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Rustic Bread

kdwnnc's picture
kdwnnc

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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alabubba's picture
alabubba

It is said that we eat with our eyes first.

Photos on here are a feast for the bakers soul.

kdwnnc's picture
kdwnnc

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.