Fun Way to Make Bread, Good Gift for A Kid!

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

I remembered yesterday that we had a Lekue Silicone Bread Bowl and got it out today to make a loaf of bread. You mix up everything in this silicone bowl, let it rise, and bake it in the bowl in a 400 degree oven!

I made a wonderful loaf of white bread that is like a chewey Italian loaf with a crisp crust. Perfect for garlic bread or small sandwiches. The bread is nice and chewey with a great texture. You can make other kinds of bread also.

The bowls are about $26 from major retailers. They are a sort of floppy bowl that has a latch slit on top and makes it a football shape for the bread to rise and bake. Hard to describe but a lot of fun to use! It would be lots of fun for a kid to help or use too, and to learn something in the process.

gulf coast girl · ‎03-10-2010

I bought one of those things at a yard sale and had no idea what to do with it other than steam vegtables. Could you share your bread recipe with me, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thank you

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@gulf coast girl wrote:
I bought one of those things at a yard sale and had no idea what to do with it other than steam vegtables. Could you share your bread recipe with me, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Thank you

@gulf coast girl You and I are in the same boat! I just watched a few online demos and baked it. I'll try to go back and write down what they did and what I followed loosely. . . Back later!

cindyNC · ‎08-01-2019

That sounds interesting ! Silicone products are so versitile. I finally figured out that I could use my silicone tube pan for baking stuffed peppers.....works like a dream holding them upright.

A few weeks ago I watched a youtuber called Italian Grannie and she took her bowl of dough, covered it with plastic, put it on her sofa and covered it with blankets to let it rise.

When I was first married and made my first bread, we kept our house so cold in the wintertime, I would tuck the covered dough into the waterbed to rise. Same thing with the amaryllis plants during the day. LOL

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@gulf coast girl OK. Here is what I know! I watched a good video on YouTube on Lekue World there the video was Easy Homemade Bread - Bread Maker / ecipes with Lekue World.

She used

400 g/ 3 cups bread flour in the bowl

Mixed it well with 1 tsp salt

Then took 1 cup water and mixed in

15 g. or 0.5 oz yeast (I used instant yeast and just dumped it in did not mix with water)*see note

She mixed this well (use hand or spatula) and added

1 tsp. Olive oil (I'm sure I used at least 2)

Mixed well with her hand and shaped into a loaf.

Let this loaf rest an hour or so until doubled, in the bowl with the top snapped shut and the bowl covered with a towel

Bake in the bowl locked in the football shape 40 minutes in a 400 degree oven; or until bread is about 200 degrees.

*I am not sure how much yeast I added because I tried weighing it and was suspicious of the amounts.

I know 1 packet (1/4 oz or .25 oz) = approx 2-1/4 teaspoons. So this would be about 2 packets of yeast? Or what I used was probably about a Tablespoon maybe less. . . ??????

I added about a tablespoon of powdered milk and I also added more flour while mixing/kneading a little and shaping to get the bread to hold together a little better.

It was really risen and sort of bubbly and I wasn't sure how it would come out when it went in the oven, but it was great! Good luck to you!!!!

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@cindyNC wrote:
That sounds interesting ! Silicone products are so versitile. I finally figured out that I could use my silicone tube pan for baking stuffed peppers.....works like a dream holding them upright.

A few weeks ago I watched a youtuber called Italian Grannie and she took her bowl of dough, covered it with plastic, put it on her sofa and covered it with blankets to let it rise.

When I was first married and made my first bread, we kept our house so cold in the wintertime, I would tuck the covered dough into the waterbed to rise. Same thing with the amaryllis plants during the day. LOL

@cindyNC Loved your stories!!! It used to be the joke at our house that at Thanksgiving, if the turkey isn't thawed the night before, somebody's going to have to sleep cuddled up to it! LOL!!!!

Thanks for the great idea about the stuffed peppers! They are one of my favorite things on earth! Cooked until the pepper skins are wrinkly! I used to line one of those glass Pyrex casserole bowls with halved peppers if the shapes were too weird to stuff, and put another layer of pepper halves on top! I've made 20 at a time in the summer and froze them wrapped in ones and twos!

gulf coast girl · ‎03-10-2010

Cool, thank you, I'm gonna use it tomorrow!

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@gulf coast girl wrote:
Cool, thank you, I'm gonna use it tomorrow!

@gulf coast girl I'll be cheering for you!

coffee drinker · ‎03-21-2010

@Sooner Didn't QVC sell these at one time? I checked them on AMZ shortly after your post Saturday. I believe at that time they were $26+, now they're $28+. Maybe they got caught in the supply chain delay.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@coffee drinker wrote:
@Sooner Didn't QVC sell these at one time? I checked them on AMZ shortly after your post Saturday. I believe at that time they were $26+, now they're $28+. Maybe they got caught in the supply chain delay.

@coffee drinker I never knew of QVC selling them. I saw them on Amazon and bought mine there in 2019.