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To: sandintoes who wrote (11956)12/3/2003 9:50:53 PM
From: William H Huebl  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 25073
 
Your question requires a LONG response:

STEP 1:

1 LB of Feta soaked in plain water 2 hours (changed water after 1 hour) then crumbled
1/2 cup flour
1/2 stick butter plus 1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 cup dried potato flakes
1/2 tsp paprika
1 clove garlic mashed
1 cup buttermilk + 2 cups milk
1/4 tsp thyme or parsley
4 eggs
1 tsp annatto seeds
1/4 tsp pepper, freshly ground
1/2 cup parmesan cheese grated coarsely

Make roux with flour and butter and oil, add garlic, paprika, thyme or parsley, potato flakes, annatto, pepper and slowly stir in buttermilk to thicken. Beat eggs in processor with plastic blades until mixed well, slowly add strained roux, then feta, parmesan, the milk and mix thoroughly in the food processor.

Pour into buttered molds, bake at 375 for 15 min then 300 for 15 min and then 250 for at least another hour, cool, unmold and wrap in plastic. Store in fridge or freezer. (I would make that 375 for an hour... )

(the resulting processed cheese is not all that great... so I decided to make some bread with 1/4th of it):

Step 2:

Dig a cup of sourdough starter out of the fridge (I keep both sourdough starter and regular bread dough starter in 2 gallon bags in my fridge... note: only about a quart of starter in each as it needs room to expand!). Toss it in the bread machine on the dough cycle and add 2 cups of flour and milk as needed. When the machine beeps to indicate you need to add the rest of the ingredients, I added a brick mold of the cheese I had made above. I ALSO added 1/2 a packet of that cheddar cheese stuff that comes in the mac and cheese box (somehow, we always seem to have extra packets of that stuff around). I let the machine run for a while longer and discovered the cheese had caused the bread to liquify so I added another 2 cups of flour, more or less. I restarted the bread machine from the top (still on the dough cycle) to make sure the dough was not too stiff. If it was too stiff, I would have added more milk. I let the machine go until it came to the rising part and I pulled out the dough, put it in a large teflon bread pan and put it in a warm oven. After rising 2-3 hours it was over the top of the pan... slashed it diagonally and turned the oven on 450 F. Put a pan of hot water on the lower shelf underneath the bread pan and put sprayed water on the dough and around the oven. 1/2 hour later, I sprayed some more. And 15 minutes after that I sprayed even more. When the top was dark brown, I pulled it out of the oven and took it out of the pan onto a cooling rack.

I cut some slices and buttered them... my wife said it is the best bread I have ever made... and that was just about 1/2 hour ago, so I am still beaming!

Told you it was a long response!