On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 19:12:15 -0600, graham > wrote:

>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:-)

Lol - it's amazing what it takes to fill them up