Tag: baguette

  • Book Review – Knead to Know, the Real Bread Campaign

    This well designed book is subtitled, ‘The introductory guide to success in baking Real Bread for your local community’. How well does it fulfill its remit? How far along the line from interested or amateur baker to community purveyor of Real Bread can ‘Knead to Know’ take you? In my view, The Real Bread Campaign…

  • French baguette – high hydration bread

    I’ve been keen to make ‘proper’ french baguettes for years now. At last I’ve found recipes and techniques that work. There’s still room for improvement as I’m learning as I go. All ‘high hydration’ means is that there’s relatively more water in the dough than a lower hydration dough: ‘wetter’ doesn’t sound so glamorous. More…