このパンとの出会いはなんとも偶然で、子どもが「これ食べたい」というのを一度「お夕飯近いからだめだよ」といったものの、子どもの「なんでも試してみるほうがいいよ」というおもしろい発言に負けて買ったのです。で、結果試してみてよかったです。赤ワインやチーズ、バターに合いそうな重重のいい感じにすっぱいパンでした。
レシートで名前を調べてみると「Portuguese raisin bread」と書いてありました。ポルトガルというと甘いフワフワのパンや白いパンのイメージで、ドイツアレンジなのかな？そんなことはどうでもいいくらいおいしい。。。久しぶりにまた買いに行きたいパンと出会って、子どもと買いに行ったら一度振られて、今日は最後のふたつが残っていて両方買ってきました。
こんなにおいしいものと出会うといつもの自分でも作りたい病が出てきます。。。幸いお店の値札に名前と材料のリストがあって、ライ麦全粒粉、ライ麦のサワードウ、レーズン、塩、黒クミンととてもシンプル！
ライ麦の真っ黒の重いパンをこの秋冬は練習しようと思います。あと、、、私の怠惰によって休眠中のこのパン作りコミュニティーを活性化させたいです。