After our last blog we were asked what is a horno? Horno is a mud adobe-built outdoor oven used by Native Americans and early settlers of North America. Originally introduced to the Iberian Peninsula by the Moors, it was quickly adopted and carried to all Spanish-occupied lands. The horno has a beehive shape and uses wood as the only heat source. The procedure still used in parts of New Mexico and Arizona is to build a fire inside the Horno and, when the proper amount of time has passed, remove the embers and ashes and insert the bread to be cooked. When cooking meats, the oven is fired to a "white hot" temperature (approximately 650 degrees Fahrenheit), the coals are moved to the back of the oven, and the meats placed inside. This horno was built in the back yard of Paul and Tarah in their Seattle home. The fruit wood fire brings the temperature up to 900 degrees which is great for pizzas but too hot for no-knead bread. Paul is a great bread maker once his horno has cooled down for the bread to be baked. (
http://www.farsi-una-pizza.blogspot.com/). See the photo on the right.
In our oven we have built a number of loaves of bread. We made a white organic flour bread, organic rosemary bread, a white organic flour bread with dark chocolate chunks from Green & Black’s organic 85% Cocoa (
http://www.greenandblacks.com/), a whole wheat bread, a rye bread with caraway seeds and a whole wheat raisin and cinnamon bread. We were able to give a half of a loaf to some of our friends. We bought White Wheat flour, a All Purpose flour, a Whole Wheat flour and a Bread flour all organic and all from King Arthur Flour. (
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/). We have due the cold weather that we have been having and due to the fact that we turn off our furnace at nights, we have been using the upstairs bath room and we use a small heater to keep the temperature up to 70 degrees. We brought in the outside thermostat in which tells us the temperature of the bath room in our kitchen. We both get up through the night to make adjustments on the heater. Get the flour, a bowl, a smidgen of yeast and a little water and build your own no-knead bread. See photo on the left.
After our last blog we were asked what is a horno? Horno is a mud adobe-built outdoor oven used by Native Americans and early settlers of North America. Originally introduced to the Iberian Peninsula by the Moors, it was quickly adopted and carried to all Spanish-occupied lands. The horno has a beehive shape and uses wood as the only heat source. The procedure still used in parts of New Mexico and Arizona is to build a fire inside the Horno and, when the proper amount of time has passed, remove the embers and ashes and insert the bread to be cooked. When cooking meats, the oven is fired to a "white hot" temperature (approximately 650 degrees Fahrenheit), the coals are moved to the back of the oven, and the meats placed inside. This horno was built in the back yard of Paul and Tarah in their Seattle home. The fruit wood fire brings the temperature up to 900 degrees which is great for pizzas but too hot for no-knead bread. Paul is a great bread maker once his horno has cooled down for the bread to be baked. (http://www.farsi-una-pizza.blogspot.com/). See the photo on the right. 
In our oven we have built a number of loaves of bread. We made a white organic flour bread, organic rosemary bread, a white organic flour bread with dark chocolate chunks from Green & Black’s organic 85% Cocoa (http://www.greenandblacks.com/), a whole wheat bread, a rye bread with caraway seeds and a whole wheat raisin and cinnamon bread. We were able to give a half of a loaf to some of our friends. We bought White Wheat flour, a All Purpose flour, a Whole Wheat flour and a Bread flour all organic and all from King Arthur Flour. (http://www.kingarthurflour.com/). We have due the cold weather that we have been having and due to the fact that we turn off our furnace at nights, we have been using the upstairs bath room and we use a small heater to keep the temperature up to 70 degrees. We brought in the outside thermostat in which tells us the temperature of the bath room in our kitchen. We both get up through the night to make adjustments on the heater. Get the flour, a bowl, a smidgen of yeast and a little water and build your own no-knead bread. See photo on the left. 
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