Saturday, May 18, 2013

Party On...

Based on the state of the this blog it is entirely reasonable for you to assume that I have stopped making bread. You might even assume that I have "become bread", but I am not so sure that is all that reasonable of an assumption...

Anyway...I have been making bread about once a month or so, but did see the need to blog about it since I am pretty much at a plateau. I can make pretty good bread. I don't think I have achieved great yet, but I can definitely do pretty good. Good enough that even people that don't have to live with me say it is "really good". And I can do it without much fumbling around. I know how to do what I am doing, but it is time to get better...

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It is time to make bread that is not just "pretty good"...I want bread that is "I need more of this now good"...

I am not sure if I mentioned this before, but when I started making bread I wanted to make it as simple as possible. I knew that bread could be made with just a few ingredients, but wasn't 100% sure until I start looking for recipes. It turned out it wasn't all that easy to track down these simple recipes online, but eventually I figured it out. I think the first bread I made had 5 ingredients...flour, water, salt, sugar and yeast. The bread I am making now doesn't use any sugar. There is enough "sugar" in the flour to make the yeast happy so the only reason that recipe would have had it was to speed things up a bit, and speeding things up is only good for making "bread"...not good for making "good bread".

But I digress...flour, water, salt, yeast...that is all you need to make bread. The book I have learned from is great, but it is a book about making all kinds of bread, so there are only a handful of recipes in the book that make the kind of bread I want to make. Then about 6 months ago I heard about another book...a book I knew that I needed to have just from seeing the title...Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza


So a couple of weeks ago when I came into some "amazon money", I jumped on finally order the book. And after reading through the first few chapters it seems like it should be just what I need to go from pretty good to at least "almost great"...







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