frudahls: Bake Your Own Bread (BYOB) July 2011 Roundup

I hope everyone has been enjoying their summer so far. I’ve been taking a break from baking for a few days to enjoy the Fourth of July Holiday weekend with my family. I figured you wouldn’t mind because I have a lovely roundup of breads from the BYOB Bakers to share with you. Please enjoy the July BYOB roundup of breads and other baked goods.

Marion in the United Kingdom had fun putting different ingredients into the breads she made this month - seeds and herbs, yoghurt, porridge oats, roasted butternut squash. She looks forward to the early morning sessions and the rhythm of the kneading.

Wholemeal with pumpkin and caraway seeds

Sultana and caraway seed scones

Oat and wholemeal with butternut squash and yoghurt

An early attempt at sourdough white

Heather of GirliChef made an assortment of delicious breads this month. Those cheddar-stuffed crusty sourdough loaves look scrumptious.

Cheddar-Stuffed Crusty Sourdough Loaves

Spiced Apple Crumb Muffins (vegan)

Sourdough Sandwich Loaf

English Muffins

Jacqueline of Designing My Day has been busy organizing events for the Chicago Amateur Bread Bakers. She provides details of their latest event and the upcoming event if anyone lives in the area and is interested in participating.

Recap of their latest event http://bit.ly/loSEuY

Flyer for their next event, the "Homemade Bread Showcase:" http://bit.ly/j0pHZA. The event is free, open to the public, and all-ages.

Frieda of Frieda Loves Bread turned her French Bread recipe into hot dog/deli buns. She said they were yummy with the bratwurst that they cooked up.

French Bread Deli Buns

Winnie of Something Sweet - Winnie's blog decided to join us this month. Her specialty is challah breads; however, she does a mighty fine job with other baked goods. Take a look at the beautiful breads and other baked goods she features on her blog. It’s in Hebrew so be sure to use the translator in the left column.

Enriched Challah - made of mixed flours & grains

Soft Challah with whole and rye wheat

Middle-class Brioche

Rich egg-Challah

Sweet potatoes, onions and cheese pie

2-Layer Chocolate cake & whipping cream

Halva-Caramel Nut bars

Colored layer cake

CookieNashe (Giant cookies filled with chocolate ganashe)

Cheese and Poppy sticks

Cheery-dotted CheeseCake

White chocolate & dried strawberry cookies

No-pastry Pear & Almond tart

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chips Coffee Cake

Priya of http://eq-myblog.blogspot.com calls herself a reluctant bread baker. She is slowly enjoying the many joys of a freshly minted home loaf. We’re so glad she decided to break out of the mold and try bread baking.

Olives & Rosemary Focaccia

Eggless Golden Cake with creamy chocolate icing

Connie of mydiscoveryofbread made a beautiful assortment of breads last month and created a collage to showcase them. She also had fun hosting Bread Baking Day 41. The links to her posts are below the collage.

Kathy in Derwood, Maryland was busy with baseball and canning but she still found time to do some baking.

Ethereal Air Bread - 8 loaves
Rye Bread - 2 loaves
Best Ever Oatmeal Bread - 1 loaf
Grill Bread
Blueberry Muffins

Jill of BakingBread-101.com was busy experimenting this month. She describes the process below:

There's a bit of bubbly going (making a biga)

and then there's the sourdough bread.

There's a pic of the whole pie, which is a cranberry apple

and a picture of a slice of it. The apples were picked off the neighbor's tree and we don't know what kind they are. The apples are crisp but tart -- almost Granny Smith, but not quite.

I forgot to take a picture of the banana bread and the challah.

Champa of Versatile Kitchen has some very yummy “bakes” this month as she calls them.

Baby Shower Cake

Chocolate Strawberry Muffins

Peanutbutter bars with toffee bits

Eggless Coconut bundt cake

Cream Cheese Brioche

Easiest Vanilla Cake

Weight Watcher's Cheese filled muffins

Strawberry Summer Cake

Pam of Pam’s Bread makes delicious and wholesome breads. Take a look at her creations from June.

Blueberry-Nut Muffins with Spelt & Whole Wheat Flours

100% Spelt Blueberry-Nut Muffins

Oatmeal Raisin Quick Bread

Waffles with Whole Wheat & Soy Flours

Lemon-Cinnamon Buns with Whole Grains

In between work and then more work (we all know what that is like), Di of diskitchennotebook found time to make a thing or two. Looks good to me.

Pain Rustique

Chocolate Biscotti

Ice Cream Sandwiches

Cindy in Cedar Park, Texas baked some of her family’s favorite breads this month. She said the freezer was getting pretty empty.

Foccacia bread
Plain bagels
Sweet Hawaiian bread
Pizza dough
Kummelweck rolls
Amish coffeecake
Garlic Naan
Oatmeal Raisin Scones

Pretzels

Sourdough - finally decided to try to make a traditional sourdough. I found a starter recipe that uses whole wheat flour and pineapple juice. After 10 days of stirring, adding more flour and juice, then flour and water, I made the dough and letting it rise for an hour and a half. I covered the bowl of risen dough with plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator overnight. The next day I took it out, divided it and shaped it into 2 loaves and let it rise for another hour, then baked it. The crust was nice and crunchy, and the crumb was fairly open but it tasted a little bit too sour. Next time we'll just skip the overnight rise and it will be perfect.

Margie of Tea and Scones made some classic homemade breads this month. She was so excited to be able to submit some breads this month. We excited too!

Outback Bushman Bread

BBA Sourdough Bread

Classic White Bread

Swathi of Zesty South Indian Kitchen sent these Khara buns for the round up. Yum!

Khara buns/ Savory spiced buns

Soep kipje’s July BYOB photo collage of the breads she made in June. Beautiful as always.

Calamity Jane of Apron Stringz has been baking bread for 20 years and to celebrate she created a two-part series on baking whole-wheat bread. She was kind enough to share it with us.