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I did a bread lesson for a bunch of people. It turned in to a 14 hour bread party complete with fresh sourdough pizza with the Durum flour I got from Cerinthus' parents. It was absolutely fantastic.
Over the course of the day, we made 11 loaves and 8
pizzas: 2
whole wheat Tartine loaves (replacing 100g of all-purpose flour with 100g durum), 4 mini
Pain à l'Ancienne ciabatta loaves, 3
Norwich More-Sourdough loaves (with 50g added wheat germ), and 2 loaves of
Tartine country bread (with 100g durum wheat).
The loaves tasted amazing, and some of them looked fantastic. I taught my friends to mix, knead, shape, score, and bake loaves.
The first two loaves were not as aesthetic as I was hoping, but they tasted fantastic.
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A friend of mine bought some wonderful cheese which we had with the whole wheat loaves.
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The next set of loaves were the
Pain à L'Ancienne ciabatta. These loves went over like gang-busters. One of my friends is planning on making his own at home. I hope it works. The loaves were super bubbly and I taught one of my friends to gently shape the loaves.
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The loaves were really beautiful when they came out of the oven, but I had to make mini loaves so that they would fit in the oven.
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Next, I taught my friends to shape dough with the easy-to-shape fairly dry Norwich More-Sourdough. They did an amazing job.
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Other friends scored the loaves and they came out pretty well for everyone's first times.
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Next, we had some pizza.
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The next morning, the last loaves that the eight of us made came out of the oven. These were just phenomenal. Sadly, only Catullus II, my parents, and I were still around to see them.
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This last set of loaves may have been some of the best bread I have ever tasted. Yum!
This looks like a blast---I love the photos, I looked at all of them on flickr.
ReplyDeleteIt was fantastic, although absolutely insane because there were so many people. Trying to find tasks and teach 8 people at once is a huge challenge. Teaching just two of you was much easier and it also taught me what was important to mention and what I could leave out.
ReplyDeleteNext time you're around, I was thinking we should do a "Specialty Breads" lesson and do croissants and some stuff like that.