If you know me at all, you know that I love Baking! I would spend all day in the kitchen if I didn't have a job to go to. Cleaning the kitchen on the other hand is not my favorite. Thank goodness for the dishwasher. As promised, I am going to try and write a weekly favorite product post for kitchen items. They may not be the exact items that I use, but they are super similar.
Today I spent most of the afternoon in the kitchen making a batch of Newfoundland Molasses Raisin Bread. The recipe I used can be found here: Molasses Raisin Bread. My Mom used to make a very similar Raisin Bread when we were all at home. Her recipe makes way more than one person can eat, so I went searching for a smaller recipe. This one turns out great every time. Makes about 4 loaves. The 12 cups of flour were a bit too much for my Kitchen Aid, so I decided to do it by hand!
When making Raisin Bread, here are some of the kitchen tools that I used that I love and a bit about why I love them. I love using glass bread pans. In my opinion the bread comes out easier from them, and they are easier to clean. I had to throw out my metal ones because they kept getting water under the little lip which made them rusty. I really like Anchor Hocking ones like these ones. Canadian Tire sometimes has a great price on them.
I also recently purchased a Dutch Oven which is really great for baking round loaves of bread. I purchased mine at Superstore over the Christmas season when they were on sale, but this one looks almost the same, and around the same price retail.
I love mixing my dough in a Thatsa Bowl from Tupperware. The 32 cup one works really well for a large batch of dough. Check out your local Tupperware dealer for one. You won't be disappointed.
When mixing dough by hand, I love using my Spurtle. It makes it so easy to mix the wet and dry together. You may be asking yourself, what is a Spurtle. A Spurtle is a Scottish Oatmeal Stirring Utensil. It is a wooden dowel which is shaped at each end. It makes stirring pretty much everything easier. I am in love with mine.
If you are not into mixing dough by hand, you could mix it up in a KitchenAid mixer. You would need to be careful the flour doesn't fly all over the place. Use the dough hook and keep an eye on the dough coming up the hook. You may have to manually push it down a couple of times (make sure you turn if off before you do this...I shouldn't have to tell folks not to stick their hands in the mixer...but you never know).
That is all she wrote for now! Thanks for reading and I hope you liked my recommendations!
Happy Baking Jen
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