BAREFOOT
BAKING
COMPANY LLC
The Barefoot Baking Co. LLC
(765) 865-3034
208 Corwin Lane
Kokomo, IN 46902
By Appointment Only
Ten Things To Do With An Extra Loaf
Slice it horizontally and make a great muffelata sandwich for a crowd
Eat with dinner tonight, because you ate the first loaf on the drive home
French toast on Sunday morning
Wrap it tightly in plastic and freeze for up to six weeks
Cut it into cubes and make bread pudding, stuffing, or croutons
Slice it, drizzle it with olive oil, grill it, and rub it with a clove of garlic for bruschetta
Add Farmers' Market tomatoes, cucumbers, onion, and garlic for gazpacho
Hollow it out for your favorite dip, stew, or soup
Host an olive oil tasting, or a wine tasting
Hide it for a midnight snack all by itself
Favorite Toppings For Artisan Breads
Naked bread
Real Butter
Brie and Arugula
Roast Beef, Horseradish Cream, and Red Onion
Herb and Garlic Boursin Cheese
Olive Oil and Provolone
Dilled Shrimp Salad
Goat Cheese and Slivered Almonds
Ham, Honey, and Maytag Bleu Cheese
Mascarpone Cheese and Orange Marmelade
Ham and Swiss Cheese, then broiled
Fresh Tomatoes, Basil, Mozzarella, and Olive Oil
Avocado and Red Bell Pepper with a splash of Balsamic Vinegar
Bread Storage
The best way to store bread is to eat it the day it is baked. No matter how well you store it, it will never be as good as it was right after it was cooled from the oven. We recognize that sometimes a whole loaf of bread is difficult to eat in one day, so we recommend the following buying and storing techniques:
Hard Crusty Bread --- Store hard crusty breads (made without eggs or fats) on the cutting board, cut side down. You might also wrap just the cut end in plastic wrap. This technique works for 1-3 days, depending on the bread.
Freezing --- Baked bread freezes very well and partial loaves can be frozen even if they've been cut. Wrap very tightly in two layers of plastic wrap and then place into a plastic freezer bag. Freeze for up to 6 weeks. When thawing at room temperature, however, make sure that you don't remove the plastic until the bread is completely thawed. This will keep the bread from becoming dry.
Plastic bags --- Since we don't spray the bread with any anti-molding chemical at the Barefoot Baking Company, LLC, we usually recommend that breads stored in plastic bags should be refrigerated. Refrigeration slows down the growth of mold but also increases the rate of staling. The only breads we recommend to be stored in plastic bags are the sandwich style breads that are baked in a loaf pan and dense breads that aren't really protected by their crust. This includes our 100% whole wheat, our rye breads, zucchini bread, and sweet breads like banana breads.
Studies have indicated that bread stored in plastic bags are more likely to mold when they have condensation from sunlight. We try to reduce the amount of sunlight available for our bagged breads, but it is best to buy early and store the bread in a cool, dark place like your microwave or in a vented bread box. Re-bagging into a fresh, dry plastic bag may also help. We'd love to sell our breads without plastic bags, but we need to protect our buyers from nasty critters.
About Us
Primarily, we are an artisan bread making business. Artisan Bread is wholly natural, made with the freshest ingredients by hand. In our kitchen we don't use freezers, conveyor belts, or shaping and dividing machines for our loaves, and only the finest flours are used. We never use artificial ingredients.
Because each loaf is shaped by hand, no two look exactly alike.
And, no --- we aren't barefoot while in the bakery!
These breads are made with only natural ingredients, like King Arthur Brand flours (never bleached, never bromated), Kosher salt (no iodine added), and natural leaveners like our Kokomo sourdough starter. Even our commercial yeasts do not contain preservatives, so we must use the freshest available.
We are a small business, even by bakery standards, and we commit to our customers that we will continue to make the best tasting artisan bread in small batches without the artificial preservatives, stabilizers and conditioners that some large-scale manufacturers use.
