Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Bread

My bread in general has never been as bad as my pizza dough once was, and I've had successes in the past, but still. It could definitely be better.

The last few times especially I've been making overly dense bread, and I've been tending toward undercooking it. I think my problem is that most seminal of cooking problems. I'm rushing it.

So, in the tradition of my attempt to perfect pizza dough, I'm going to try to learn to make good bread.

Today was my first attempt in my new culinary undertaking. I made two loaves of plain homestyle white bread for sandwiches. In spite of all temptation, I refused to bake it until it was properly risen, and the result is unquestionably the best bread I've made in years.

Next—Braided poppyseed egg loaf.

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