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selkie at 08:39am on 15/02/2008
selkie at 08:39am on 15/02/2008N took me to this bakery this morning and they had the HUGE KILO WHEELS of Poilane-style levain bread and they sold me a quarter and I AM EATING IT.
Makes up for the fact that the person who was supposed to be here at 8:30, for whom I hustled my pain au chocolat, is not here yet. It's OKAY. I have BREAD.
Bread with crust, and flavor. And wheatiness and a slight mineral tang and a scent of yeast and salt.
We also got an organic challah, but somehow N got custody of it. I hope there's any left :P
Clearly I will have to bake tomorrow. It's a sign!
...There was also a box of mystery beef (the good kind) on our front step last night. Nothing says happy Valentine's day like meat...
We'd have brought it to the person to whom it was addressed, but it was addressed to our house. It ARRIVED properly...
Makes up for the fact that the person who was supposed to be here at 8:30, for whom I hustled my pain au chocolat, is not here yet. It's OKAY. I have BREAD.
Bread with crust, and flavor. And wheatiness and a slight mineral tang and a scent of yeast and salt.
We also got an organic challah, but somehow N got custody of it. I hope there's any left :P
Clearly I will have to bake tomorrow. It's a sign!
...There was also a box of mystery beef (the good kind) on our front step last night. Nothing says happy Valentine's day like meat...
We'd have brought it to the person to whom it was addressed, but it was addressed to our house. It ARRIVED properly...
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Our oven, bless it, is a Tappan range from the late 70's that someone got at a restaurant supply and stuck in our condo when it was built, as far as I can tell. It cranks out the BTUs and goes up to 600... and that's just when the dial stops having marks. So. Yes. Very lucky.
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Yes, it was the Reinhart recipe with the optional half whole, half white co-out. I didn't have a sifter fine enough to separate bran from flour. That was the loaf that led my mom to compare my breads to sand mandalas (meaning, in this case, works of art whose purpose is found in their destruction).
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