Tag: bread

Discard French Bread

If you make sourdough, sooner or later your starter will be out of control and you’ll be looking for things to do with it. I found a French Bread recipe and decided to see if I could incorporate a starter. Photos coming soon....

Spicy Fennel Bread

A version of this on another website was way too wet — one problem of measuring by volume, not by weight, and me using weight....

Challah

Never did this before but had some fun doing it. Tried a couple of recipes and tweaked it a bit to get to this. The original dough was way too wet to work with and not at all like was described....

Buying A Mixer

A fair number of people have told me they’d love to bake more but they don’t have a stand mixer and can’t afford one. First of all, a mixer is a convenience. Okay, if you want to make something very wet like ciabatta or brioche, I’d say it’s a...

Ciabatta Rolls

A very wet dough makes these challenging, but worth it. Patience required....