Sedore Bread Recipe

This recipe and instructions come from Jim In Maryland who got his Sedore stove in January 2011.

Recipe makes a wet dough, but that’s apparently what allows it to store in the fridge so well.

Here’s the wife’s recipe for the dough & baking it on a baking stone in the oven;

In a large bowl mix;

6 C lukewarm water

3 tsp yeast

3 tsp salt

13 C flour

Mix & let rest 2hrs (longer hasn’t hurt), lightly covered (she uses a hand towel & leaves it on in the fridge too) then refrigerate.

To use, take piece off & roll in flour and/or cornmeal (I just cornmeal & seed) & let rise 40 min (20 min of that would be pre-heating her baking stone).

Bake @450 for 30min.

In my Sedore adaptation, I don’t bother letting it rise (I figure it has 2-2.5hrs @200-250 to rise & bake). Right out of the fridge, I just roll it in seeds & cornmeal then place a semi-flattened piece on the 1” thick foil “airbake” in the Dutch oven (on the Sedores back shelf) & cover. I usually rotate the dutch oven about 1hr in, since the stack side is the hottest. When it’s done, it will be firm to the touch & no longer like a squishy risen doughball. I was told to let it cool before slicing but I usually can’t resist so I don’t think it matters.

I found that if I load the stove up & get the stack toasty when the bread first goes on, it cooks faster. On my brother-in-laws conventional woodstove, the dutch oven gets much warmer (~350) & it only takes 1-1.25 hours for them. With the lid on, the bread “steams” & comes out really tender w/o a crusty crust. Back in the baking stone days, I would butter the top while fresh to soften the crust. I no longer have to do that with the dutch oven method.

Figuring out Sedore bread was one of my first challenges/ goals. I love getting the free heat out of it & not running the oven @450 three or more times per week. Probably part of the reason our electric bill dropped almost $300..

Jim

Thanks to Jim. We are going to try this here at VisionStone Stoves. Seems like a wonderful idea.

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Letter from a happy customer.

Part of a letter from a satisfied customer in Maryland.

"We got the stove installed Saturday the 22nd. It’s been running great & we haven’t had to relight the stove since the first firing, even when we let it sit as just coals for up to 8hrs. We just rake it & throw more wood on. I’ve even played with some massive knotty logs & green wood (on top of the pile) & it eats it all up. Stack stays right at 200F with the draft set about 1/3 open. So far our only issue has been with how to deal with the heat it puts out. We found that for our size home we don’t have to keep it topped off at all times or load it right away when it runs out, thus the 6-8hr coal burns. When loading, it takes no time for the stack to reach 500F. In fact, with dry oak & hickory, it can reach 650+ in just a couple minutes so we really have to watch it. I’m guessing it’s good practice to get it up to 500 at every reload? Think I read that somewhere so that’s what I’ve been doing each reload. I was worried at first that our stack wouldn’t be tall enough at only 13.5ft but I don’t think it’s an issue since we don’t have any backpuffing like I’ve read about on the yahoo forum. Our home is a single story rancher & I positioned the stove so the stack exits as close to the peak as possible. At 13.5ft, it extends almost 5ft out the roof already so I really wasn’t looking forward to going any higher. Fortunately, it doesn’t seem like we’ll have to. Still don’t have the water pipe hooked up yet but will be trying out the thermo-siphon method next weekend. We also positioned the stove so the water heater is directly behind the stove on the other side of the wall, less than 3ft away. Hope the passive method works out so we don’t have to add a circulating pump. We’re glad we chose the Sedore, it’s a great stove! I’ll get you some pictures of our setup sometime this weekend."

Jim