A Bread Test

On Tuesday we had some wonderfully cool weather so I decided to bake some bread and try out a new technique, that I read about on The Handmade Dress, for storing it. I wanted a narrow loaf of bread so I dug out my long and narrow pan.The pan isn't a bread pan, it is a Wilton cake pan, but it works very well for making a long loaf of bread similar to what comes from the store.

After baking the bread I let my loaf cool completely and then sliced it from end to end.

Next I placed half the loaf onto a cotton tea towel and wrapped the towel around the bread;

Then I placed the wrapped bread into plastic bags;

And put it into the freezer. On Thursday I took out a slice of bread and heated it in the microwave.

The bread was soft and moist and almost as good as it was the day it was baked.