![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeister[After I have toast in the morning, she licks the crumb-covered plate clean]
Today is Baking Day--I made a brioche dough last night from a recipe that assumed I own a Kitchen Aid. I'm sorry, dear recipe-makers, my only Kitchen Aids are my own two hands. So hopefully my substitutions of a wooden spoon and my hands will serve as adequate replacements for the dough hook. Some day perhaps I'll write a book called Cooking By Hand, because for me half of the fun is in the chopping, mixing, grating, or kneading. I think that making food should be a tactile experience--most mechanization doesn't really make the process that much easier (and I also don't like the huge pile of complicated dirty dishes that mechanical cooking produces; I am my father's daughter). In any event, I'll be baking the dough today.
I also made some crumpet dough because I got addicted to crumpets when I was in Australia. I finally found a cast-iron griddle that will fit over two burners on my stove so I can cook up large batches of things like crumpets. If either the crumpets or the brioche turn out well I'll be happy. I ended up mixing white flour and whole-wheat flour while I continue to try to figure out how to work with whole-wheat flour. It's an interesting, but difficult, challenge.
Today is Baking Day--I made a brioche dough last night from a recipe that assumed I own a Kitchen Aid. I'm sorry, dear recipe-makers, my only Kitchen Aids are my own two hands. So hopefully my substitutions of a wooden spoon and my hands will serve as adequate replacements for the dough hook. Some day perhaps I'll write a book called Cooking By Hand, because for me half of the fun is in the chopping, mixing, grating, or kneading. I think that making food should be a tactile experience--most mechanization doesn't really make the process that much easier (and I also don't like the huge pile of complicated dirty dishes that mechanical cooking produces; I am my father's daughter). In any event, I'll be baking the dough today.
I also made some crumpet dough because I got addicted to crumpets when I was in Australia. I finally found a cast-iron griddle that will fit over two burners on my stove so I can cook up large batches of things like crumpets. If either the crumpets or the brioche turn out well I'll be happy. I ended up mixing white flour and whole-wheat flour while I continue to try to figure out how to work with whole-wheat flour. It's an interesting, but difficult, challenge.
