The Tuesdays with Dorie group of bloggers have moved on to a second cookbook, Baking with Julia. Twice a month, I will be joining the 300 members to bake a recipe chosen from this cookbook. First up is White Loaves…a simple, yet delicious bread recipe.
My dough seemed very elastic…and there was a bit of trepidation as I formed the loaves. I almost tossed it in the trash and started over…thinking I may have added too much flour…but I trudged ahead. The dough rose beautifully each time…and formed stately, browned loaves in the oven. I took the bread out of their pans for the last 10 minutes of baking allowing the exterior to turn golden. A crisp crust and chewy interior…the taste testing hubby gave it his approval. Whew…
Our hosts will be the only ones sharing the recipe…it can be found here or here. Next up, Chocolate Truffle Tartlets!
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looks great!
Utter perfection, Dear! I thought this bread was really easy to make & tasted great. I’ll be using mine for this week’s FFWD recipe, too.
Great looking loaves
Gorgeous styling too!
Looks perfectly baked ! Love the crusty top . Nothing beats homemade bread
Looks perfect! With beautiful crusty top and tender inside!
After seeing this, I’ve gotta try this bread out for myself. It looks perfect.
What a fantastic loaf of bread!
I LOVE crusty bread!
The bread looks perfect , Mmmmmm!!! A slice of hot bread with a little butter , pure heaven
wow! looks so beautiful, airy & golden..a perfect loaf
I love homemade bread! This one looks so great!
The bread looks perfectly baked. Everything about it looks perfect – the shape, the colour, the crust, the soft interior.
wow! they’re perfect!
Looks amazing! Great job!
The bread is so light fluffy and gorgeous colour – what a perfect way to wake up in the morning (or at midnight
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Another winner of a recipe
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Perfect. The loaves are perfect. What a great new book to choose. I’m behind you 100%. Bake, girl, bake.
Good morning! Absolutely perfect.
This is going to be fun!
Wasn’t this a great recipe? Even for a bread newbie like me
I won’t be baking twice a month otherwise I would never eat anything but Dorie food but will choose the things I find the most challenging (like bread) once a month. Excited to have you along for the journey with me 
Looks like a fantastic loaf of bread. I can just taste it! But making it so early in the morning….????? xo
That bread looks perfect. I imagine it would make a fantastic grilled cheese sandwich. There is nothing like a loaf of homemade bread.
Fabulous photos!
That is one perfect loaf.
So glad you did not put it in the trash! sometimes it is best just to follow through, regardless of the instinct. Your homemade loaves do look amazing. I do need to get in the kitchen and bake some bread-it has been too long. Have a great day Liz!
Gorgeous! And Tuesdays with Dorie looks like such an amazing undertaking!
The loaves look superb! I wish I had a slice!
Lizzy,
Great looking bread, especially slathered with butter. I want a piece for breakfast.
Looks perfectly done white and lightly brown arround it.
Ridwan
Honestly, they look completely perfect! I can only imagine how great they taste!
Mary x
It’s gorgeous! I’m so glad you forged ahead instead of trashing the project. Wow, they rose so beautifully. Congrats on perfect white bread.
The easiest way for someone to win my heart and belly is by baking me bread at least a few times a week
Both rustic AND elegant!
Yum,can’t wait to see what you bake up!
No trepidation here – it’s a beauty. May have to pull out that classic cookbook – been awhile since I visited it. See what you started?
That bread looks beautiful! I just made a spelt bread and its a tad on the flat side….. I’ll have to check out the recipe to see if I can figure out why mine didn’t rise as much. Cannot wait for the Chocolate Truffle Tartlets!
Love this Lizzy and make me hungry I love Julia too:))
I have never baked bread at home simply because I feel with two of us, I can’t into baking one. However, a home baked version is surely worth the try then the ready made ones esp after seeing the outcome from the pics.
This sounds YUMMY..Bookmarked..
Aarthi
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Of course your loaves turned out perfect! I would expect nothing less, Lizzy!
Those loaves look perfect to me. I am still at the free form bread making stage or I flatten them out and make pizzas. I am going to actually put them in loaf pans on my next try, hehe. They look great and have a great day.
These look like perfect loaves
Well done. And go you for powering through!
I am already slobbering at the next recipe
Awww, this makes me want to make a big ole batch of home made bread. So yummy and reminds me of home.
those are Beautiful loaves of bread!! I love the picture with the butter-that’s how I eat mine-thick slices of warm bread with tons of butter
looks fantastic!
Lizzy, these loaves looks gorgeous! I love the tip for crispy crust. I soooo need to get my hands on this book! Have a great day!
Beautiful bread! I could survive on bread and butter…seriously!
That’s one sexy loaf of bread! How do you make a bread that moist? I’m jealous.
