Addie
Chef Extraordinaire
Four ingredients, Addie: Flour, water, salt, and yeast.
Thank you. I forgot the yeast. Another senior moment.
Four ingredients, Addie: Flour, water, salt, and yeast.
Unlike baguettes, which are made from a very slack dough, no special pan is necessary to make hogie buns.
As to shrinkage, that just means the dough isn't relaxed enough. Let it sit for a few minutes and try rolling again.
How slack is slack, niquejim? And what's your reasoning?
Baguettes typically run 80-83% moisture, which is, indeed, a very slack dough. Which is why they're done in those special pans; the dough is too slack to be free standing. Faccacia runs about the same, and I'd like to see anybody make a free-standing bread from a Faccacia dough.
We call them heroes.are you in northern or western ny, pigskin?
the reason i ask is that in southwestern ny, the bread/sandwiches that you referrred to are known as heroes or even baguettes, french or italian loafs, or portugese rolls.
subs also, but less commonly, and then there's hoagies or grinders.
YOU HIT it on the head!! That soft, squishy, fat (white bread shaped) sliced loaf stuff IS NOT Italian bread. Italian bread is a long slightly chubby loaf of bread with substance and crunch. Or round and crusty (pompei style loaf with a white dusting of flour on the top). Just rip and dip!!I live in a city where Italian bread and sub rolls are baked and sold for Italians and sold in paper bags. They are unsliced. Then there is Italian bread and sub rolls sold in plastic bags with tie twists and printing on the outside. They are sliced. Including the rolls. Those are for non-Italians who think they are getting the real thing.
Now I realize that not everyone lives within a distance where they can get the real thing. But if it is sliced, you are not getting the real thing. Italian breads have a hard crust and a slit down middle made before it goes in the oven. Every Italian family I have ever known, tears pieces of the loaf off at the table. Too bad I don't like white bread. Italian bread always smells so heavenly.
heya mofet, where ya been?
oops, i meant to say southeastern ny (nyc) and that includes the northern half of new jersey.
Heya back atcha bucks!!
Working "long term" temporary part time job. Which basically means I have no clue when my butt will be outta work!! LOL Second shift 4 - 10 PM. Close to home, only takes about 10 minutes coming home on rt 17 doing the limit (probably 3 @ 60! LOL) at that time, takes a bit long going to work at 4 PM. Cool. BUT it kinda puts a crimp in my cooking and pic taking. LOL
We call them heroes.
YOU HIT it on the head!! That soft, squishy, fat (white bread shaped) sliced loaf stuff IS NOT Italian bread. Italian bread is a long slightly chubby loaf of bread with substance and crunch. Or round and crusty (pompei style loaf with a white dusting of flour on the top). Just rip and dip!!
Don't need to preach to me. I am Italian. LOL Mom would be at the door of the Italian bakery at 4 AM to get hot loaves right out of the ovens. YUMMYOn real Italian bread you should be able to knock on the crust and not have it break or crack. And the inside is soft for dippiing. Wiping up that gravy after all the pasta is gone. Dipping into a dish of olive oil with parm cheese. And Italians do not put butter on their bread.
Don't need to preach to me. I am Italian. LOL Mom would be at the door of the Italian bakery at 4 AM to get hot loaves right out of the ovens. YUMMY
yummybeen there, done that with a clean dish towel to wrap the loaf in.
Don't need to preach to me. I am Italian. LOL Mom would be at the door of the Italian bakery at 4 AM to get hot loaves right out of the ovens. YUMMY
Been there, done that with a clean dish towel to wrap the loaf in.
And to think...I used to be on the other side of that door to hand it off.
You silly girl. You have no idea what you were missing. If you can't be Italian, then live in an Italian neigborhood. Your equator would be twice as wide.
How slack is slack, niquejim? And what's your reasoning?
Baguettes typically run 80-83% moisture, which is, indeed, a very slack dough. Which is why they're done in those special pans; the dough is too slack to be free standing. Faccacia runs about the same, and I'd like to see anybody make a free-standing bread from a Faccacia dough.
I make some pretty good hoagie buns with the Pain de Campagn dough, which runs 63%. Generic "French" bread typically runs in the 65% area, and Italian is even stiffer, at only 57-59%. Both these dough types are used to make hoagie buns as well, by commercial bakers as well as those working at home. See, for instance, Addie's comments above.
Slack doughs are especially useful for breads that have a very open crumb, with large and small holes randomly occurring. That, along with the crust, is pretty much what defines baguettes. But hoagie buns are, at base, sandwich bread. And for those you want a tighter, more consistent crumb.
I would say, too, that great tasting bread is less a function of moisture content, per se, and more a result of using things like preferments and retarded fermentation.
I'm not saying that moisture levels are unimportant. But to state that you must have a very slack dough to produce great rolls overstates the case at best.