April 30, the beginning of my 'weekend'.
Last night, after getting off work, I put together a biga. I looked at my little notebook, where I've been recording the details of each batch. I carelessly stopped at the most recent page that said 'biga' and measured out the flour, water and yeast listed there. There were actually three column of figures; I assumed the right hand column was the biga.
Wrong.
Now I'm going to have to back calculate to figure out how to create a dough of some sort out of this biga. This morning when I thumbed through the book, having had my doubts about what I had done, I found a more detailed notation about the proportions for the biga. I used way too much flour for two loaves.
I had bumped into Rosemary and Richard after work on Friday. They prattled on, as they do, and a lot of it was about the impossibility of getting good thick heavy whole-wheat bread here. I said I would make them a loaf. I felt challenged at the reference to 'thick and heavy' in the same sentence as 'whole wheat'. Supposedly at the King Arthur class I took with Ruth back in 2009 I learned how to overcome that characteristic.
But first, clean house!!
Last night, after getting off work, I put together a biga. I looked at my little notebook, where I've been recording the details of each batch. I carelessly stopped at the most recent page that said 'biga' and measured out the flour, water and yeast listed there. There were actually three column of figures; I assumed the right hand column was the biga.
Wrong.
Now I'm going to have to back calculate to figure out how to create a dough of some sort out of this biga. This morning when I thumbed through the book, having had my doubts about what I had done, I found a more detailed notation about the proportions for the biga. I used way too much flour for two loaves.
I had bumped into Rosemary and Richard after work on Friday. They prattled on, as they do, and a lot of it was about the impossibility of getting good thick heavy whole-wheat bread here. I said I would make them a loaf. I felt challenged at the reference to 'thick and heavy' in the same sentence as 'whole wheat'. Supposedly at the King Arthur class I took with Ruth back in 2009 I learned how to overcome that characteristic.
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