It’s time for a new bread, a new way of doing things. I’ve long resisted switching to folding dough instead of kneading because…why exactly? Maybe I thought kneading was a necessary primal step in creating bread, something to do with…
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Bread Batter
[flickr video=5506769039] It’s mesmerizing, isn’t it? Can you imagine what’s being whipped around in the mixer? Pancake batter? Icing for a cake? Nope. Bread dough. This is the ultra-high hydration olive oil brioche from the book Tartine Bread. I mixed…
Fear Not, Bakers
Heat is a good thing. We like it when we put our palms to the fire after coming in from the wind-whipped snow. We like it when we blow on a spoonful of split pea soup with ham before gulping…
