Thought y’all might be interested in this. I do have a question related to the video though. Why does their recipe use 14g of yeast? Is it to cut rise times? Or necessary when working with the non-gluten flour? Or just standard for that style of loaf. I’m fairly new to bread baking so forgive my ignorance if that is the standard.
Also side note, I love that they’re using all period correct tools but then seeing the bread knife at the end gave me a chuckle.
by SplatteredEggs
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I had much higher hopes for this bread
This looks terrible. Not sure if it’s the gluten free flour, the cook time, the improper shaping, the volumetric measurements, or the period tools. But, I feel like even back in the day, the cook at the fort would have produced something better than this flat, pale white, brick of cooked dough. Even the crumb inside is just completely squished and does not look appetizing. For that much yeast, it got no rise. I’m not a bread expert by any metric, but I’ve baked a few successful loaves. Can anyone with more experience tell me if it’s supposed to have come out like that. And if not, what did they do wrong? Was I close?
they look like giant peanut butter cookies. great. now i want a cookie.
I was excited to see artisanal wood fired bread. Now I’m sad.
You have a giant wood fired oven and this is what you wind up with? What a waste!
My hunch is they needed a bread which would be somewhat edible made by summer teenager staff who turn over every 3 weeks. It’s like a home ec class in high school
“2 cups of warm water”. Proceeds to put 2.5 in..
That poor oven. What a waste.
I think this is a perfect example of “it’s the journey, not the destination.” The process was fun but the bread was sad. 🙁
I don’t think I’ve seen worse looking bread on this subreddit than this
Bro this looks like dogshit
Terrible recipe
Cool oven, but terrible looking bread. Maybe it was the flour, but it looks more to me like the lack of any real control on that recipe.
I went here as a kid for a field trip. That was almost 20 years ago. They did the same thing there. I remember not enjoying the bread
I wonder if they’re poorly adapting an older recipe. An older recipe would use brewers yeast.
Isnt that really a LOT of yeast for that amount of flour?
I’m baffled by this. What was the thought process? Who chose this recipe, and why? What happens to the disgusting bread after it’s baked? CA State Parks usually do really great interpretive programs.
My kids did an overnight field trip there in 3rd grade. For two days and a night they could only be using materials and INGREDIENTS available at the time for all their activities. Plus it is a working museum so we had to be in period clothing- no phones out ever. I was nominated Kitchen General and ended up using this oven and cooked dinner for 150 people on open flames. We did bread, chili, grilled Tri Tip, grilled veges and apple crisp dessert. Was fun but so much work. Long story longer, the bread’s look makes sense. Amazing memory though.
I’m going to score the bread to control the rise… did it rise?
Looks like it was baked with warm regards not a wood fired oven
Omg it looks awful 😅
That’s a lot of yeast!!
Edit: They forgot to add the chocolate chips. The bread looks like cookies.
Sacramento local here and I withheld bullying this acct on IG when it was posted
Sutters Fort atleast from what I can see was largely operational between 1840 an abandoned in 1850s during the California gold rush. Commercial yeast only became available in America around 1868. So this recipe isn’t quite authentic to the time.
> add 2 cups of warm water
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Proceeds to add almost 3 cups.
I don’t want to be mean to this child. But I don’t have many nice things to say about this bread. So I will excuse myself from this comment section.
Xxxl cookies
I remember doing a field trip here and doing this. We also churned butter, washed laundry on a laundry board, made quilt patterns. Very memorable trip
Sutter’s Fort (and Sutter’s Landing) is in Sacramento and was the final destination for many a settler traversing the country, including the ill-fated Donner Party. All schoolkids have visited this place at one time or another.
That said, it baffles me why they would be so historically accurate and then go and ruin the recipe with gluten-free flour? WTF. 😅