Frozen Bread Dough

[JudyJB]

This isn't exactly a recipe, but it has potential.

I am always trying to carry a couple of week's groceries with me so I don't have to shop in camp stores. I like bread occasionally, but by the time I eat a loaf, it is likely to be stale.

Anyway, I found some frozen bread dough. It keeps several months in the freezer. All you have to do is put some non-stick spray or butter in a loaf pan, or any kind of pan, I suppose, pop the frozen dough and let it rise for 5-7 hours. Then you bake it.

It smells wonderful and tastes good, also. Now I am not wasting so much bread and I always have a loaf available in the freezer. I suppose you could use it to make pizza, as well. Hmmm. Have to try that.

[bluepinecones]

Judy, you didn't tell us the name of it. Easy to find?

[Bethers]

I don't eat much bread either. Last loaf I bought was in the lower 48. That said, I try to keep room in my freezer for it - as then I only take out one or two slices from it as needed. I really am happy when it's down to 1/2 a loaf or less, and I have that freezer space for other things ... but this works for me. If I bake a loaf like you (which sounds wonderful) I'd eat way too much when it comes out of the oven. When I was in AZ I bought loaves from the Farmer's Market and sliced them and froze ... then I had some delicious bread when I needed it. Those didn't last long.

But I'd need to freeze the bread after making the loaf, too ... just doesn't last for me otherwise.

[mitch5252]

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Rhodes is a very popular brand of frozen bread dough/rolls:

http://www.rhodesbread.com/products/view/814#Traditional-Bread

And here are 41 recipes using frozen bread dough...you are making me hungry for bread.
Damn diabetes!

http://allrecipes.com/recipes/everyday-cooking/convenience-cooking/frozen-food-recipes/frozen-bread-dough/

Could you possible let the dough sit out just a little while until you could get a large knife through it and then cut it in halves or thirds and put those in the freezer?

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[JudyJB]

Yup, I checked and it is the Rhodes brand. I think I got it at an Albertsons, not Wal-Mart. I got a three-pack of white bread.

With this last loaf, I put it briefly in the microwave until it was just slightly unthawed. At that point, you could cut it up and refreeze it, I think. It does not make a really big loaf anyway, and I think only paid maybe $3.50. The baked loaves do keep several days unthawed, but it is so good and fresh, I don't think it would last that long. I sliced the end and the next big piece last night and ate it with butter and jam. Had another piece for breakfast.

Actually, you can refrigerate most bread dough for a few days, especially if it is a sweet roll dough and has extra sugar in it for the little yeasties to eat when you take them out of hibernation. I have some sweet roll dough in my refrigerator right now. Just whack at it if it starts to rise and put it back in the refrig.

Thanks for the website.

Or, you could just buy some yeast and throw some real bread together. My grandmother, my mother, and my father all made bread. This is the recipe I was taught when I was 9 or 10:

2 pkgs dry yeast dissolved in 1.5 cup warm water
3 T sugar
2 T Crisco or butter
1 T salt
6-7 cups of bread flour (must use real bread flour)

Add the sugar, crisco or butter, and salt to the water that has the yeast dissolved in it. Add about half the flour and stir. Then keep adding flour until the dough is soft but not sticky. Let it sit a few minutes and dump it onto a floured surface. Rub the stuff left in the bowl with your hands and add it to the stuff on the surface. Knead it a couple of minutes.

Put some butter or Crisco in the bowl and rub it around so all sides and bottom are covered. Dump the lump of dough back in the bowl and turn it over so there is a side up that has butter or shortening on it. Cover with saran or foil and let it sit until double. When double, knock it down a bit and knead it some more. Doesn't matter how you do this. Take out all your frustrations on the dough. Put it back in bowl and let rise some more.

Butter or grease two bread tins. Cut the dough into two parts and knead each one individually, then put in pans, let rise until almost double. (My mother used to brush melted butter on the tops before baking.) Bake at 375 or 400 or so for maybe half an hour. (Just look at it, and when the top looks brown, take it out. Dump the hot bread onto something so it can cool. Eat. Bread is a lot easier than it looks because you can be so rough with it and do so many things. No need for a bread machine and premixed garbage!

[JudyJB]

I've been buying the frozen bread dough and really enjoying it as bread, but the other day I got hungry for pizza so this is the result:

[Bethers]

Looks delicious.

[mitch5252]

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That literally made my mouth water.
Did it taste as good as it looks?
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[sharon]

Mmmmm...that looks really good!!

[IrishIroamed]

Here's another recipe for Rhodes frozen white bread. It can be a meal (for a few people) or cut into smaller pieces, an appetizer for parties or GTGs. Kind of like a baked calzone.

1 load Rhodes frozen white
1box frozen chopped spinach
1# bulk Italian sausage
8 oz shredded mozzarella
1 clove garlic or 1/2 t garlic powder
1/2 t oregano
1 T parsley
2 T parmesan

Defrost bread & left rise per package directions. Brown & drain sausage. Squeeze spinach & add to sausage. Add all other ingredients except the mozzarella. Let cool. Roll dough large enough to wrap the ingredients. Add to mozzarella sausage mixture. Mix together & wrap in dough. Brush with egg white. Bake at 350 for 35 minutes or until brown.

[Redwahine]

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