Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Pan Laramiese 2

I am not sure if I got the proper durum flour for the Pugliese bread. But, it's late to do anything about it now. I mixed the dough with the biga at noon and stretch-folded it once, than twice more in the evening after I came home. Using the cheapo bench scraper really makes working with wet dough like this quite easy. Now it's rising while my dog is dry humping Sasha. Since she is that much smaller, it looks really weird, not mentioning they are both ex-girls. Fortunatelly it did not take long but I wonder if the vet took out everything. She loves to dry-hump my furry slippers after dinner as well.
I was looking up for high-altitude baking websites and found a blog similar to this one (and  which I cannot find again, of course) and it reminded me of the Julie and Julia blog. I thought about undergoing similar journey as Julie with Julia's cookbook, in my case with the Bread Bible from the great Jewess. But there are many recipes I already know I won't be able to get all the ingredients or equipment for.... and that would mean improvisation on a big part of the book... Plus, it would be a plain copying of someone else's idea. So, no. At least not now.
BTW, the dog snores.
The bread, after about 40 minutes of rising time, one can see how the dough spreads in the basket.


And another ninety minutes later or so:


and than to the hot hot oven and voila:

Smells really nice (which freshly baked bread does not, right?) and although it is flat, it also feels light and so I hope in a great texture. Can't wait till tomorrow.
BTW, Chompy stopped snoring in the meantime.

1 comment:

  1. happy you have so much fun with the bread bible book....i thought you would when i saw it :)
    wish i can taste the results ...i would have to try it myself i guess ..

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