Today is my second day in baking bread in my life. I am easy to excited and fast to fall in love with something new and creative. This morning i bought The Bread Baker's Apprentice which The Flash Loaf recommended and find a recipe easy to follow and also funny to made —— the breadsticks. I use the white bread formula to make the dough, and using the half dough to make a simple loaf for my breakfast , another half dough to make my fingerfood breadsticks. The outcoming is delicious, i like the milk smell fill in my room when i am baking. I like the shape of the breadsticks, long, crisp and litte soft inside.

those are my second bread: white bread loaf and my breadsticks.

All done. Most are parm cheese, but also salt&pepper, and just plain. Yummy!

Laid out on half sheet pan. Do not crowd.

Cut just a few at a time, dough is soft and sticky

I work in halfs, and use grated parm cheese on the board

Hey,

I'm looking for some good breadstick recipes. I have Peter Reinhart's American Pie book, I don't know if any of those doughs transfer well into bread sticks. Also any good tips for shaping the sticks? Much appreciated.

Doughboy