Posts by siduri

Thanks BDL.  That's useful.  While I'm not looking for "light and airy" but rather "chewy and holey",  i imagine this is equally applicable.  I want to get the feel of bread as it used to be sold here, and is no...

This would be the first rise, in the bowl you mix it in.  You mix it in the bowl, just so all the flour has gotten wet, then let it sit (i stick the whole bowl in a plastic bag) and after 18-24 hours i form it (usually what i do...

Quote: Originally Posted by petalsandcoco  Minimizing Damage It isn't simply the presence of ethylene gas that causes rust on lettuce; it is damage to the lettuce itself. This may occur during harvest, handling and...

Quote: Originally Posted by Pollopicu  This doesn't really answer your question, but I'm assuming the purpose of your inquiry is to find a method that doesn't turn lettuce brown. Last year I purchased this...

serrations?  as in serrated knife?  i don;t use a serrated knife

This has probably come up before, but i'm probably older than most of you and have the prerogative of forgetting or telling old stories over and over I never got that thing about not cutting lettuce with a knife.  Supposedly...

What kind of subversive dreams are you having Koukou?!?    I wish our romaine lettuce were more crispy - it's very hard to find the crispy kind here, it's all large flattish leaves that are almost as soft as boston...

Glad you like our hijacks and diversions.  I don;t know about ratios, but if you want to do the poke test, either wet your finger first, and it shouldn't stick, or flour it very well - probably if the dough is so wet, i'd wet...

As a home cook, this may not be relevant -  I watched julia child as a teenager and learned how to chop (the first one below) and maybe picked something up from the galloping gourmet and extrapolated from there:   for...

It might be more like italian 00 flour then.  But i can't say for sure.  They also sell a bread flour here recently, called "manitoba" which i presume is a harder (winter) wheat.  Italian wheat is harvested in june, so i...