Garlic Bread

Looking for a sure-fire method for great garlic bread.

What do you use? Chopped garlic? Garlic powder or garlic salt? Garlic
butter?

How do you cook it so that it browns and hardens correctly?

put split bread to broil .. let get lightly browned, a swipe of EVOO w/ a
brush and rub w/ garlic.
perfect.

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Looking for a sure-fire method for great garlic bread.

What do you use? Chopped garlic? Garlic powder or garlic salt? Garlic
butter?

How do you cook it so that it browns and hardens correctly?

Quoted message said:

Looking for a sure-fire method for great garlic bread.

What do you use? Chopped garlic? Garlic powder or garlic salt? Garlic
butter?

I spread slightly toasted oiled bread with roasted garlic, sprinkle
with black pepper, oregano, and grated parmesan.

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How do you cook it so that it browns and hardens correctly?

Toast under broiler until just golden... don't know what you mean by
"hardens".

Naturally the more difficult part for many is to locate good italain
bread.

Sheldon

Quoted message said:

Looking for a sure-fire method for great garlic bread.

What do you use? Chopped garlic? Garlic powder or garlic salt? Garlic
butter?

How do you cook it so that it browns and hardens correctly?

I buy a loaf of "french" or "italian" bread. Roast a head of garlic at 350F
for about an hour. Slice the bread, or split it down the middle to be
sliced later (your choice). Squish out the garlic paste from the roasted
cloves onto the bread. Drizzle with olive oil and lightly sprinkle with
salt. Pop it under the broiler until the bread starts to get toasty.
Voila!

Jill

Quoted message said:

Looking for a sure-fire method for great garlic bread.

What do you use? Chopped garlic? Garlic powder or garlic salt? Garlic
butter?

How do you cook it so that it browns and hardens correctly?

To the latter question, I make sure to spread the spread *thin*, and
watch the bread as it cooks (400 F for about 5-8 minutes is my gut
feeling of how long it takes me, but I've never timed it).

As for what I use, softened butter, garlic powder, and enough parmesan
cheese to make the paste pretty thick. Then on top, I sprinkle what we
used to call "Fairy Dust" at Pizza Hut (I was a waitron there in the
'80s): Ten parts parmesan cheese and one part dried oregano, mixed
together well.

serene

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Looking for a sure-fire method for great garlic bread.

What do you use? Chopped garlic? Garlic powder or garlic salt? Garlic
butter?

How do you cook it so that it browns and hardens correctly?

There's no sure-fire method. First you need good bread. Next you need
good garlic. I sometimes use olive oil and sometimes butter. Maybe
some of each.

Slice the garlic and put in a little cup. Add the butter/oil. Cook in
microwave until the flavor is infused. At this point one time, my
brother asked what to do with the garlic slices? I looked at him like
he was crazy, and explained that they were the best part. If not
everybody wanted them, then just put them on part of the bread slices
and only the lucky people would get those. In our family, everybody
gets a share. After adding the garlic and butter/oil to the top of the
bread, broil until browned. Fight over the ones with the most garlic on
them.

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Quoted post said:

Looking for a sure-fire method for great garlic bread.

What do you use? Chopped garlic? Garlic powder or garlic salt? Garlic
butter?

How do you cook it so that it browns and hardens correctly?

I use crushed garlic and olive oil and brush it on.

Quoted message said:

Looking for a sure-fire method for great garlic bread.

What do you use? Chopped garlic? Garlic powder or garlic salt? Garlic
butter?

How do you cook it so that it browns and hardens correctly?

There's garlic bread and garlic bread, i take your request to be
indicative of the latter rather than the former? I have used a knife i
sliced garlic with to then cut butter and butter a piece of toast, to
remarkably good effect.

However the garlic bread "to die for" is IMO conditional on 1 very
important ingredient. Really very good bread. An excellent garlic
bread is capable of being made with a loaf of dark rye, but i prefer a
loaf of ordinary white French. Fortunately i live in an are where i can
purchase easily a good loaf of French bread. As well as just about any
other type of bread if for some reason i do not wish to or are not abel
to make my own, a loaf of French bread is very easy.

Next i prefer to take a couple of days to make a quantity of beurre de
aiole. And whether to include cheese or not along with what specific
herbs.

Ordinarily i would take a couple of cups of butter and melt , clarify it
and add several (2 - 3 ) cloves of mashed garlic. I would then cook
that butter and garlic for several minutes without browning it. Remove
from the heat, pour into a container and add 1 clove of finely diced raw
garlic to the warm butter which i would then seal and set to chill in
the refrigerator overnight.

