It is back to basics for me this week, and I am not too old to learn new tricks. I have loved making bread for years and years, sometimes using a large table top mixer, but for nearly twenty years have gone back to the hand process, by far my favourite. I find the kneading most enjoyable.
As a treat to myself I joined Bake with Jack's 'The Homebaker's Club', I have been watching him on YouTube, and there is almost everything you need there to achieve as good a standard as you could attain. He has given much and he is a gifted communicator, so why not indulge myself in a little course available whenever I wish to log on?
This Sunday the weather was decidedly damp and wet, the bread bin nearly empty, as was the freezer of 'everyday' day bread. I thought I would get back to basics after all the sourdough bread, and watched and printed out the Wholemeal Cobb Loaf instructions.
I followed it and make the one large cobb. What would I do differently next time? Divide the dough in two, or use perhaps some of the dough to make some rolls, as this loaf is a little too large for us. A smaller loaf with extra for the freezer would suit us better. All in all a superb recipe different from the other he had shown, and with explanations and reasons for doing various manoeuvres, I have further techniques to try on other recipes.
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