==== "Remember always that a wise man walks with his head bowed; humble like the dust." -Master Kan==
Labor Day Bread Medley
I got a bit out of control during the Thursday evening through Monday period of the Labor Day weekend here in the States.
Front row:
Today we're having a party and I figured (yesterday), I'd make some ciabatta. I never made it before and decided to make Reinhart's (BBA) recipe based on biga. I did scale it up a little to make slightly more. In the process of doing the calculations, I think I discovered some errors in the percentages and corrected them. I made the bread using the corrected recipe (I'll post on that seperately).
Received the book finally 2 days ago. I had pre-ordered from Amazon and they kept claiming it wouldn't ship to me until October. I complained with customer service as others were receiving it, and when I placed a new order, it said it would ship immediately (I cancelled that one of course). That caused them to send it right away.
Reinhart's 100% Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread
I made this rye-fennel crackerbread from the new Leader book, Local Breads. Easy and good! The recipe is here.
Susanfnp
So for the first time this week, I got together some people would had expressed interest in starting up a bread baking club and we crowded into my tiny kitchen and baked a dozen baguettes! I had originally intended to have a side by side comparison of baguettes with/without poolish, but just getting introduced to the bread making process was plenty for round one. We used Leader's parisian daily bread recipe for half ver batim, and substituted about 250g of poolish in for the other half of the breads.
Two Starters: Sponge-started white (french?) above, yeast-leavened sourdough below
Whilst cleaning out the coin container on my dresser in preparation for taking the coins to the supermarket to be counted, I found an unused gift card from Barnes & Noble. Had it been there 8 months? 20 months? Who can say; the question was - what to do with it?
