She was back for yesterday’s bake and all seemed well enough until the dough went completely missing at the 1 ½ hour mark into the final counter proof. It is a short story so I will tell it and it is all Lucy’s fault if you ask me. I’m looking at her right now and she looks very guilty to me.
Here it is the middle of the week and Lucy is nowhere to be found claiming she semi-retired and only works for the Friday bakes not Tuesday bakes. I told her I was totally retired and would help her in a pinch and she wanted to know when was the last time I baked her any dog biscuits.
New Year’s Eve Pizza Tradition
Here it is…another year gone by so fast Lucy nearly missed it entirely. It was good one to remember though with our daughter getting married and her and her new husband here for the end of year pizza tradition…and this time he got to form the pies while she got to top them!
My SIL get me the instant pot for x-mas and my daughter got me the induction cooktop that I used to make the pizza sauce this time. Instead of taking 4-5 hours on the cooktop it was done in 2 hours and every bit as good.
Lucy told me that, in the old days, Jewish bakers in Poland and around Vienna started baking these cookies shaped like a horn or twist several hundred years ago. The root Yiddish word for Rugelach means little twists or horn and are made from triangles of dough rolled up with a filling inside.
Here we are, nearly at years end, and the time to reflect on the past, present and future. Lucy doesn’t do any of that of course, being small minded and down right stupid but the rest of should not use her as a guide in anything we do except maybe bread baking once a week.
We should be thoughtful and truthful with ourselves in all things, especially this time of year as we reflect on the past year, experience the current Holiday Season and project ourselves into the future of next year.
Lucy is back to making white bread batards with a small bran levain. But this one was a bit different in a couple of 3 ways. First off, the levain was a white one that was retarded for a week after it was built and the bran didn’t go in until the day before the bake as build number 4.
On October 12, 2009 you could have bought 55,000 bitcoins for a whopping $55.22 using PayPal from Sirius. Today you would have $1 Billion - with a B. Never ,in the history of mankind, has so much wealth been created so fast by doing so little. This explains why all the naysayers are so horribly wrong about the times we live in today. Never ever, at any time in the 4.6 billion years that the earth has existed ,has it been so great and wonderful to be alive ......as it is today.
Lucy did finally back to what we would call normal so it was time to get some holiday baking done. We managed to get a fruitcake baked off and then we did a 25% whole wheat fruit and nut holiday bread to make up for a few weeks of blandish white bread bakes.
Lucy is back to work but she isn’t happy – not one little bit. She just started to get back into the swing of things when they announced that 800 million jobs worldwide will be eliminated by robots in the next 12 years. Lucy thought she did important stuff but she is mostly an esily replicable pet and baking apprentices will be the 2nd to go - after pets.
