In The Dough
The Albion bakery and cafe in London is now using Twitter to let customers know when fresh bread is available. Let’s just hope that Krispy Kreme doesn’t start doing this, or we’ll see even more expanding waistlines in the U.S.!
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When I decided to do play along with the folks doing the BBA Challenge there was one item in Peter Reinhart’s “Bread Baking Apprentice” that had me quivering in my apron. OK, maybe not. I don’t wear an apron… but the fact remains, the idea of homemade bagels scared me. Unfortunately the book is in [...]
There seem to be as many variations of Greek Celebration bread, or “Artos” as there are holidays, each with their own tradition and meaning in both when they are made and the symbology of their ingredients. For the second in the line of the Bread Baker’s Apprentice challenge I chose Christopsomos. My choice was based [...]
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Wallace and Gromit’s newest short film “A Matter of Loaf and Death” will be coming to North America in June. If you’re lucky enough to be a subscriber to AT&T’s U-verse you’ll be able to access it FREE for three days before anyone else. My husband loves Wallace and Gromit. I’m a fan, and I [...]
Read any number of baking forums that discuss baking sourdough bread and you might get the idea that keeping a sourdough starter is rather like keeping a pet. Granted, it takes far less care than a cat, and far more than a pet rock. A gold fish, perhaps. A gold fish that, inevitably, once you’ve [...]
I’d planned on joining Pinch My Salt’s BBA-Challenge. Unfortunatley I missed the cut-off date to join, but I’ve decided to play along at home anyway. The first bread in the book is “Anadama Bread.” Compared to many of the breads I’ve made using Reinhart’s books, this bread was quick and simple to make! The warm [...]
It seems, at times, that there’s as many ways of making bread as there are stars in the sky. Unleavened flat breads such as injera that seem to have a closer relationship to pancakes than bread, more dough-based flatbreads such as naan, roti, tortillas and the like, yeastless “quick” breads such as cornbread, commercial yeast-risen [...]