Biking, running and breadmaking
Jun. 13th, 2010 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylThis morning's bike and run should have been short and easy. Instead, it felt like a total slog. I blame over training — too much swimming, I suspect. To compensate for such a poor start to Sunday, I spent most of the rest of the day pottering around, listening to the radio and trying out a few new things in the kitchen.
One of the recipes I tried was Felicity Cloake's perfect wholemeal bread, which produced an unexpectedly good and wonderfully light loaf with very little in the way of hassle.
I'm not quite sure why the bread came out so much lighter than my last batch of homemade, which was so heave it could have been used as a doorstop. Perhaps it was the vitamin C table. Or maybe it was minimalist kneading, as recommended by Dan Lepard. Or maybe it was simply because, after reading an old article on the science of breadmaking by Andy Connelly, I finally realised how kneading actually worked as was able to modify my technique accordingly. Whatever it was, I liked it and enjoyed it and I no longer feel my lack of a bread maker nearly as acutely as I did just this morning.
One of the recipes I tried was Felicity Cloake's perfect wholemeal bread, which produced an unexpectedly good and wonderfully light loaf with very little in the way of hassle.
I'm not quite sure why the bread came out so much lighter than my last batch of homemade, which was so heave it could have been used as a doorstop. Perhaps it was the vitamin C table. Or maybe it was minimalist kneading, as recommended by Dan Lepard. Or maybe it was simply because, after reading an old article on the science of breadmaking by Andy Connelly, I finally realised how kneading actually worked as was able to modify my technique accordingly. Whatever it was, I liked it and enjoyed it and I no longer feel my lack of a bread maker nearly as acutely as I did just this morning.
