2005: A Bread Retrospective

You got it! Another bread entry. In my one and only entry on this topic, I was waxing poetic about My New Hobby, and showed the breads I had been able to produce. That was about early August, last year. For the last one-third of the year, I have been hard at work baking bread and learning more and more about it. Vin no longer buys any bread, and I have experimented with a variety of breads in my bread book. This entry shows a selection of the different breads that I baked August through December of 2005. First off, my guide in the bread experiments, my bread book: [[image:bread19b.jpg:My Big-ass Bread Book:center:0]] Here are my Onion Twists. Onion Twist after being twisted but prior to rising: [[image:bread20.jpg:Before rising:center:0]] After the loaves rose: [[image:bread21.jpg:After rising:center:0]] Baked, with a dinner fork next to it for some perspective: [[image:bread22.jpg:Onion Twist, Baked:center:0]] Challah […]

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