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Jul. 31st, 2003 02:49 pmi'm making pizza dough at the moment, and i thought i'd share with you a wonderful bit in rombauer-becker gods (aka the joy of cooking) about bread:
"If you have never made yeast bread, behold one of the great dramas of the kitchen. Every ingredient is a character. As a producer-director, assemble your cast. Yeast is the prima donna. Her volatile temperament is capable of exploitation only within given limits of heat - and does she resent a drafty dressing room! ... Wheat flour is the hero. He has a certain secret something that makes his personality elastic and gives convincing body to his performance. Rice, rye, corn, soy - no other flour can touch him for texture; but he is willing to share the stage with others - if they give him the limelight ... Water, milk or other liquids are the intriguers. Any one of them lends steam to the show ... As for salt and sugar, they make essential but brief entrances. Too much of either inhibits the range of the other actors. Fat you can enlist or leave. Use him to endow your performance with more tender and lasting appeal. There are quite a few extras, too, which you can ring in to give depth and variety. Allow some ad-libbing with nuts and raisins, herbs and sprouts ... Now, knowing our actors and their quality, "the play's the thing." Let's look into the types, the mixing and the baking of bread ..." (followed by regular instructions).
i love the joy of cooking.
"If you have never made yeast bread, behold one of the great dramas of the kitchen. Every ingredient is a character. As a producer-director, assemble your cast. Yeast is the prima donna. Her volatile temperament is capable of exploitation only within given limits of heat - and does she resent a drafty dressing room! ... Wheat flour is the hero. He has a certain secret something that makes his personality elastic and gives convincing body to his performance. Rice, rye, corn, soy - no other flour can touch him for texture; but he is willing to share the stage with others - if they give him the limelight ... Water, milk or other liquids are the intriguers. Any one of them lends steam to the show ... As for salt and sugar, they make essential but brief entrances. Too much of either inhibits the range of the other actors. Fat you can enlist or leave. Use him to endow your performance with more tender and lasting appeal. There are quite a few extras, too, which you can ring in to give depth and variety. Allow some ad-libbing with nuts and raisins, herbs and sprouts ... Now, knowing our actors and their quality, "the play's the thing." Let's look into the types, the mixing and the baking of bread ..." (followed by regular instructions).
i love the joy of cooking.
