So, I've delved into baking a few times. We got the Laurel's Bread book upon recommendation of our Jane Brody cookbook 16 years ago. I baked a few things, enjoyed it, but didn't have the time to devote to it between school, then kids and career and so on.
Then a few years back I got into baking breads sort of accidentally. My best friend volunteered me to make her wedding cake, so I beefed up my skills and got pretty good for an amateur baker and I do enjoy making specialty cakes for friends and family and occasional paying customers. But, we are pretty healthy eaters and cake, while yummy isn't something you eat or should eat every day. Plus, where we had moved (Northern Virginia and now more recently to Maryland), i could get some amazing bakery breads, but they were so expensive. $8 for a small loaf we could eat in one sitting. We decided I should start making our breads. I dibbled and dabbled, but never got into really with a toddler who refused to sleep.
Then, the move to maryland, becoming a three generation home with my mother in law moving in and we found ourselves wth a new wonderful kitchen AND finally some time to bake. So, a few weeks back, I stopped buying all bread and started making our own. Thus discovering, I have SO MUCH TO LEARN. And, like for many, The Fresh Loaf became my new home for help and inspiration.
This blog will be a trail of my triumphs and errors, which for now really does feel like more errors than triumphs, hence the bumbling in the title.
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I suspect that I'm not the only one that has eaten a "mistake". My imperfect loaves have been in appearance due to shaping and proofing errors more than anything else. If you're not learning, you're not trying hard enough.