My first loaf of bread from the master recipe in Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day came out small but delicious and perfect. A slice of it + some homemade butter and a sprinkle of grey celtic sea salt just made the perfect snack. If only I had a triple latte to go with it…
Even with having done a few things wrong the bread came out well. I forgot to test the oven temperature and to put the steam tray in while the oven was pre-heating and also to time how long the bread was in the oven. I just went by color of the crust. It could have stayed in probably 5 minutes longer because if I were to complain about the bread at all it might be to say the crumb was a tad on the moist side.
Speaking of Louisa May Alcott, I have often been obsessed with her and when in school wrote many papers, etc. about her. But I’ve never read any of her really hard to find books UNTIL NOW. When I can get them for free on the internet and on my amazon kindle. KACHOW, baby.
I’m about to read Pauline’s Passion and Punishment available now on Project Gutenberg.
Behold the first paragraph,
“To and fro, like a wild creature in its cage, paced that handsome woman, with bent head, locked hands, and restless steps. Some mental storm, swift and sudden as a tempest of the tropics, had swept over her and left its marks behind. As if in anger at the beauty now proved powerless, all ornaments had been flung away, yet still it shone undimmed, and filled her with a passionate regret. A jewel glittered at her feet, leaving the lace rent to shreds on the indignant bosom that had worn it; the wreaths of hair that had crowned her with a woman’s most womanly adornment fell disordered upon shoulders that gleamed the fairer for the scarlet of the pomegranate flowers clinging to the bright meshes that had imprisoned them an hour ago; and over the face, once so affluent in youthful bloom, a stern pallor had fallen like a blight, for pride was slowly conquering passion, and despair had murdered hope.”
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so do you use a baking stone?
December 20th, 2009 at 4:07 am
I did use a baking stone although they say you don’t have to. You could use a cookie sheet or a bread pan instead it will just make the crust come out a bit different.
December 20th, 2009 at 2:18 pm