February 9, 2008 - 6:28pm
Interesting disaster aversion
Thank goodness....
Today, I had two loaves rising on a baguette pan - a sweet, delicate, fruity dough that I wanted to try in a longer shape, for some reason. As I was putting the fully risen loaves into the oven, one of them slid off the pan and fell between the door and the oven floor! I put it back onto the pan as quickly as I could, but it had ultimately fallen back to half the size of the other loaf - and was wrinkly and ragged to boot. What else could I do? I baked it anyway. What do you know? It oven sprang(?) to almost exactly as large as the other one, with no dents, only some dark scars to indicate where the wrinkles had been. Very interesting.... and delicious!