Mendon and I have a new standard. Homemade bread. Wheat bread is particularly wonderful.
Mendon and I have a new problem. Only one bread pan and a recipe and bellies that call for two loaves at a time.
To begin, it can be done.
Even if your second bread pan is more along the lines of an 11"x 7" pyrex pan than the simpler 9" x 5".
As the Lovely Mendon is modelling for us, it just takes an extra two inches to make those pans the same dimensions while your bread rises. The ziplocks don't take to the oven particularly well, but using them for rising has been sufficient. Rinse and repeat (next weekend).
Our model, rather kindly, calls the misshapen one the "artistic loaf." Regardless, it's edible, and I don't mistake it for biscotti.
On a side note, is there a trick to getting a scheduled post to actually publish? This one is two days late, and only because I manually published it.
Right off the bat I notice you both knead your bread with expertise in comparison to my homely loafs! Cheers to you!
Mmmm. So long as you continue to make wonderful things like homemade bread and bao, I will continue to be like a stray cat--if you feed me, I only come back. :) You guys are wonderful friends.