Bakery updatery

[desperance]

We're going to a foie party tonight, to celebrate the end of prohibition.

Having failed entirely to lay my hands on foie (I was planning to buy some at the farmers' market - but of course we were away in Walnut Creek on Saturday for FogCon), I said I'd bake instead. I have mixed and plaited two duck's-egg brioches (hey, I can still remember how to plait! despite being fifty years from my childhood, and neither a sailor nor a girl) and made a horrendous mess of two mushroom-and-walnut loaves. Now I am skulking off to the clubhouse to lick my fingers wounds and do what work I can, while they rise a second time. They will, of course, both be ready together, despite my planning the opposite; so the abiding question is, do I bake the quick-and-hot brioches first, or the slow-and-cooler loaves?