Early the next day, hours before using the butter to make the garlic
bread with i would add whatever herbs i thought necessary. If using
grated cheddar on the garlic bread i would also use oregano. If using
parmesan or other hard grated cheese i would probly use chopped parsley
or sage, some people like tarragon but i think it is too sweet. It is
not unheard of to use finely chopped shallots and a bit of wine.

Once the butter is sufficiently flavoured one slices the loaf of bread
in half, liberally and generously slather the 2 halves with the butter,
i will build up an 1/8 inch layer of the flavoured butter, then sprinkle
even more of ones chosen herbs over it and add any cheese one may
desire. Many people prefer it without the cheese.

Then set to toast in a hot oven of at least 400 degrees, for about 5
minutes then turn down to 350 and either watch for the cheese to begin
to bubble and then move the loaf to the broiler so the cheese may brown
a bit, or, if not using cheese, retain the loaf in the oven until it
begins to 'toast. It is important if one 'slathers' ones bread with
butter to make a cradle of tin foil for it to sit in with only the top
exposed. If one uses the butter sparingly a simple cookie sheet or large
roasting pan is sufficient.

The above instructions will produce a highly flavoured soft loaf, some
people like a harder, crunchier loaf, in which case it is almost
preferable to lightly toast the loaf before adding the butter and
finishing the loaf with the butter in place.

One can also do a half way decent fix with garlic granules stirred into
cold butter, and then use that to butter a piece of toast fresh from the
toaster, lightly buttered with that butter will be nice.

Margarine do not make good garlic bread at least IMO. But the Italians
make a version of garlic bread with olive oil.
---
JL

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Looking for a sure-fire method for great garlic bread.

What do you use? Chopped garlic? Garlic powder or garlic salt? Garlic
butter?

How do you cook it so that it browns and hardens correctly?

For what is quite possibly the most convoluted garlic bread recipe visit:

http://www.spaghettisauceandmeatballs.com/garlic_bread.html

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Andy

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Quoted message said:

Looking for a sure-fire method for great garlic bread.

What do you use? Chopped garlic? Garlic powder or garlic salt? Garlic
butter?

I spread slightly toasted oiled bread with roasted garlic, sprinkle
with black pepper, oregano, and grated parmesan.

Quoted message said:

How do you cook it so that it browns and hardens correctly?

Toast under broiler until just golden... don't know what you mean by
"hardens".

Naturally the more difficult part for many is to locate good italain
bread.

Sheldon

Isn't that the truth! Good bread is extremely hard to find here in Cesspool
Florida. I like a bread with a crispy, crusty outside, but a soft, yielding
inside. Here it's just all squishy, like Wonder Bread. My husband says
it's so that all the old folks that flock to Florida can eat the bread with
no teeth. LOL.

kili

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Looking for a sure-fire method for great garlic bread.

What do you use? Chopped garlic? Garlic powder or garlic salt? Garlic
butter?

How do you cook it so that it browns and hardens correctly?

This is wrong but this is how I do it. I split a big French bread in half.
I smear it good with salted butter then I put slivered garlic on it. Then I
shove it under the broiler. Sometimes I put sliced Mozzarella on it. I
don't think it is Italian garlic bread but it's good. Gawd, sometimes I'll
buy that frozen Texas toast. I know, I know... but it's good.

Michael

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Looking for a sure-fire method for great garlic bread.

What do you use? Chopped garlic? Garlic powder or garlic salt? Garlic
butter?

I spread slightly toasted oiled bread with roasted garlic, sprinkle
with black pepper, oregano, and grated parmesan.

Quoted message said:

How do you cook it so that it browns and hardens correctly?

Toast under broiler until just golden... don't know what you mean by
"hardens".

Naturally the more difficult part for many is to locate good italain
bread.

Sheldon

Now that you mention it, what *is* a good Italian bread? I see it at
Breadsmiths all the time. I have purchased it and it's good but it's more
of a sandwich bread. It's good with salami. Maybe I need to go to The Hill
to find it. And what is that breakfast thing with egg in the middle? It's
fried bread with egg in the middle.

Michael

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Looking for a sure-fire method for great garlic bread.

What do you use? Chopped garlic? Garlic powder or garlic salt? Garlic
butter?

I spread slightly toasted oiled bread with roasted garlic, sprinkle
with black pepper, oregano, and grated parmesan.

Quoted message said:

How do you cook it so that it browns and hardens correctly?

Toast under broiler until just golden... don't know what you mean by
"hardens".

Naturally the more difficult part for many is to locate good italain
bread.

Sheldon

Now that you mention it, what *is* a good Italian bread? I see it at
Breadsmiths all the time. I have purchased it and it's good but it's more
of a sandwich bread. It's good with salami. Maybe I need to go to The Hill
to find it. And what is that breakfast thing with egg in the middle? It's
fried bread with egg in the middle.

