Do you ever have the urge to make bread but realize that you don't have a bread pan available, or your recipe makes more loaves then you have pans?
Never fear the casserole dish is here!
Here is a fun tip for those of you without a bread pan or with not enough bread pans.
In writing this post I was trying to decide where to begin. Should I tell an extensive back story like some crazed evil scientist?
Should I ramble on and on about my all encompassing love affair with bread and anything gluten? Perhaps I'll reveal my darkest fear that my husband and children will be diagnosed with celiac disease and I will have to say good bye to my beloved flour forever!
I'll relate the tragedy of my broken bread pan leaving me with only one pan and a recipe that makes 5 loaves. Maybe after typing paragraph on paragraph I will stumble upon the stroke of genius I had for the make shift bread pan.
Eventually you become so bored you skip to the very end to get to the soul purpose of this blog post where I explain how to turn your casserole dish into a bread pan ... I thought not.
So here is what you need:
9x13 or 8x8 casserole dish
tin foil
non-stick spray
Directions :
Make your bread and while it's rising the first time cut 4 or 3 pieces of tin foil depending on your size of pan (9x13= 4; 8x8= 3)
These pieces of tin foil should be the width of your pan and be fairly tall so it holds the bread in as it rises.
In this first picture (which was taken on my beautiful stove in my old house) I didn't put tin foil on the sides so the bread spilled over the edges.
I did not like that so the next time I made bread I used tin foil on the outside edges as well as in the middle. This picture was taken at my new house on my not so beautiful stove, and my loaves got a little over cooked on top unfortunately
But as you can see both times I got perfectly shaped loaves by just using a casserole dish and tin foil!
I hope you try this if you're in need of more bread pans cause it really does work. Also here is a link to the bread recipe I found that I now love! It says to make two loaves but I always get 3 huge loaves, (as shown in the last picture) or 4 smaller ones (as shown in the middle picture).
Hope you enjoyed my post and happy baking!!