Gorgeous photos! I would love to have a piece with a slab of butter and strawberry jam right this second! Mmmmm
Perfection my friend..perfection! Love the bread and how you made it!!!
Jeez such a sexy bread that is. looks a parcel, a killer parcel!!!
how do you manage to cook and blog at this pace? ;p
Just a beautiful loaf. great idea to take it out a few minutes out of the mold and finish baking for a golden exterior.
So glad you had fun with this!!! We thought this was great – oh, and I made half into cinnamon rolls!!
Isn’t homemade bread the best! I love it, especially toasted. Hope this very successful batch has you eagerly wanting to try more. It looks wonderful.
I want to steal your bread
Perfect loaves of bread. They look so delicious, I can almost smell them baking:)
I look forward to the tartine post! Your loaves look fantastic.
I never tried to bake bread and I looking at this loaf i know why: it looks so luscious I couldn’t stop eating it slice by slice.
My goodness! Those are some spectacular looking loaves. The rise is incredible. Way to go!
I have that book but haven’t cooked from it in years…need to open it back up again, it seems. I understand the trepidation, but the bread looks lovely!
Soft and delicious perfectly yummy bread !!
Perfectly beautiful bread! I really enjoyed doing a bread. I made one of mine with a cinnamon swirl. So nice to see so many FFwD people participating in this group. Looking forward to the tarts.
There is such a beauty in a simple, delicious loaf of fresh baked bread
soft and delicious…
300 members? Wow I certainly did not know that! That is an amazing food community. I love bread that has nice elastic texture. This looks so good. I can eat three times a day with simple toast with jam, sandwich, and maybe soup as a dinner with this bread.
Congratulations on your beautifully baked homemade bread! You’re off to a great start with this recipe, it looks wonderful;-)
Wow !!!!! Now isnt this the perfect loaf! Another winner!
Great looking bread, so light and airy. We made a decision to always add whole wheat flour, making our bread 50/50 so we can benefit from the added fibre. I received the Baking with Julia book for Christmas this year; I have yet to bake anything from it, but it looks incredible.
nice photos! i was a bit worried that i had too much flour too. glad everything turned out!!
That looks perfect to me! Yum!
Looks like they turned out perfect Liz!
HI…so glad you are baking in this group too. I’m really excited about some of these recipes and also really happy that I have friends, like you, baking along with me. Nice post and so glad your bread worked out.
That is a beautiful, perfect loaf of white bread, Lizzy! This is the kind of bread that I’m used to baking…I went a little bit out of my “comfort zone” when I made the rye bread!
I would love a slice of this with some jam with my coffee in the morning. Yumm:DDD
Beautiful, beautiful loaf, Lizzy! And what gorgeous photographs… I love this post! Can’t wait to see what else you share from this great book!
Sometimes, I think bread baking can be surprisingly amazing! Some bread doughs can be nice and smooth but the breads can turned to be dry or tough…Surprisingly, some bread doughs can be watery or lumpy and yet, the breads can turned out to be soft and delicious….It’s all about chemistry!
Lucky that you didn’t toss these breads into the bin and good that you went ahead to do the baking
Glad to be baking with you. This bread is perfect.
Always envy people who can bake. Nice recipe, Lizzy!
Great job that you didn’t give up, Lizzy! The loaves look beautiful!!
Oh beautiful bread, Liz! I’m glad you didn’t toss the dough! They look perfect! I bet a slice right out of the oven with a little dab of butter was just heavenly! : )
Your bread looks great!
It does look very soft and homemade bread…there’s nothing like it:)
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Thank goodness you didn’t throw the dough away. That is one perfect loaf! I love bread, any kind of bread … ok, maybe not durian bread, or pickled herring bread. Gimme that slab of butter to go with and I’m a happy girl … uh, woman.
These look like lovely loaves! Great job!
Bread is one of the things I hope to learn more about while in school. I can make it, but I want to know all the secrets!
This is a perfect loaf of bread! I just recently got over my fear of yeast and want to venture into making more of my own bread!
How terrific that you’re starting the new book! This recipe is a great way to kick things off.
I would never have cared to visit the grocery store if I had been your next door neighbor,Lizzy;)I can’t believe you baked these amazing loaves at home – you could just put every store to shame!Yummy,chewy homemade bread – what more could one ask for?
Definitely some beautiful loaves.
i love me a gorgeous home baked loaf of bread anyday! yours look so beautiful!
Your blog template is so pretty! And I like how you styled the photos for this post.
Lisa
Your bread looks so amazing, I love fresh made bread! I love your pictures, they make me want a slice right now:-) Hugs, Terra
Your bread looks great. Perfect 1st recipe for TWD-BWJ. Glad you’ll be joining the fun!
It turned out beautiful Liz. I admire you bread bakers and all you talented bloggers who can bake with groups.