Whole-wheat bread

29Jan08

Sometimes, what I crave is something grainy and substantial, and at that point, only whole wheat bread will do. There are quite a few variations on this theme, some seeming to be of the opinion that simply using some whole wheat flour makes a whole wheat bread. It’s true that only using the [...]

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Tags: pre-ferment, whole wheat

Pizza dough, take two

21Jan08

Failure should be a learning experience, so I decided to tackle the pizza dough again. Things went seriously south on the first attempt (weak dough that held no air, general cracker-like result), and I needed to see why. For best narrative results, read about the failure first. Then the story seems more [...]

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Tags: pizza dough

Pizza dough failure

13Jan08

Well, if all of the bread turned out perfectly, I would never learn a thing. Usually, I don’t experience catastrophic failure in the bread realm; I can generally make it work through some tricky bit. Not this time, however. I’ll give the recipe and point out the several possible points [...]

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Winter oatmeal bread

10Jan08

This sounded like a good recipe to begin with, since (a) it is winter and (b) this is a fairly simple recipe. Before introducing bread baking terms like “windowpane” and “pre-ferment,” I thought I’d try something easy.
One way that I think about baking is how much time the recipe will require. For [...]

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Tags: oatmeal bread, spray oil, wet weather

Hello world!

04Jan08

One of my new year’s resolutions involved creating a blog. This resolution was on a list that included things like “See a dentist” and “Be a kinder, better person,” and I also wanted to do something fun. Not that getting one’s teeth cleaned isn’t fun, per se, but I wanted to be creative [...]

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