Baking with your truly (Her most magnificent magnanimous chef, Mayumi Ayer herself)
It's baking time!!!! Who's hungry? I am!!!
During these painful, hard, hungry times we need a little boost of strength! A friend of ours recently introduced us to sourdough bread! We don't really like sourdough bread, we think it is waaaaaaay to sour for our delicate tastes, lol
so we were not excited. But turns out it can be used a raising agent instead of a flavour, so understandably we were relieved! Sour dough is an excellent was of getting things to be puffy and bubbly!
How does it make the bread puffy and bubbly?
ReplyDeleteSourness is sometimes relative to appetite. On long sea crossings men used to eat hardtack. A rock-hard salty cracker that was pretty good when you were hungry. I bet sour would be pretty good if you were starving.
ReplyDeleteTry it, you'll like it! And if at first you don't, wait a while then try again. Sometimes the initial introduction was just what was needed to pave the way.
ReplyDeleteGrandma Tonie told me she only likes white (Japanese) rice. Can you imagine not enjoying paella, jambalaya, fried rice or even rice pudding?
There're so many tasty breads to tempt the palate. Sourdough & rye are a couple of my faves, but really, I love bread! I'm looking forward to tasting Yumi's special deliciousness. Keep up the good work!
I say give it time. There are things I didn't used to like that I like now. And one thing I didn't like was all because of misinformation! I used to think I didn't like ricotta. Then last month I gave it another try. Turns out my mom had always used cottage cheese in lasagna instead of ricotta. I had always thought that I didn't like ricotta! Now that I have actually had ricotta, I love it!
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