ROUND II - Ciabatta Bread
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Artisan loaves! |
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Joan fighting with a very wet dough |
After a successful bake off last week at Joan's house, we decided to do the same at PTC. This week we tried Paul Hollywood's ciabatta bread. Now - he said that the dough has to be really wet and it very definitely WAS! He didn't tell us how we should handle it, he merely says use plenty of flour. As soon as we saw the large proportion of water we were very suspicious! Our suspicions were more than well founded! The dough was impossible to handle. Having dragged it onto baking trays and, after leaving it to prove for about 15 minutes, we popped it in the oven. Now Joan had had a very clever plan and baked 3 of her loaves on a baton tray which has 3 concave channels. It was just as well as the the dough was prevented from running. Luckily, my dough was not quite as runny and the loaves were baked flat.
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Quality control! |
Hey Presto! Perfect ciabatta bread! Joan is definitely a very bad influence as she nearly climbed into the oven to taste it. We ate half of one of her loaves on the spot and then Al ate most of a whole one with home made soup for lunch. We all agreed that it was also the perfect accompaniment to the home grown lemon marmalade. Both batches were equally good. In a word: RESULT!! See the
Bakers at Work!
Yes, I know this is a garden blog! Sometimes on a cold and dull winter's day, it's nice to get creative in the kitchen and I did arrange some flowers!
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3 for the freezer. |
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