Breadmaking on a small boat made easy!

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Staying with a French girl found me going off to the breadshop except at the weekend when she beaks bread, cake and biscuits! And very good they are!

Now for some reason its not as walm on board as it was just a few weeks ago? So i have to heat. I thought i would try bakeing, To my total amazement its a total success!!

I found a cooking pot 30cmsX20cmsX12cms high i put a wire support used to grill fish on the bottem then a sheet of baking paper. The lid i put 2 long spikes used for barbarqs the keep the lid open just 2mm. inside i hung an oven thermometer (cost 2 euros) reads up to 220 degrees.c

First time i used flour (25cents/kilo) yeast oil and water mixed everything together left it to rise for an hour then bashed it about a bit made it into a bread shape for the pot put it on the paper in the dish to rise again, while the pot heated to 200degrees.c then lifted it into the pot on the paper, and bake for 20mins result,bread! which needed salt,umm

Now ive discoverd pre mixed bread mix (pain blanc) just add water! It has sel acidiant, yeast (carbonate de calcium hydrogéne E170!), fat, gluten de flour émusifiant(E472e) acide ascorbique!!! Cost 69cent/kilo,

With that mix im now a floating bakery!! Bread turns out just like the shop stuff!! and walms the boat at the same time! Alternatively i do do it with just flour water and dried yeast which i can add duck fat or olive oil plus knowing just how much salt is in the bread!

By useing the ready made stuff success is garenteed as unlike natural yeast the bakers stuff works at any tempreture and rives becouse of the heat so the oven could be say 300 degrees.c (not my pot though!!) to bake faster! for reall yeast that would be to hot and kill it before the rise (im told)

Anyway for the boat the pot is a real succsse the tempreture gets to 200 degres.c and even loosing the heat putting the bread in dosent stop it working once it reaches 200 i turn the gas down and with a tourch can read the dial through the gap under the lid,

Ive been told i shoud have a biscuit mix ready then put the biscuits on another paper and put then in the hot pot when i take the bread out and turn the gas off! First attempt worked well! Not crisp though,

Good bread making its really easy!!!!
 
One recipe from my experience:
1/2 kg flour
1 pack dry yeast
2/3 water + 1/3 sea water (mediterranian not english)
Mix - leave 1 hour on sun (covered with rag) than mix again and leave one more hour on sun , add few olives and bake ! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Short bread?well i havent got that far yet!!
I wouldent use the med sea water!!!!!!!

A German boat attived they had a full oven! Thought my white bread unheathy!!Being a novelty i cooked another bread,this time i added a little paprika a lot of salt some small chopped walnuts and a small glass full of walnut oil.!

They thought it was really tasty and pleased to see i used "whole wheat" flour!!!!!I suppose if i havent papreka then a rusty chain sloshed about in the mix would do?Think ill stay with white bread!!

Asfor the biscuts,i havent got further than 250gms butter packet of ground nuts a handfull of flour and sugar! I have to use the butter as i havent got a fridge though nights theres a deep freez on deck with the door open!! looking at the frost mornings.
 
I have heard of the sea water recipe before as an old sea cook friend of mine (long deceased) used to feed the sailors on his boat with sea water bread and sell or trade the resultant saved salt to the locals. Same with bacon he used to be able slice it so you could see through it, Old Bu*ger! I do miss him and his favourite sayings. "whats up with you today? you have a face like a torn Are*hole" bless him!
 
The shower thread,i have a 10L pot of hot water ready stand up take a jug and pour the water over me standing up in the bag, then wrap a towle around and go below.

Haveing extra comfort near by i havent done it since i tried the first time and now with snow in the cockpits it a bit to healthy, i havet got (nor seen in Sweden) the custom of rolling in snow after a sauna or hot shower¨nor a Sweed taking a cold shower!!

A moos with its walm hair never washes, as it removes the oils--smells a bit though
 
I dont know? I found this premixed flour next to ordinary flour in LIDL which is Aldi marche market,Have a look in your nearest Aldi and if they havet ask where it can be found,Its the first time ive seen it in stocked.
 
I remember a programme on BBC about a girl who stopped washing her hair for some reason (possibly allergic reaction to the shampoo). Apparently the hair became horrible lank and smelly for several weeks and then the natural oils took over, and the hair stopped smelling, and became as easy to manage as after a proper shampoo and conditioner.

whether that would work if the hair was getting a regular sprinkling of salt water is a different matter.
 
What recipt do you use and how do you do it;do you pressure cook or pressure free?



The shower post,For 6 weeks i couldent wash hair or anything else--it dident get better was a releif when i found somewhere quite to wash! In cold regions public showers shoudl be more and work!
 
On i hate the cold! and cold water! Im or rather was takeing this boat to Toulon before the rains swell the awful Rhone. Then i met a girl and she needs help with lots of things so time is slipping by and the boat seems to have shrunk???
 
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