Also for science (I am reminded)
Sep. 20th, 2012 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceThat's what I wanted to tell you about: the bread!
I was fascinated by the various commenters, who all make their sourdough in completely different ways tho' it's presumably the same scientific process that's occurrin'.
Anyway, my shockingly over-riz dough did more or less what people were predicting: it stood very high in its proving-basket and then more or less collapsed when I turned it onto the peel [side-note: I love my peel! I wasn't sure beforehand, I thought maybe I was just Playing Baker, but it's been astonishingly useful in fact; I cannot conceive of a better way to get the loaf onto the baking stone in the oven]. It had developed a fairly dry and leathery skin overnight, where it had lain against the floured cloth; and it didn't develop as much oven spring as I expect from this process. So, yup: it's a fairly flat and disappointing loaf, at least to look at. Tastes fine, mind. If it's more sour than normal (which I was pretty much expecting), it's only a little bit so, and that may be wishful thinking.
I was fascinated by the various commenters, who all make their sourdough in completely different ways tho' it's presumably the same scientific process that's occurrin'.
Anyway, my shockingly over-riz dough did more or less what people were predicting: it stood very high in its proving-basket and then more or less collapsed when I turned it onto the peel [side-note: I love my peel! I wasn't sure beforehand, I thought maybe I was just Playing Baker, but it's been astonishingly useful in fact; I cannot conceive of a better way to get the loaf onto the baking stone in the oven]. It had developed a fairly dry and leathery skin overnight, where it had lain against the floured cloth; and it didn't develop as much oven spring as I expect from this process. So, yup: it's a fairly flat and disappointing loaf, at least to look at. Tastes fine, mind. If it's more sour than normal (which I was pretty much expecting), it's only a little bit so, and that may be wishful thinking.