As good an idea as it seemed to me, I thought that I should probably run this past someone else to get their opinion before embarking on such a potentially disastrous project. My friend Peter, who has been around for some of my more monumental food failures (notably marmoffee - a repulsive mixture of Marmite and coffee) and has worked in a bakery, seemed like the obvious choice when seeking such a second opinion.
Much to my surprise, Peter actually have the whole thing a (tentative) thumbs up. Peter's thought was that tea might work nicely with a whole wheat or rye bread and that coffee might be better suited to something like a white bread.
With this provisional green-lighting of the idea I became somewhat fixated on this idea, particularly the idea of coffee bread.
This morning, after getting home from my final seminar of the semester, and partly as a means of celebrating this achievement I decided to leap forth into the void and give this coffee bread thing a shot.
Of course, I wasn't quite content to just try a plain white/coffee bread (as was my first thought). Instead I decided to mix things up a bit and add a few more flavours and textures to the mix. In the end I decided to go for a coffee walnut chocolate chip white bread.
At the moment the dough, which is an attractive tan, is rising. Soon after this post is up I will start to shape the loaves. Hopefully within an hour and a half or so I should be able to be able to report on the outcome (and if the smell of the dough means anything, I think it should at least be edible).
Hopefully I will be able to post a few more updates (also Peter's recommendation) as the project continues.
2 comments:
Dough looks a little dry to me - I like a high water to flour ratio for a lighter, airier (word?) loaf. Still looks like it has good potential (and I wouldn't add more liquid now, though you can dampen it with a clean wet cloth). The recipe reminds me of the Georgestown date-chocolate bread, which was delicious near the end of an insane Friday shift.
Also, the marmoffee was an unqualified success in that we discovered that it wasn't edible/ marketable, and that energy could be spent elsewhere. Had to be tried though, right?
The dough is actually pretty moist, I just didn't want to deal with the flour on top as the chocolate was starting to melt (maybe I added it to soon?). Hopefully it will taste good.
Marmoffee needed to be tried once, though maybe not. What if it had been great?
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