I made more keto soda-bread "baguettes." They came out a bit suntanned, but they're not burned. Straight out of the oven, they smelled amazing, and I killed one of the small loaves (with herbed cream cheese—also keto) before I even thought to take cross-section shots, so all you've got are these loaf shots. Sorry. The first photo is of the tops of the loaves; the second photo is of their bottoms. Because this isn't yeast dough, I have to glop the soda-bread dough onto parchment paper, making the loaves dollop by dollop. No kneading, no first or second rises (I'd need yeast for that). I added Everything Bagel seasoning again; that seasoning does an awful lot to awesome-ize the bread. This time, I also added a mess of dried parsley, but in the end, the herb barely registers. It's still the best keto bread in my arsenal (alongside those fathead-dough keto bagels). Behold the loaf tops:
I'm not sure how you stop the cracking along the top when it comes to soda bread. The dough was smooth when it went in. |
And here are the loaf bottoms:
not... quite... burned |
Regarding the suntanning: I might want to cook these loaves for a shorter time or lower the temperature a bit. Frankly, I'm not sure what happened this time because I thought I was following the recipe in the same way as last time. No matter: the bread's not burned, and the loaf I ate was awesome. For keto bread, anyway. The remaining loaves probably won't survive Friday, so I might bake yet another batch to share with the crew on Monday (a fasting day for me, but I can still dole out food). For lunch today (since I'm writing this in the early hours of Friday morning), I'll be doing sliced-chicken sandwiches with cheese and another sandwich au salami with butter, plus a smoked-salmon-capers-cream-cheese thingie. A Paris Baguette salad or a Salady salad might make an appearance. If I remember, I'll try to provide the cross-section pics of the bread that I didn't include with this post.
Stay tuned for more culinary madness.
That's just about as dark as you'd want to get the crust, but it looks good.
ReplyDeleteAs for how you stop a soda bread from cracking... you don't. That's part of soda bread's charm.