The loaf did not rise and I want to be honest about it rather than posting the one good slice at an angle.
I know what happened. The kitchen was cold, I did not give it the extra hour it was clearly asking for, and I baked it because I wanted to eat at eight rather than at nine. All three of those were decisions. None of them were mistakes exactly. I just…
A short list of things that improved my cooking more than any recipe:
One pan that gets properly hot and stays hot
Salt in a bowl, not in a grinder, so you can feel how much you are using
Reading the whole method before starting, which I still only do about half the time…
Made a cake on a Tuesday for no occasion and got asked three times what it was for.
It was for Tuesday. It is for eating. There does not need to be a birthday attached.
I do understand the question. A whole cake is a lot of cake for one person and the social form of a cake is that it arrives at something. But I think…
Confession: I killed the starter in March and never said anything.
Everyone was very invested in it. It had a name. People asked after it. And then I went away for ten days, came back to something grey and beyond reasoning with, and could not face announcing it, so I just quietly stopped mentioning bread for a month.
Sta…
