This past Tuesday I attended a sourdough class run by Aviv at
Sidewalk Citizen Bakery. I learned a lot and I'm going to start my own "mother" this weekend after I buy some fancier flours. We learned about starter, ingredients, and of course made some bread and pizza. Aviv was a pretty good teacher, stressing that we should experiment and familarize ourselves with the process and "formula" instead of focusing on baking times and recipes. I left the class with enough dough to bake 3 loaves of bread and a freshly baked loaf. I love bread, but I also live by myself and as much as I would love to devour 4 loaves of bread in one week, it's not physically possible. So I baked up my dough balls to varying degrees of success and delivered them to some friends.
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| Fresh Bread! |
The loaf to the left was ready to bake when we left class, but it "rested" in my fridge for 24hrs anyways because I wasn't going to be baking any midnight bread. It also turned out the best because I baked it in a covered dutch oven, and kept it on the top rack of my oven.
The other two loaves were baked on the bottom rack, and unfortunately got burned bottoms. It's a lesson learned... I also baked the middle one in a covered corning ware casserole dish, which was wee bit too small for it, since it pushed up the cover. That's why it looks a little squished. The loaf on the left was baked on a pan, uncovered. I thought it might burn, but it didn't, although it's crust was much thicker than the other two loaves.
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| Burned bottoms :( |
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| I also managed to burn myself on the oven door |
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| And for no reason at all, here's a picture of my dog sitting on a bench with some other dogs... she's the invisible thing in the middle with creepy eyes |
