The bread Baking Babes are celebrating bees this month, using both honey and a flower infusion in this French classic.
Well, almost a French classic. I assume there are the usual BBB variations and additions and deletions.
Pain de Mie is a white sandwich bread with a tight crumb that is baked in a pullman pan.
Oh, you don’t know what that is?
I admit, I didn’t.
I knew that it made a square sandwhich loaf but I had no idea how it worked,
Tanna, of My Kitchen in Half Cups. our host kitchen for this month, has a photo of one on her site.
Not all of the Babes have one so there are work-arounds posted on some of their sites. I’m not telling you which ones because all of the stories and solutions are fun to read.
The most surprising part of this lovely bread is that it’s a white bread – or mostly white. Most of the Babes avoid using white flour if at all possible.
To get the whole story, the reicpes (there are 2 – one quick, one that needs a few days) and the details on being a Bread Baking Buddy visit My Kitchen in Half Cups.
The recipe was inspired by the head baker at King Arthur Flour…. what a job!
And that’s it for the Babes in the June. Stay Safe & Healthy Everyone!
And the Babes are:
The Bread Baking Babes
A Messy Kitchen – Kelly
Bake My Day – Karen
blog from OUR kitchen – Elizabeth
Bread Experience – Cathy
Feeding My Enthusiasms – Elle
Judy’s Gross Eats – Judy
Karen’s Kitchen Stories – Karen
My Diverse Kitchen — Aparna
My Kitchen In Half Cups – Tanna
Notitie Van Lien – Lien
And me…. Thyme for Cooking – Katie
As usual, I love seeing all the breads together! And I also really like that you don’t divulge who has a Pullman Pan, and who doesn’t. Although, it might be sort of obvious from the final breads….
I’m going to have to look on Amazon France for one…. And it’s not totally obvious 😉
Thanks for the roundup! All the breads look so lovely. However, I believe some of the links are pointing to the Cottage Loaves instead of the Bee Keeper’s Loaves.
For some reason Gutenberg does not like to change links. I double check, all is well, then I publish and half revert. I think they are all correct now. Thanks for letting me know
Ah Thank you again … altogether, yes you always make us look good. There does seem to bee 🐝 agreement here that this is a bread worthy of baking again!
They all look like perfect sandwich bread – just in time for tomato sandwiches.
Oh yeah I need you to add that one to my list. Thanks 😊 that one had slipped my mind.
The most white flour I’ve ever seen with all of us together! And they are all beautiful, such a great recipe.
A lot of white flour lol
I really enjoy seeing your round-ups. There’s something nice about all the breads in one place.
It always makes me hungry!
Such a beautiful loaf !
I’m not sure if that big pan would fit in my Euro oven lol