My wife's Yorkshire Pudding. So good.
They're awesome. She makes them every Christmas but really she ought to make them every week. They are the best pastry I've ever had.
rd95 and I made rye bread. This was our first time making a bread with yeast. I was hungry and gave that sucker no time to cool before chowing it with rosemary and garlic oil and minestrone soup. Bread smelled amazing while baking but if we make it again we will double the amount of caraway seeds that the recipe called for.
Now that I've had time to think about it, maybe one and a half times the caraway seeds. Too much and it can quickly become an overwhelming flavor. That said, I liked our idea of trying to make a rye soda bread. Something about that just seems easier. . . . we need to learn how to make naan while we're at it.
http://imgur.com/a/8t16s Turned out pretty well this week, no over proof. But the sponge is still sticky, don't know how to fix that.
I'll try to add to future. Question: so any of you have success with making bread dough by the feel of the dough instead of precise measurements? I can't seem to correlate dough texture to the resulting bread in my mind. My bread is all over the place quality-wise.
I figured Friday night would be a good time to start this, since it seems like the weekend is likely baking time. My bread has been in a sad flat rut lately, so I'm trying to re-base myself on Julia Child's french bread recipe from Vol 2 of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Same general process and ratios, but I'm using my sourdough starter instead of commercial yeast. I started a sponge tonight for it. We shall see.
I'll hopefully have some photos later today. Reinstalling my computer as I managed to generally bork things up. How do y'all handle your final rises? I do it on a towel and then transfer to a baking sheet, but I didn't flour my towel well enough yesterday... mussed up my loaf when I had to resort to peeling it off. :(
Micheal Pollan has a bit where he talks about how you can tell a bread is good because it makes your mouth water (as opposed to Wonder Bread, which makes you want to take a sip of something.) By that standard, I wouldn't say it left my mouth wet, but it wasn't dry either.