Cold kitchen...
How is it that you start the day thinking you have plenty of time to bake your bread before leaving for a class tonight, but end up with a brick because your bread takes 4 times as long to rise? I knew I should have put the dough into the fridge and done all my baking tomorrow, came so close to doing it too. The first rise took 4 hours, and the second after shaping took 2 hours and I finally decided it was done because I knew it needed to cook before I left. I wsa forced to put the loaf in my clay baker into the oven first because it is supposed to be started in a cold oven. My kaiser rolls turned out a lot better, due to having a warm kitchen from baking and having an extra hour to rise. I am so glad that there will always be another loaf next week, but meanwhile I will cut into the loaf tomorrow and find out just how dense it is. Looked so promising too..... if I had just put it into the fridge!
Joanne