Monday, May 11, 2009

Pita- The Recipe

Heavens! I didn't even think of giving you all the recipe!

I originally found my recipe here at The Fresh Loaf.

And let me tell you, if you are interested in baking your own bread, of any kind, this is the place for you. Along with recipes and tutorials, they have a forum where people just like you have made the same mistakes that you have made and they discuss how you can fix it. It's kinda like having an experienced bread baking mentor right there in your computer.

I've done things a little differently though.

I use 1 1/2 cups AP Flour and 1 1/2 cups Whole Wheat Flour. I add my honey and warm water together, then bloom the yeast in the resulting mixture. And the biggest change, I cook mine in a very hot cast iron skillet instead of in the oven.

The rising time is much shorter than conventional bread (I can do a whole batch, start to finish, in under two hours) and I actually split my dough into 12 pieces, instead of 8, because we use them for sandwiches. In fact, this is the only bread that I bake some weeks, lol!

Enjoy!

3 comments:

Great-Granny Grandma said...

Thanks.

Thicket Dweller said...

I think I can do this!

Hey, wanna do a guest entry on my food blog? I haven't added an entry in a LONGGGGGGG time, and it could use a little "zip." :-0

JulieMom said...

Wonderful!! Now, what are you stuffing them with? :0) I am definitely going to try this, as I HATE the store pitas.

Do these have a nice pocket inside?

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