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Making dough takes dough. And so does baking it. Okay, puns aside, competent bread baking takes time, money, and other resources. It's an intricate art as well as a demanding craft, playing with ingredients that have a magic and a biology. Bread for me is...
Files and recipes fill my folders. Many come from classes taken years ago, notes and half ledgible percentages marked on fading papers. The other day deciding what to bake, I sorted through some of these scribblings, coming upon a print-out from an email...
While I love cooking, there is nothing more satisfying to me then baking bread. After 10 plus years of serious bread baking, I finally have a basic core understanding. At the same time, baking remains a mystery, a meaningful search for definitions and for exactness....
"Makowiec (pronounced "Ma-KOH-viets") isn't, strictly speaking, a holiday bread. But it is a classic Polish dessert or tea bread that is commonly served around the holidays. And it is delicious." From The Fresh Loaf A staple of Eastern...
At their best, gloriously shameless in richness, this basic pastry livens up the worst blahs of a boring day. We call them doughnuts here. In Germany they call them "Berliners." Fllled or glazed, they are a sinful pleasure of absolute gluttony. My friend...
Last weekend I returned to a routine of late night baking, something to be experienced at least once in any baker's life; the graveyard shift of weighing, mixing, and cutting dough, waiting for the rise, gently rounding the pre-shape, the final shaping and then...
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