BreadBakingDay #10 – Breakfast Breads!
Posted by Melissa on May 6th, 2008. Filed under: Bread Baking Day.There is certainly no better way to break the fast than to start the day off with some fabulous fresh baked bread! Lucky for us, this bread takes on so many forms at breakfast time! Bagels, English muffins, cinnamon rolls, sticky buns, french toast, doughnuts, waffles, pancakes, sweet breads, and plain ol’ toast; I’m out of breath already, and there’s so many more…
It is my pleasure to present to you the theme of this month’s BreadBakingDay – Breakfast Breads! Because the options are truly endless, I’m going to only put one restriction on this – it must have a leavening agent of some kind. Quick breads are just as fabulous as yeasted breads for this
Chris Kimball discussed the history of American breakfast as:
Pioneer Breakfast:
These breakfasts were simple and, like most early American cuisine, relied heavily on cornmeal, an ingredient that was used by Native Americans and influenced the cuisine of early settlers. A simple hot water cornbread was used to create a variety of different breads, including corn pone (pan-fried in oil), Johnnycakes (usually flattened and griddle-fried) and Ashcakes (wrapped in cabbage leaves and cooked in the ashes of a campfire). Hoecakes were small pancakes cooked on the flat side of a garden hoe and cooked over a campfire. Corn Dodgers were simple, oval-shaped cornmeal breads made from cornmeal, water, buttermilk, and baking powder.
Victorian Breakfast:
The Victorian breakfast reflected the birth of the middle class, when many wealthier women had leisure time and disposable income was growing. Unlike the relatively poor settlers in our nation’s past, Victorians had the money to improve the quality and range of the American breakfast table. Menus could be extensive and include a wide array of foods including hot cereal, eggs, fish, meat, breads, and fruit. A formal Victorian breakfast would be equivalent of brunch today, with items such as orange juice, Poached Eggs with Asparagus Tips, toast, lamb chops, green peas, English muffins, and crackers with Brie or Roquefort to finish with coffee.
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So what is your country’s/family’s traditional breakfast bread? Share it with us!
To enter in this month’s BBD, bake some fabulous bread, then:
1. Post your bread on your blog, with a link in the post to this page
2. Email me at: melissa@bakingasweetlife.com and include the following (By June 1st!!!):
- Your name
- Your blogs name (with URL)
- The name of your bread and its permalink in your blog
- Your location
- A picture of your creation! (preferably 150 pixels wide)
- please note – I unfortunately only speak and read English -please submit your emails as such!
I will post the round-up by June 5th, so please check back then!
To see April’s round-up of Breads with Oats, check Paulchen’s foodblog!
And lastly, lets not forget to thank Zorra, for being the founder of our fun and creative monthly blog event!
May 6th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Oh how lovely! I can’t wait to start thinking this one over. Many thanks for hosting.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Oh what fun! This will help me spread my wings a little and try something new. Thanks for hosting and proposing such a great theme!
May 7th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Lots of great possibilities for this one! Would yeasted-dough pastries (e.g., Danish, croissants, etc.) be acceptable?
May 7th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
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May 7th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Oh I like your theme!
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breakfast breads … I’ll have to think about this one
thanks for hosting this month!
May 7th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Susan – of course yeasted-dough pastries will be accepted!!! I have been considering attempting one myself – still a wee intimidated! I can’t wait to see what YOU come up with!
May 9th, 2008 at 4:30 am
I love this theme! Great choice, Melissa.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
I love baking bread! I look forward to this challenge. Breakfast bread will be a switch for me. Thanks!
May 9th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Oops, I fudged the link. Here it is again. Still getting my bearings! N.
May 10th, 2008 at 6:23 am
Ooh this looks like a good start for my beginning a new challenge. Thank you.
May 11th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
I am super excited and may already have something ready to go for this month! Yeah. Oh! And about your new “home” – unrecognizable! Gorgeous! Love what you’ve done with the place!
