March 30, 2010 - 12:25pm
Rustic Bread
Today's bake: Rustic Bread from this site. I haven't cut into it yet, but I have a feeling that it will have a nice, open texture. I didn't add any flour than what was in the recipe, so the result was a rather sticky dough that had so many bubbles while shaping that it got rather difficult. The dough was so lose that after shaping into a boule with as tight a skin as I could make, I had a rather flat pancake at the end of the final rise. But it had the best oven spring I have ever seen in a bread! I am very eager to see how it tastes; it looks beautiful.
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It is said that we eat with our eyes first.
Photos on here are a feast for the bakers soul.
the digital camera is just about dead. And actually, the bread didn't have the texture I was hoping it would have, but it tasted very good. It tasted very similar if not identical to the basic hearth bread in RLB's Bread Bible, which I have made before.