Basic hearth bread

Well, I added less water this time to make a less sticktastic dough, and indeed the dough was eminently reasonable. Something weird happened in the oven, though, and apparently I accidentally turned off the over -- or something? -- because when I went to reduce the temperature, it had to preheat all over again. Egads. So it cooked and cooked and the insides reached the right temperature but the thermometer wouldn't come out clean.

Well, eventually I said enough was enough and called it done.

Apparently I also forgot, once again, to add salt before mixing it. Such a tiny part of the recipe, and I've forgotten it twice now (and added it too early the first time). And, indeed, the bread tastes a bit weird because of it -- a bit watery, like a water cracker. It's not necessarily bad, but it's weird.

We'll see if the handsome sticky loaf came out tasting the same way.

The crust is pretty nice, though! Gnaw, gnaw!

Posted by chris at September 22, 2004 02:03 PM