Sunday, November 20, 2011

The Smell of Bread in the Morning

Early-Morning Bread
I got up early to bake bread this morning, so Servia woke up to the smell of  a crust caramelizing on a (mostly) whole wheat loaf. I went back to sleep while the oven was heating, but after I put the bread in, I drank a cup of tea and went over my Greek flash cards.
Crust
The reason that I got up so early to bake bread was that I went to my morning step-aerobics class at the gym. It's been a couple weeks, as I had a cold, and so I was really out of shape. As tiring as it was, I came back to a wonderful loaf of healthy-ish bread that tasted heavenly and the crazy dance moves and hundred or so sit-ups didn't seem so bad.
Post-Workout Snack
I think this is the most open crumb of all of my attempts at the Tartine Whole Wheat Country loaf. It's not like the one posted by txfarmer,  but I think that is partially due to my shaping/scoring difficulties. Although I've been baking bread for almost two full years now, I'm still a neophyte.

3 comments:

  1. This looks perfect to me. I love the early morning, but I'm guessing it would be even better accompanied by the smell of this bread. Lucky Servia!

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  2. The bread did smell (and taste) amazing. The whole wheat breads smell especially good...I am not sure about the reason behind that. I might even be converted into a morning person if I were able to bake bread more regularly in the mornings, but the three of us can only assume a certain amount of bread per week and I have lots of school work, which sadly prevent me from this.

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  3. 'though lacking sufficient sleep, that glorious scent promised an exquisite, warm loaf and made my morning surprisingly delightful!
    ~S~

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