Casatiello Bread – The Bread Baker’s Apprentice
I’ve missed several weeks, being away, but I’m back on the challenge wagon now – and what a bread to start back with, but a Casatiello bread! It’s a rich, buttery, brioche-like dough, with salami and cheese sprinkled throughout…kind of like a pizza in a loaf of bread.
It was a one-day process, which was nice – a simple soaker of yeast, flour, and milk. The dough needed to sit for a few minutes, and since I was multi-tasking with making my Curry Lime Chicken Salad, I think I might have let it sit a bit too long – when I went to mix in the 3/4 cup of butter (yeah, not a light recipe) the dough felt extremely stringy. Suppressing my panic, I moved ahead, and in the end it all turned out well. Sometimes, not having a stand mixer to beat doughs into submission can be quite frustrating.
But it’s been a great bread for every meal this week – as toast with eggs, or a sandwich bread, or just for snacking.
Next week, on to challah!
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Your loaves rose beautifully. Would have loved to see inside too. Sometimes I wish I didn’t have a kitchen aid mixer so that I would be forced to knead by hand. I think you will learn way more by hand kneading. You will definately have a better feel as to when dough is “right” than those of us who rely on machines.
Your Casatiello looks great. Wonderful.
Susie
This looks great! I used to buy a sausage bread in a local bakery so I’m really looking forward to making this.
Your Casatiello looks great – beautiful rise. It does make a great sandwich bread, doesn’t it? Much sturdier than its cousin Brioche.
I’ve never heard of casatiello bread but it does look amazing. Those are beautiful loaves… I love how tall they are! This sounds like it would maybe make a good French toast bread?
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