SC - Bread Machine Trenchers, was Plastic Ware

[Philip & Susan Troy]

> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 18:09:53 EDT
> From: Bronwynmgn at aol.com
> Subject: Re: SC - Plastic Ware
> 
> What I was planning on doing was using the bread machine to make a 100% whole 
> wheat loaf (I haven't yet found a 100% whole wheat bread that I felt was 
> really edible...), cut that to the appropriate size and shape, and let those 
> dry for trenchers. 
> My bread machine does 1.5-2 lb normal shaped loaves (the pan is a loaf pan 
> with knead bars, basically), so I should be able to get a fair number of 
> trencher slices from one loaf.

You might see if you have access to an Indian grocery: chapatti flour is
a very fine whole wheat flour ground from a rather durum-ish hard wheat.
It tastes like whole wheat but produces a much lighter leavened bread
than stone-ground whole-wheat flour, both because it is finer and
therefore the bran doesn't cut the gluten strands in the same way, and
also because it has more of the proteins that combine to form gluten.

Whether these characteristics are necessarily desirable for
trencher-making I don't know, but I've been very happy with all my
experiments with chapatti flour.

Adamantius 
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com