{"id":7186,"date":"2014-09-08T08:36:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T13:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artisanbreadinfive.com\/?p=7186"},"modified":"2019-04-03T20:06:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T01:06:03","slug":"dutch-crunch-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artisanbreadinfive.com\/2014\/09\/08\/dutch-crunch-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Crunch Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How is it that I’d never tried Dutch Crunch bread, never even heard of it? It’s a loaf that seems to be ubiquitous in the San Francisco area, and\u00a0it would seem that they have been keeping it all for themselves. Now that I’ve had it I can’t blame them. Dutch Crunch gets its name from a similar bread found in the Netherlands, which is called Tiger Bread (tijgerbrood<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<\/span>tijgerbol)<\/b>. It’s easy to see how it got that name. The tiger spots are created by covering the dough with a slurry of rice flour, sugar, yeast and toasted sesame oil. The fragrance of the sesame is fantastic and the slightly sweet crispy bits on the loaf are hard to resist picking off and snacking on before you ever cut into the bread.\u00a0<\/p>\n 1 pound dough from any of our books – I actually made the loaf in the photo from our Brioche recipe in The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day<\/a>, but I’ve also made them with our Master recipe, Peasant bread and Challah dough, pretty much any dough will work.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Topping:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n 1\/2 cup warm water<\/p>\n 1 tablespoon yeast – I used Red Star Platinum<\/a>, but Quick Rise\u00a0or Active Dry work too<\/p>\n 2\/3 cup rice flour<\/p>\n 2 tablespoon sugar<\/p>\n 1\/4 teaspoon salt<\/p>\n 1 tablespoon vegetable oil<\/p>\n 1 teaspoon sesame oil<\/p>\n <\/p>\nDutch Crunch Bread<\/h2>\n