This is the next bread in line for the Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge. I haven’t had challah before, nor have I ever seen it. I knew that it was a Jewish traditional bread and a favourite of some Jewish friends, and I knew it was usually braided. And that’s the extent of my knowledge about …
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Baker’s Percentages and Bread Hydration
This gets to the science behind baking bread. If you can make an excellent loaf of bread that turns out exactly as you want it to without knowing anything about bread hydration and baker’s percentages, great! Me? Not so much. I started reading up on it preciesely because my bread wasn’t turning out the way …
Weight vs. Volume Measurements in Cooking
I always knew that the UK gallon and the US gallon were different. What I didn’t know – and should have – is that the US cup vs. the Canadian cup are different. Oh, sure, Canadians were an English colony, so of course our gallons were UK gallons, not US. And then I recently learned …
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