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Hello, my lovely Insiders!
This issue we’re baking a fruit loaf. It’s come up as a request several times on the Insiders survey I conduct with new members, so I’m sharing my current favorite fruit and nut bread recipe. This is one I bake frequently, and which my 4 year old and I are eating for breakfast most mornings right now. Like all my favorite recipes, it’s adaptable and ‘tweakable’, ready for you to put your own stamp on it.
If you’re new to bread baking, I very much want you to go and read the Insiders article on steam oven bread basics before you head to today’s recipe. That piece contains all my best advice for proving and baking yeast doughs in your steam oven. Once you’re comfortable with baking bread, you can control when and how long to rise it for, so your loaves always come out of the oven exactly as you’d imagined, and you’re baking when you want to instead of whenever the dough is ready.
There’s a bit of a breakfast-y theme going on with this journal’s Season Flip below, and a call-out in the AMA section to start sending in your Thanksgiving and Christmas questions (I know, I know, 90% of you haven’t even thought about end of year yet, so I’m sorry to spring it on you!).
Happy steam oven cooking and baking, see you next issue.
Emily x
New to Cook: Steam Oven Fruit and Nut Bread
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The Season Flip
I definitely think of fruit loaf as a breakfast food despite the fact it’s just as good for dessert or a snack. Here are a couple of other breakfast-or-dessert ideas. Particularly for you Northern hemisphere dwellers; if you’re suffering through a heatwave and can’t bear the thought of baking bread, hopefully the egg suggestions below will tide you over until it’s cool enough for fruit loaf.
Southern Hemisphere
Sausages or Oatmeal
I wrote this sausage bake recipe with dinner in mind, but can confirm from firsthand experience that it is an excellent weekend breakfast or brunch! For a quicker weekday option in the cool weather, I still love steel cut oatmeal (pinhead oatmeal) above all other oatmeals. Make a big batch at the start of the week and steam individual serves for 10 minutes to warm it through each morning.
Northern Hemisphere
All the eggs
Turkish eggs are brilliant, and light enough for hot weather. You can do poached eggs, but I’d cook sous vide eggs ahead of time (method at the bottom of that linked article). Keep them in the fridge and warm in hot water (shell and all, ready to crack open once warmed) when you want to serve up. For other egg ideas, dare I suggest last issue’s omelette recipe? I know you’ll still have to turn on the oven, but the temperatures are low and, in the case of the omelette, the cooking time is short.
Ask Me Anything (AMA)
This is your opportunity to ask me anything you like related to combi steam cooking!
I really encourage you to submit questions, and will do my best to answer as many as possible. I may not be able to get to every single question, but I carefully curate ones which are relevant and represent a variety of topics. We all learn from each other, and I often learn new things based on questions from all of you!
If you have an AMA question, please email it to [email protected]. Include the phrase INSIDERS AMA in the subject line so I can collate and read all your submissions.
If you’re an extreme forward planner and already thinking about Thanksgiving or Christmas foods, definitely send through your questions on those topics, so I can supply you with all the recipes and info you need come November!