La Cloche Flop
Was so excited to buy a Sassafras LaCloche artisan bread baker! Made up my usual whole-grain einkorn bread recipe which I've used many times and bake loaves in glass pans with success. Spread cornmeal on dome base as directed and followed the Sassafras instructions exactly. My loaf didn't look like all those nice photos of a round loaf; it looked like a cake. The bottom was stuck like glue to the base and I had to gently lift out the bread in pieces and then soak the dome base in water to remove the rest. The bread had a nice texture, moist and a little chewy. I saved the bread pieces to make stuffing. I wonder why it didn't rise up into a nice round loaf and why it stuck so bad to the base. Any ideas? Thanks! I will try again. I've made our family's bread from scratch for over 40 years, but only in glass or metal loaf pans. I'm presently trying to get a sourdough starter made after 2 failures. But I'm determined to bake an "artisan" sourdough loaf............