Pressure Cooker Bread
This works well on boats of all sizes that don’t have an oven.
2 t sugar
1-1/2 t salt
1 T yeast
1-1/2 C water
2 C white flour
2 C whole wheat flour
2 T oil
Dissolve sugar, salt, and yeast in water. Let stand 5 min. Blend in flour and knead well. Allow to rise until volume doubles. Punch down and knead again. Grease dutch oven or pressure cooker and dust with flour. Cover and then cook for 45 minutes over very, very low flame. Do not open and look! To brown the top, turn over and cook for 10 minutes.
When we tried this using high-gluten white bread flour, instead of whole wheat, it only needed 35-40 minutes of cooking. But be warned — it’s hard to get the flame low enough, even with a flame tamer, so the bottom may be a little overdone.
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March 3rd, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Lodge (the cast iron folks) imports a cast iron flame tamer from Italy. Top surface is baked enamel with several raised ridges. Has a slot on one side for a lifter which is supplied. Very good lifetime investment, about $15. Stove heats the cast iron and the heat is radiated to the pot which is slightly elevated from the enameled surface.
June 27th, 2010 at 8:51 am
you can just use a cast iron skillet/frying pan under the pressure cooker instead of a flame tamer works for me