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November 27, 2009 By cheryl

Pane Siciliano: One Sexy Bread


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The same thing always happens when I’ve been on my weeks-long trips for book research in Singapore.

When I’m away, I find myself overcome with intense longing for something in my Brooklyn home. By the time I return, it’s all I can do to keep myself from running toward it (cue slow-motion romantic comedy music here) and getting it all hot and, well, hot.

My family home in Singapore doesn’t have an oven, you see — so when I’m away from my trusty hunk of stainless steel, a major itch to bake starts taking over.

When I returned this time, I was determined to jump back into the Bread Baker’s Apprentice challenge, where bakers around the world are making a bread each week from Peter Reinhart’s “The Bread Baker’s Apprentice.”

On the docket that week was pane Siciliano, a beautiful, golden Italian bread formed in a voluptuous “S” shape.

It seemed like just the thing to scratch my itch.

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Filed Under: Baking, Bread Tagged With: Baguette, Baking, Bread, Bread Baker's Apprentice, Cheese, Italian, Pane Siciliano, Panettone, Pate fermentee, Peter Reinhart, Prosciutto, Recipe, Sicily, Singapore

July 17, 2009 By cheryl

Cinnamon Raisin Bread: Devil in a Loaf Pan


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It was only as I was licking cinnamon sugar off a plate after rapidly devouring three slices of bread that I managed to put a finger on the word I was looking for to describe the cinnamon raisin walnut loaf I had just made.

Trouble.

And this is coming from someone who has generally preferred savory or plain loaves to sweet cinnamon-raisin breads.

Peter Reinhart’s recipe for cinnamon-raisin bread? It’s trouble.

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Filed Under: Baking, Books, Bread, Breakfast Tagged With: Baking, Bread, Bread Baker's Apprentice, Challenge, Cinnamon, Cinnamon Buns, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Domestic Putterings, French toast, Jon and Kate Plus Eight, KitchenAid, Peter Reinhart, Raisin, St. Tropez, Sugar, Us Weekly, Viagra, Walnut

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