Archive for November, 2009

Nov 15 2009

Potato Rosemary Bread, redux

Published by Paul under BBA Challenge, Yeast Breads

If you ever want to make your house smell absolutely awesome, make this bread. Even during the dough building process, this was absolutely wonderful. While baking, it’s to die for.
And that’s just the aroma.
This is my second run at this bread, the first happening a fair while back, before I got into the whole documenting [...]

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Nov 13 2009

How big is a cup?

How much does a cup of flour weigh?
Here’s a question that seems to pop up on a fairly regular basis in the bread forums. Someone sees a recipe that requires 3.5 cups of flour, or one that looks for 368g of flour. Either way, they’re used to the other method of measuring and they run [...]

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Nov 11 2009

Pizza Napoletana

Published by Paul under Sourdough Breads

Pizza! A regular treat for most North Americans, whether by the slice at the authentic Italian place or delivered from the mega chain outlet. Peter Reinhart gives us, for bread number 25 in The Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge, his version of Pizza Napoletana which he describes as a thin crust with, preferably less ingredients so [...]

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