Bacon Caraway Crusty Bread Recipes

Steps:

• In a small bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. In a large bowl, combine caraway seeds, salt, honey, yeast mixture, whole wheat flour and 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour; beat on medium speed until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a stiff dough (dough will be sticky)., Turn dough onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease the top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour., Grease a 15x10x1-in. baking pan; sprinkle with cornmeal. Punch down dough. Turn onto a lightly floured surface. Shape into a round loaf; place on prepared pan. Cover with greased plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place until almost doubled, about 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 425°., Using a sharp knife, cut a large "X" in top of loaf. Bake on a lower oven rack 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pan to a wire rack to cool.

Steps:

• 1. I started this stew in my Dutch oven, because it hold the heat in and hastens the cooking time. Using the tomato paste helps to thicken the broth in the stew, as well as the mashed potatoes. The amounts in this recipe is what I had, you can vary the amounts and variety of what you have on hand.
• 2. In a Dutch oven, over medium high heat, add the chopped celery and then add the carrots, and stir & continue to cook for about 10 minutes.
• 3. Next add the bay leaves and chopped onion, stir again and continue to cook.
• 4. Add the cubed sirloin Tip Roast, stir to mix, then cover and continue to cook over medium low heat, stirring occasionally to prevent sticking. Add the sliced mushrooms, and stir to blend together.
• 5. Add the remaining left over veggies, & tomato paste.
• 6. Then add the Beer, or may use a red wine if desired. Add the frozen peas. Continue to cook over low heat.
• 7. Now add the beef broth, Au Jus and stir to blend. Add the cold mashed potatoes, and stir to blend in with other ingredients. At this point I had to switch to a larger pot. I continued to let it cook over low heat , stirring occasionally to prevent it from sticking. I did not need to add any additional spices, but you can if desired.
• 8. The beef stew cooked for a total of about 2 hours. I made a BACON & CARAWAY CRUSTY BREAD TO SERVE WITH THIS STEW. I will post the recipe, if you would like to try it. It is a simple RUSTIC BREAD that DOES NOT USE YEAST, & ONLY TAKES 45 MINUTES TO BAKE. It was perfect with this stew.
• 9. This is the larger pot I had to switch too, after adding the cold mashed Potatoes.
• 10. A large bowl of this stew , on a Rainy day like today, with a warm piece of Crusty Bread and it hits the tummy just right.

Steps:

• In a heavy skillet cook bacon over moderate heat, stirring, until crisp and transfer with a slotted spatula to paper towels to drain. Transfer 1 teaspoon drippings to a small bowl and reserve. In drippings remaining in skillet cook cabbage with salt and pepper to taste, stirring occasionally, until golden and add water. Cook cabbage until crisp-tender and transfer to a serving dish.
• In skillet heat reserved drippings over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and sauté bread crumbs and caraway seeds with salt and pepper to taste, stirring, until bread crumbs are golden. Stir in bacon and sprinkle over cabbage.

Steps:

• In a large bowl or plastic container, mix yeast and salt into 3 cups lukewarm water (about 100 degrees). Stir in flour, mixing until there are no dry patches. Dough will be quite loose. Cover, but not with an airtight lid. Let dough rise at room temperature 2 hours (or up to 5 hours).
• Bake at this point or refrigerate, covered, for as long as two weeks. When ready to bake, sprinkle a little flour on dough and cut off a grapefruit-size piece with serrated knife. Turn dough in hands to lightly stretch surface, creating a rounded top and a lumpy bottom. Put dough on pizza peel sprinkled with cornmeal; let rest 40 minutes. Repeat with remaining dough or refrigerate it.
• Place broiler pan on bottom of oven. Place baking stone on middle rack and turn oven to 450 degrees; heat stone at that temperature for 20 minutes.
• Dust dough with flour, slash top with serrated or very sharp knife three times. Slide onto stone. Pour one cup hot water into broiler pan and shut oven quickly to trap steam. Bake until well browned, about 30 minutes. Cool completely.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup warm water. Add brown sugar, caraway, oil, salt and remaining water; mix well. Stir in rye flour and 1 cup all-purpose flour; beat until smooth. Add enough remaining all-purpose flour to form a soft dough. , Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour. , Punch dough down; divide in half. Shape each half into a ball; place in 2 greased 8-in. round baking pans or ovenproof skillets. Flatten balls to a 6-in. diameter. Cover and let rise until nearly doubled, about 30 minutes. Bake at 375° for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown.