From: Pete Cuiry 
Subject: Outback Bread
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 09:03:35 -0700 (PDT)
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Terri,

Here's a recipe I have for a bread at Outback.

Outback Steakhouse Honey Wheat Bushman Bread

Along with an entree at this popular steakhouse chain,
comes a freshly baked loaf of this dark, sweet bread,
served on it's own cutting board with soft whipped
butter. One distinctive feature of the bread is its
color. How does the bread get so dark? While you may
notice the recipe includes instant coffee and cocoa,
these ingredients will not give it it's deep dark
chocolate brown color - not even close. Usually breads
that are this dark -- such as pumpernickel or dark bran
muffins -- contain caramel color, an ingredient often
used in the industry to darken foods. Since your local
supermarket will not likely have this mostly commercial
product, we will make the caramel color from a mixture
of three food colorings -- red, yellow and blue. Just
be sure to get the food coloring in the little droppers
so that you can count the drops as you measure. That's
very important to getting the color just right. You may
also opt to keep the color out. The bread will
certainly taste the same, but will look nothing like
the real deal. I suggest using a bread machine for the
mixing and kneading, if you have one.

                    1 lb. (small)     1+ lb. (medium)  
                       2 lb. (large)
Water                           1+ cups
Butter                           2 Tbs.
Honey                           + cup
Bread Flour                           2 cups
Whole Wheat Flour                         1q cups
Cocoa                           1 Tbs.
Sugar                           1 Tbs.
Instant Coffee                           2 tsp.
Salt                           1 tsp.
Yeast                           2+ tsp. (1 pkg.)

Water                           + cup
Red Food Coloring                        75 drops
Blue Food Coloring                        45 drops
Yellow Food Coloring                           30 drops

Add ingredients to machine according to manufacturer's
directions.

Once the machine begins to mix the dough, combine the
food coloring with + cup water and drizzle it into the
mixture as it combines.

After the dough is done, let it rest to rise for about
an hour. Remove it from the pan when the dough has
doubled. Punch dough down and divide it into 8 even
portions. Form the portions into tubular loaves about 8
inches long and 2 inches wide. Sprinkle the loves with
cornmeal and place them on a cookie sheet. Cover and
let rise for another hour. Preheat the oven to 350¦F
and bake loaves for 20-24 minutes. Loaves should begin
to lightly darken on top when done.

Hope this helps,
Pete
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