Application Guide

LOU’S DAILY BREAD
This is my food writer friend Lou Pappas’s house bread. She is an avid baker, so it
must be good since she makes it on a regular basis. She uses the whey drained off
homemade yogurt cheese for the liquid; I have substituted nonfat milk, which is known
as fat-free milk these days. Take care to remove only the zest—the colored part of the
skin—from the orange. This is where the flavorful oil is; the white pith is quite bitter. I
suggest a fine or medium grind of stone-ground whole wheat flour for this bread.
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-POUND LOAF
Zest of 2 oranges, cut into very thin strips
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4
cups fat-free milk
2 tablespoons olive or walnut oil
2 tablespoons honey
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cups whole wheat flour
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cups bread flour
1 tablespoon gluten
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teaspoons salt
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teaspoons SAF yeast or 2
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teaspoons bread ma-
chine yeast
2-POUND LOAF
Zest of 2 oranges, cut into very thin strips
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