Our passion is great bread!
The bread of the month for the Artisan Bread Bakers FB group is Pain Cordon de Bourgogne, or French Bread with a Twist. The twist goes right down the middle of the bread; there is no slashing involved. I shaped my bread into a round loaf instead of a batard (oval loaf) so that I could bake it in a ceramic bread cloche. The twist
Take a gallon of fine flour, and a pint of good new ale barm or yeast, and put it to the flour, with the whites of six new laid eggs well beaten in a dish … Robert May, The Accomplisht Cook, 1685 (first published 1660) The challenge for the Bread Baking Babes this month was to make Robert May’s ‘French Bread the best way’ from
A beautiful Bradford Pear tree stood next to the cherry tree in my front yard. Over time, it grew and expanded until it’s branches spread so wide, it could hardly contain itself. Season after season, the tree adorned my yard with splendor and provided a beautiful backdrop to an otherwise boring yard. The colors of the leaves were breathtaking in Autumn and the blossoms in
