Sun Dec 6 19:32:07 EST 2009
BREAD!
For my birthday, Alice bought me a cool book – “Artisan Bread on 5 Minutes a Day”.
Today I gave it a try. In Chapter 3 there’s the recipe. Painfully simple. Flour, water, salt and yeast. You make a very wet dough in a big bucket (no kneading – just stirring.) You make a lot. Then you can pull dough off to bake any day you like for up to about 10 days (or until it runs out). There’s a side-bar with a handy way to impress your friends – “6, 3, 3, 13”. Six cups water, three tablespoons salt, three table spoons yeast, 13 cups flour (which is almost a 5 lb bag). There’s also a note I think – something about a 10 quart bucket.
I ignored this part – the 10 quart bucket part. Or maybe forgot about it. My bucket is 6 quarts. Turns out, this is not enough!
As you can see, what I created was an explosive tub of dough capable of flattening an entire city block. Well, maybe I exaggerate here, but enough to make a BIG bang when I pealed off the top. It was really scary.
None-the-less, this evening we produced our first loaf of bread. Look at this!!!