bakingmaniac's blog

Hi folks!

I have 3 bread books: Hamelman, Forkish and a third... about 3 years ago, when I used to bake bland, dull, straight dough breads and had no idea TFL existed, my sister gave me this book (maybe she got tired of eating my dull bread while having to call it delicious!), which was a rather poorly translated Brazilian edition of a book called "Pains et viennoiseries de l'école Lenôtre".

Hi folks, 

I wanted to start my blog with a succesful bake :D. Don't be fooled though... I've been baking for the past 2 years, and this is the first baguette I am satisfied with. Comparatively to past baguettes, the biggest success of this bread were the 'grignes', or 'ears'. This was fruit of several improvements: