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Home » Uncategorized » BBA Challenge: Greek Celebration Bread (Artos)

BBA Challenge: Greek Celebration Bread (Artos)

May 26, 2009 · WCC Administr@tr · 13 Comments

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It’s the end of week two of the Bread Baker’s Apprentice challenge and time to share the results of our Greek Celebration Bread. There were 3 breads to choose from that fell into this category, all of which were in the book – Greek Celebration Bread (aka Artos), Christophsomos (a Christmas bread), and Lambrosomo (an Easter bread).

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Greek Celebration Bread involves a dough made with a “poolish sponge” – a mixture of bread flour, water and yeast. This mixture is combined and allowed to ferment before introducing with the rest of the bread ingredients. Once you have made your poolish, it’s combined with bread flour, additional yeast, allspice, cinnamon, ground cloves, nutmeg, honey, orange zest, almond extract, eggs, olive oil and milk.

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A dough is then formed and kneaded, before it’s left to rise.

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After it’s risen, the dough is formed into a boule and left to rise a second time before baking.

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The bread is baked and to finish them off, a honey, sugar and orange zest glazed it brushed over the bread while still hot.

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Since the amount of dough that the recipe yielded was more than I expected, I made two small boules instead of one. I initially planned on making “Christophsomos”, a bread which included dried cranberries, golden raisins and toasted walnuts… however I mistakenly forgot to include these ingredients in the dough. It’s what happens when you’re trying to do too many things at the same time – which is often the case for me! What also intrigued me to the Christophsomos bread was the beautiful decorative cross on top of the boule.

dsc02014-8503268 Despite the lack of the fruit and nuts in the bread, I formed my Greek Celebration dough into a boule and topped it with the decorative cross seen on Christphsomos. I also studded the cross with dried cranberries. and continued with the rest of the Greek Celebration Bread recipe.

dsc02018-7191382 The result was beautiful… and the sweet smell of this bread was amazing.

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Be sure to check out the blogs of others who are participating in this challenge through Pinch My Salt’s site! If you would like the recipe, you can find it on pages 112 – 114 in Peter Reinhart’s book, The Bread Baker’s Apprentice.

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  1. Patty says

    May 26, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    Yummy! I need to get this book! It looks fabulous!

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  2. Bridget says

    May 26, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    Somehow I’d missed that you had joined this group. That’s so great! You’re going to learn so much.

    I absolutely love the shape of this bread.

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  3. Susie says

    May 26, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    Your breads look great. Love the way you did the crosses. 🙂
    Great job,
    Susie

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  4. Shauna says

    May 26, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    They look so pretty!

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  5. Chris says

    May 26, 2009 at 3:28 pm

    Stunning Joelen!! They came out just beautifully – and such an interesting combo of ingredients too. I’m so jealous. I have to get on the BBA bandwagon asap!

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  6. Anonymous says

    May 26, 2009 at 9:37 pm

    I really love the way you did the cranberries on top. How did you get them not to burn?

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  7. elly says

    May 27, 2009 at 2:12 am

    Looks fabulous! I love this bread. You are becoming quite the yeast brad diva!

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  8. BMK says

    May 27, 2009 at 1:23 pm

    Wow! Your bread looks like it came from a bakery!

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  9. Jessica says

    May 27, 2009 at 3:32 pm

    Beautiful!

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  10. Sarah says

    May 28, 2009 at 1:11 am

    So pretty!

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  11. Elyse says

    May 28, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    This bread looks fabulous! I love the BBA group. All of your breads are looking so amazing. Impressive!

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  12. Tangled Noodle says

    May 29, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    Beautiful breads! Your decoration of it is so wonderful.

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  13. Spryte says

    June 2, 2009 at 1:38 am

    Those are gorgeous!

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