Breadstuff

[desperance]

I have ciabatta rising as I type. My second attempt: and rather to my surprise, I find this is a different recipe. I discovered this by, y'know, actually reading the recipe rather than just the ingredients list (eventually, once the dough was mixed and proving for the first time), and finding that it has a whole extra proving stage (even excluding the biga, the starter sponge that rises overnight), for which I had failed to budget the time. It needs to be risen and turned, risen and shaped, risen and prodded and then risen again; which will put lunch back to mid-afternoon. Oh, the hunger...

Speaking of Our Laddies of Perpetual Hunger, we have established to nobody's surprise that while both boys were deeply interested in what I was doing, Mac was the one who was serious about eating raw yeasty bread dough. Om nom nom.