A couple of months ago, I bought a handmade stoneware
pottery bread baker from David Howard in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
His work was recommended by a good friend from Tennessee,
and I remember making yummy fresh bread in an automatic bread maker years ago.
The problem is the family didn’t like cylindrical bread,
so I used the appliance to process the dough, then baked it in a glass loaf pan
in the oven. Humbug.
Plus, there was just too much bread when all was said and
done. So I stopped baking.
The bread baker comes with a passel of recipes; the first
one I picked was cranberry walnut bread (pic at right).
A couple of weeks later, I made
pumpkin bread just in time for Halloween. Both came out delicious, and when
slathered with sweet butter, were extremely drool-worthy.
The piece is a work of art; I almost didn’t want to use
it. But I did, and I’m glad.
You can check out David Howard’s Handmade Stoneware
Pottery online at http://www.dhowardpottery.net/.
He takes orders online, on the phone, or by mail. And he doesn’t just offer
bread bakers. He’s got stoneware of all kinds in his shop.
I highly recommend his work.
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