May 12th, 2008 at 6:06 am
Done, thanks for the theme, I just emailed you the entry details. Have fun with the roundup
May 14th, 2008 at 8:21 am
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May 15th, 2008 at 11:12 am
I’ve just emailed you with the entry details, can’t wait to see the roundup
May 15th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
I’ve been wanting to join BBD ever since I heard about it but it took me a while to set up my blog. I’m looking forward to the roundup.
May 16th, 2008 at 11:32 am
This home looks good to me. Any home of yours is sweet if it is going to be as succulent as this! We don’t have a traditional bread as I have started baking breads recently. The bread is to be made using yeast or soda or baking powder, right?
May 18th, 2008 at 12:47 am
[...] 10th edition of Bread Baking Day is hosted by Baking a Sweet Life, and the theme is breakfast breads. The only restriction was that the bread be leavened. The bread [...]
May 18th, 2008 at 3:07 am
[...] We eat crusty hearth breads around the clock, including for breakfast. But for some reason, the BreadBakingDay #10 theme of Breakfast Breads, hosted this month by talented baker Melissa (Baking a Sweet Life), put [...]
May 18th, 2008 at 7:12 am
I’ve just finished baking for this awesome event and wrote you an email with the results. Like George I can’t wait to see the round-up…
May 19th, 2008 at 3:56 am
[...] I read the next theme of bbd at Baking a Sweet life I was excited ’cause a poper breakfast without a tasty bread would be simply not imaginable [...]
May 25th, 2008 at 1:04 am
[...] have if I didn’t let my friend take the rest of it home with her), this is my submission for BreadBakingDay#10: Breakfast Breads hosted by the talented Melissa of Baking a Sweet Life. Be sure to check out her blog for a round-up [...]
May 25th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Hi, just posted my entry, and waiting for the round up!
http://tumyumtreats.blogspot.com/2008/05/eggs-beans-and-crumpets.html
May 27th, 2008 at 5:42 am
Posted my entry and have sent you a mail. Thanks.
May 27th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
[...] is time once again for Bread Baking Day! This month’s theme, breakfast breads, was chosen by the lovely Melissa at Baking A Sweet Life [...]
May 27th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
[...] von hier und da ab Schritt 4 nicht mehr nachvollziehbar. Gewurstel. Mein Beitrag zum Breadbakingday #10 “Breakfast breads”, betreut durch Melissa von Baking a Sweet [...]
May 28th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Just sent a mail with my entry Melissa!:)
http://foodieshope.blogspot.com/2008/05/cinnaroll-earskaffekrans-for-breakfast.html
May 29th, 2008 at 1:43 am
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May 30th, 2008 at 10:46 am
hi melissa,
I just sent u my entry.. i hope u got it..
do let me know if u havent
thanks!!!
May 30th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
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May 30th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
[...] It’s the (sweet) result of several months of experimentation with enriched sourdough breads, many of which proved to be somewhat less than spectacular (or edible in some cases!) Finally, I have a recipe here for brioche using sourdough starter as the only leavening agent (I’ll post more about ‘bubbles’ later). Since traditionally brioche is a breakfast bread, I thought it would be nice to submit it for Bread Baking Day #10 [...]
May 31st, 2008 at 11:32 am
Ooh! Soo looking forward to breakfast bread (breadfast?) round-up. I’ll bet there are tons of great recipes to be inspired by. Soo impatient…
May 31st, 2008 at 10:54 pm
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June 1st, 2008 at 12:17 pm
[...] Bread Baking Day and I was thrilled to hold that title. This is the 10th edition, and the theme is Breakfast Breads! I had been long wanting to make a batch of cinnamon rolls, and when one of docs I work with made [...]
June 4th, 2008 at 11:35 am
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June 4th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
[...] pleasure to present to you the fine collection of Breakfast Breads baked up for this month’s BBD challenge. We had 54 submissions from 16 different countries – quite a variety of breakfast [...]
January 7th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
[...] Potato Cinnamon Rolls are being served up for Bread Baking Day – Breakfast Breads. Bread Baking Day was started by Zorra and this month is being hosted by Melissa at Baking a Sweet [...]