Bread Bible and Enchanted Broccoli Forest ERRORS
I am a novice who has found the help of SourdoLady, Floydm, Mountaindog et. al. to be unbelieveably helpful. What I find most puzzeling is how recipes can be published in books that have no possibility of working. There can be many examples but take for instance the Echanted Broccoli Forest of Mollie Katzen on page 70 where she lists ingredients for a Basic Bread Recipe. If one looks at it from a somewhat knowledgeable perspective there is no way that the recipe can work with only One pkg of yeast and only 2 cups of water. I am a novice and have been thru the recipe twice and it just ain't goin' to happen. You just can't put 8 and 1/2 half cups of flour into 2 cups of water....it won't fit. And no my problem is not the altitude, time of year or the weather outside. In my field of computers, Microsoft distributes software and the first year of any Microsoft release is known in the industry as the Beta or test release even though it goes out to the public as a final ready for purchase product. Everyone in computers knows this is the way it is and has always been for Microsoft. It is no secret. My question is simply that since Katzen and Beranbaum publish books with recipes that are neither tested in the kitchen or proof read in the galley sheets then should I just assume that all recipes in similar books are just Beta recipes? Please remember that the Katzen Basic Bread Recipe is pretty basic and should have been corrected early on in the process but was not. So as a novice do I just read the books for the general info and ignore the recipes? Thank goodness for thefreshloaf and its wonderful members......