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FINALLY finished baking Mom's bread for tomorrow. It took me three hours. It would have taken at least fifteen minutes less if I'd had our oven set up with another rack, but I suppose that's on me for not doing proper measurements beforehand.
It was my first attempt at making the lean dough recipe from school in over a year. Honestly, I thought it was going really well. I actually think the bread itself turned out okay (unlike the last time I tried it, when it ended up rock hard), though I don't know for certain without tasting it. The problem is that it has little to no color. I'm thoroughly disappointed in that. Not only does it look raw, it'll probably taste raw; that's flavor it's missing there! I could've done an egg wash, which not only would've given it more color but possibly a nice sheen as well, but it's originally a vegan bread and I wanted to keep it that way. (Flour, salt, yeast, water. Those are the only ingredients.) I'm not providing vegan hedgehogs, after all. Maybe I let it steam for too long? Or maybe I should just switch to the broiler part-way through?
Siiiiiiigh. It doesn't help that I got stuck sitting through a musical I had no interest in watching, unable to leave because the recipe I have is one of the "bake until done" sorts. It also really doesn't help that I've got a certain monthly-ish biological event hovering on the horizon. At least I've got a reasonable guess as to why the musical and the bread annoyed me so.
Highlight of my day: One of the other singers in the Quire is a fan of my crochet work and looks after a good many cats. I'd told her - and the rest of the Quire, actually, at her prompting - a few weeks ago about my recent NSFW crocheted cat toy, which she thought was great. This week she commissioned a pair of them from me. She needs them tomorrow for a bachelorette party, IIRC, so she came by this evening to pick them up. She was absolutely delighted with how they turned out, and the brief "tour" of their features I gave her. Many horrible jokes were shared.
It always cheers me up when someone likes my work :)
It was my first attempt at making the lean dough recipe from school in over a year. Honestly, I thought it was going really well. I actually think the bread itself turned out okay (unlike the last time I tried it, when it ended up rock hard), though I don't know for certain without tasting it. The problem is that it has little to no color. I'm thoroughly disappointed in that. Not only does it look raw, it'll probably taste raw; that's flavor it's missing there! I could've done an egg wash, which not only would've given it more color but possibly a nice sheen as well, but it's originally a vegan bread and I wanted to keep it that way. (Flour, salt, yeast, water. Those are the only ingredients.) I'm not providing vegan hedgehogs, after all. Maybe I let it steam for too long? Or maybe I should just switch to the broiler part-way through?
Siiiiiiigh. It doesn't help that I got stuck sitting through a musical I had no interest in watching, unable to leave because the recipe I have is one of the "bake until done" sorts. It also really doesn't help that I've got a certain monthly-ish biological event hovering on the horizon. At least I've got a reasonable guess as to why the musical and the bread annoyed me so.
Highlight of my day: One of the other singers in the Quire is a fan of my crochet work and looks after a good many cats. I'd told her - and the rest of the Quire, actually, at her prompting - a few weeks ago about my recent NSFW crocheted cat toy, which she thought was great. This week she commissioned a pair of them from me. She needs them tomorrow for a bachelorette party, IIRC, so she came by this evening to pick them up. She was absolutely delighted with how they turned out, and the brief "tour" of their features I gave her. Many horrible jokes were shared.
It always cheers me up when someone likes my work :)
