On 2018-10-25 5:05 PM, wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:02:49 -0600, graham > wrote:
>
>> On 2018-10-25 3:48 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>> On Thu 25 Oct 2018 01:13:02p, graham told us...
>>>
>>>> I decided to have a baking session yesterday. I had discovered
>>>> that my sourdough levain had gone really dormant and it took a few
>>>> feedings to get it up to strength. I then made a poolish with all
>>>> the water and half of the flour with some of the levain and left
>>>> it overnight. I made the dough in the morning and while it was
>>>> proofing, I went to the store to get the ingredients for some
>>>> chocolate-pistachio-cranberry muffins. In the relatively short
>>>> time I was out, the dough almost tripled in volume indicating a
>>>> now healthy levain. I made 3 loaves:
>>>>
>>>> https://postimg.cc/qgxgvMmV
>>>
>>> The bread looks yummy! Pefect loaves!
>>>
>>>> Then I made the muffins following a recipe from the British
>>>> Bake-Off competition. I followed the recipe very carefully. $7
>>>> worth of pistachios and about $11 worth of chocolate in the mix
>>>> and another ~$7 worth in the ganache!! The cupcakes were a bit dry
>>>> and it took much more chocolate to get the ganache to a setting
>>>> consistency. The results were unimpressive. However, I'm sure my
>>>> grandson and granddaughter will soon polish them off.
>>>> I shan't make that recipe again.
>>>> Graham
>>>>
>>>
>>> It is disappointing when a delicious recipes doesn't come off as
>>> expected. Thwy sounded delicious.
>>>
>>>
>> They are delicious but not as much as they should be. Grandson texted me
>> to say the ganash is great.
>
> Sheesh, that's not one of those twins texting already???
>
No! My 14yr old who has hollow legs:-)