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Re:I told a cat food company how much they’d save by using t... by samizdis on Saturday February 06, 2021 @01:07PM (#26048448)
> As a bachelor I virtually make all my own bread

I so wish that the status of bachelor automatically bestowed the gift of being a baker. Sadly, in my case, it has not done so. I've tried to make all kinds of breads, from flatbreads to sourdoughs to leavened and unleavened to soda breads - all sorts. I would wish consumption of my output on only my worst enemies.

Happily, though, I can buy packets of bread mix in the supermarket and put them in a bread-making machine.

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Re:I told a cat food company how much they’d save by using t... by teach on Saturday February 06, 2021 @02:22PM (#26049072)
You should check out The Tassajara Bread Book by Edward Espe Brown; it's a masterwork of clear technical writing. The first basic recipe is expanded over 20+ pages, explaining not only what to do but _why_.
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Re:I told a cat food company how much they’d save by using t... by samizdis on Saturday February 06, 2021 @03:04PM (#26049442)
OK, I will do that, thank you. I'm a fan of Cooking for Engineers, and particularly like the schematics. Scroll to the bottom of this recipe to see what I mean:

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/36/Meat-Lasagna

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Re:I told a cat food company how much they’d save by using t... by siver_john on Saturday February 06, 2021 @04:21PM (#26050055)
I honestly only did it because I was cheap and I wanted to remake a sandwich I had consumed before. I started with a simple foccacia recipe and went from there. But I started baking with my mother years earlier so I had some experience.

I now for better or worse have the Toll House cookie recipe memorized, but I'm terrible at making baked goods look appealing.

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Re:I told a cat food company how much they’d save by using t... by Lukas_Skywalker on Saturday February 06, 2021 @03:27PM (#26049637)
For an easy and delicious recipe, try Andy Jones' "quarantine bread" [1]. I was rarely baking bread before, but this recipe changed that completely. As he mentions, it is really really hard to mess up. I once put it in the oven without folding. Thought that this was irrecoverable. It wasn't. Turned out great.

[1] https://andyljones.com/posts/bread.html

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