The Real Tartine Way
A friend of mine, threw the question of "How could she introduce seeds and grains in bread" to her 11 year old daughter? So I told her, your life saver would be nothing but NUTELLA! (This is what every French kid is eating in France, every morning. My niece was so crazy about it that she basically ate Nutella for breakfast, lunch, tea break and dinner too! I hope she has grown out of this, phew!
Her question inspired me to change my style of baking a bit this week as I needed to show her my ideas on an actual loaf. At this point, am not sure if her daughter would be open enough to accept such concept but when my bread was out of the oven this morning....I was happy with the result.
Not much of wild activities this time (ears,stretch marks,etc)....everything looked so uniformed, a bit bored to look at.
So I named it 'An Obedient Brunette'.
Crumb Shot (Sorry, could not resist on having a bite before snapping a shot, it would be a crime not to eat it right there, right then!)
p/s: Baked with a stainless steel pot. Amazon told me that I needed to wait for 2 weeks before I could get my hands on the DO I ordered, bummer! Could hardly wait any longer....
Comments
I think your scoring looks very good. So neat and uniform. Both can be appreciated. Your shaping is excellent (something which I fall down on). Crumb and crust both look lovely.
Very successful bake. Enjoy!
- Abe
be necessary ? As I am only using a cutter blade here. Shaping, particularly having surface tension is actually a crucial step as it will determined how the loaf rise up later on. And that is why I am back to a lower hydration nowadays and improve on my scoring and shaping.
Whatever you are using seems to be working very well. Yes, both scoring and shaping works better with lower hydration and if I don't have the energy to battle with a high hydration dough then even if i'm following a recipe i'll drop the hydration.
Some lovely browning took place there, great crumb, looks wonderfully appetising.
so much. Your bakes look impressive to me too. Happy Baking!
Best Regards,
Sandy
and seeds is the perfect bread to win over young ones. As time goes on more whole grains and other adds in can go in and they will love them. Good bread conquers all:-) Your read looks perfect! Well done and happy baking
My friend got back to me and told me that Nutella is too sweet and made with preservative. I told her in that case, she will have to cook her own dark chocolate spread. There is just no pleasing I guess. I will my best on baking good bread and the rest is up to them :(
If am not wrong, Lucy is your family dog. My sister told me once that dogs can smile and laugh although I have not witnessed the latter. It looks like if Lucy was smiling for the camera? What a lovely pic!
Sandy
Your bread looks wonderful. I am going to have to start adding more seeds and nuts to my bread for variety.
Many years ago when my children were little, I was trying to make healthier cookies for them by adding more seeds and nuts to them. I found that they were less likely to notice them if I ground them up a bit. If your friend's daughter doesn't go for your yummy looking bread, maybe hide the seeds and nuts a bit by grinding them up into smaller pieces.
and I will do just that with my friend's green light. Have a great weekend there and Happy Baking too : )