The Perfect Baguette Eludes Me... My Breads are Getting Worse...
Argh!
Recipe from 'Lorenza De Medici's - Tuscany The Beautiful Cookbook'
Like most Italian Cakes, this sweet Florentine pizza is linked to a religious feast: "Carnival". 
At one time lard was used instead of butter, which added to the flavor.
Today was a lovely day in Arizona. Still in our little rental RV. The garden is taking off and I'm procrastinating on buying dirt for my new garden area where the tomatoes need to get transplanted. That will be a hard day or two of work. So, I bake and train my dog instead.
Apparently I was in the mood of trying new things, with this bread I used: new recipe (Almond Milk Loaf from Dan Lepard's "A handmade loaf"), new yeast (a natural yeast from Japanese Shirakami-Sanchi region), as well as new bread pans from China, good thing everything turned out well!
Why not try something different for Valentines Day and give your love ones a real double chocolate treat. These biscotti are perfect and wrapped in a pretty red box with ribbons would be a real surprise when opened.
My friends thought I was crazy when I started grinding my own flour, but my love of baking I couldn't shake and I open my award winning bakery. Any one should be able to live their dream! I get a lot of inspiration from everyone loving the same thing - bread, and the baking of it. I sell the supplies or my bread I don't care as long as you have a passion for it...
Hi,
I thought some detail on creating laminated dough for croissants etc may be a popular subject.
CROISSANT DOUGH
MATERIAL | FORMULA [AS % OF FLOUR] | RECIPE [GRAMMES] | RECIPE [GRAMMES] |
Strong White Flour | 100 | 600 | 1000 |
Salt | 1.3 | 8 | 13 |
Milk Powder | 5 | 30 |
I watched a doco on TV recently on the erratic but – to my mind – much under-rated 60s UK band, The Small Faces. Their 1968 ‘concept’ album Ogden’s Nutgone Flake, a psychedelic rock classic, was one of the first albums I bought. I still treasure this unique work – for the great music, the warped and inspired narrative in “Unwinese” by Stanley Unwin, and the eccentric fold-out tobacco tin cover (in good nick, this album is now a prize collectors’ item fetching $300+ …but I’d never sell mine).