Michael

My sister used to make that bread thing with the hole that you crack the egg
into. No one else in our family ever made it, so I don't know WTF it is
either.

IME, a good Italian bread (we used to be good friends with the Campione's
who had their own bread company in Milwaukee) has a crisp, crunchy crust
with a squishy inside. It can have sesame seeds on it or not. It's a long
loaf, like French bread, but, oh, so much better.

kili

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Quoted message said:

Looking for a sure-fire method for great garlic bread.

What do you use? Chopped garlic? Garlic powder or garlic salt? Garlic
butter?

How do you cook it so that it browns and hardens correctly?

Not for purists:
I pulvurize garlic, cover with butter, microwave on 50% until it is Hot
but not browned. paint this mixture into the deep-cut slices of bread of
choice and warm in the oven at 200 until crisp.
blacksalt

Works for me. Sounds just like what my mom always did when I was a
kid. She gilded the ranuncula, however, by adding a dusting of
paprika. Talk about "not for purists" ;-)

TammyM

I make up a garlic butter...the day or night before I want garlic bread.
This allows for better flavour melding in my opinion. I usually have/make
garlic toast. But either way the quality of the bread is as important as
the quality of the garlic butter. I use softened salted butter at a guess 1
stick. I hand cut in half some (depending on size 4-5) garlic cloves. That
way I can check for the dreaded green shoot in the center and take steps to
remove it. I then use my food processor to mince the garlic with a little
parsley, chives and oregano. Then mix the garlic bits into the softened
butter well. Then scrape the mixture onto some plastic wrap and roll it up
into a sausage shape and refridgerate over night to allow for melding of
flavours. (Sometimes I add some minced shallot instead of the other herbs
to the garlic.)

*I really enjoy using a thick/stiff/tough crusted type rye bread for the
actual garlic toast, but that's my personal taste. Spread the garlic butter
on one side of the bread slices, sprinkle with parm cheese (to taste) and
place a cookie sheet of prepared toast slices close under the broiler to
toast. Move the toast slices into a cloth cover serving bowl when done; to
help keep it warm and to look purdy too.

*I'm talking rye bread you almost need a hacksaw to cut thru the crust.

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> Looking for a sure-fire method for great garlic bread.
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> What do you use? Chopped garlic? Garlic powder or garlic salt?
> Garlic butter?

I spread slightly toasted oiled bread with roasted garlic, sprinkle
with black pepper, oregano, and grated parmesan.
>
> How do you cook it so that it browns and hardens correctly?

Toast under broiler until just golden... don't know what you mean
by "hardens".

Naturally the more difficult part for many is to locate good
italain bread.

Sheldon

Now that you mention it, what *is* a good Italian bread? I see it at
Breadsmiths all the time. I have purchased it and it's good but it's
more of a sandwich bread. It's good with salami. Maybe I need to go
to The Hill to find it. And what is that breakfast thing with egg in
the middle? It's fried bread with egg in the middle.

Michael

My sister used to make that bread thing with the hole that you crack
the egg into. No one else in our family ever made it, so I don't know
WTF it is either.

IME, a good Italian bread (we used to be good friends with the
Campione's who had their own bread company in Milwaukee) has a crisp,
crunchy crust with a squishy inside. It can have sesame seeds on it
or not. It's a long loaf, like French bread, but, oh, so much better.

kili

I will say this, the Italian bread I buy is superior bread. Damned if the
stuff isn't good.I still can't find that egg thing. Even on the Internet.

Michael

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Michael 'Dog3' Lonergan said:

I will say this, the Italian bread I buy is superior bread. Damned if the
stuff isn't good.I still can't find that egg thing. Even on the Internet.

Michael

We always called it "toad in the hole", but that name also refers to a
british dish of sausages cooked in yorkshire pudding (yum!).

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Michael \'Dog3\' Lonergan said:

Now that you mention it, what *is* a good Italian bread? I see it at
Breadsmiths all the time. I have purchased it and it's good but it's more
of a sandwich bread.

That doesn't sound like the Italian bread we get around here. It sounds more
like an Italian shaped loaf pre sliced. We have an Italian bakery in our town
that makes wonderful bread, though it always seems especially good on Tuesdays
for some reason. It is a shaped loaf, long and rounded and tapered a bit at
the ends and cooked open rather than in a pan. It should have a nice crusty
outside and be soft in the middle. There is Italian bread there is good
Italian bread. It is well worth it to go to a good bakery and pay a little
extra for the good stuff.

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Looking for a sure-fire method for great garlic bread.

What do you use? Chopped garlic? Garlic powder or garlic salt? Garlic
butter?

How do you cook it so that it browns and hardens correctly?

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