Oat Bread

Oat Bread

• pointsevenout 9 years ago
  Recipe by Junioroat: Oat Bread/saved
  A nice oat flavor. Crust is a little dark but nicely chewy. Baked for 45 minutes with a little oven spring. Internal loaf temp came out to exactly 200F. Didn't have Coach's oats. Used Quaker minute oats.
  Wasn't understanding the instruction lines to make it into two loaves but giving the option to make it in a bread maker machine (which is only one loaf compatible unless there is some new gizmo in bread machines I don't know about, not that I have ever used one). So I made it into one loaf.
  Dough was a little sticky and used less than the called out liquid when mixing in a food processor. A handful of flour on the work surface remedied it.
  Took 2 hours rise time on all rises.
  I actually did 3 rises because I thought I might not have kneaded the dough enough for good gluten development for the first rise. So all that rise time probably helped boost the flavor some.
  There is some minor breaking (tearing) on the loaf crust along the loaf pan line. Maybe I should have put one or two slashes in the top of the loaf to help out the oven spring.

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• mommyluvs2cook 9 years ago said:
  That looks like perfect sandwich bread, you got a great color on the crust! Good call on the 3 rises, I wouldn't have known to do that.
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• frankieanne 9 years ago said:
  The inside of that loaf is beautiful, pso!
  What makes a chewy crust? Do you know? I personally like a soft crust.
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• pointsevenout 9 years ago said:
  Steam. Some people spritz the oven with water at bake time. Others use water in a dish under the loaf. Over-baking gets a chewy crust.
  In this loaf's case I want to say over-baking but the temp came out spot on.
  Maybe it's the oats.
  
  Here is my go-to source for all things baking: https://www.craftybaking.com/howto/bread-get-good-crust
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• frankieanne 9 years ago said:
  Oh. Steam. I know a guy who makes French bread professionally and he puts pans of water in his oven. That explains it.
  Thank you for the information and link, pso.
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