In week #25 of the Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge we make pizza. When I first bought this book, in May, I was flipping through it, looking at the pictures. My heart skipped a beat when I got to page 208 and saw our bread guru, Peter Reinhart, tossing pizza dough in the air. I have [...]
Archive for November, 2009
#25. Holy Pizza!
Posted in Bread Bakers Apprentice Challenge, tagged Cheese, pizza on November 17, 2009 | 12 Comments »
#24. A very expensive Panettone.
Posted in Bread Bakers Apprentice Challenge on November 15, 2009 | 13 Comments »
In week 24 of the Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge, we prepare the Italian Christmas bread known as panettone. I have never made or eaten panettone before so I really had no frame of reference on this one. As I read through the ingredient list I told myself to keep an open mind. However, I [...]
#23. Pane Siciliano and lessons about yeast relearned!
Posted in Bread Bakers Apprentice Challenge on November 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
You would think that after baking bread for the past 22 weeks, I would have learned a thing or two about the properties of yeast. Specifically, that yeast causes bread dough to rise and expand. Somehow I forgot this lesson when making Pane Siciliano, the 23rd bread in the Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge. Pane Siciliano is an [...]
