So recently I have become infatuated with bread. There is a little restaurant in my home town (Rockland Maine) called Cafe Miranda that makes the most amazing flat bread. I am not sure if it focaccia, or some other type but it is really "tuggy" You need to grab ahold of it and really pull to get a bite. It is amazing when dipped in olive oil and balsamic. Does this sound like focaccia to you? What other really really chewy flat breads are out there? I need to find some way to make something similar! I don't have a wood fired brick oven... so I know I can't get it exact.
So.... I thought to myself "I want to make bread" so I went and bought The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Reinhart. Well I tried making his pizza dough recipe and everything seemed to be going ok until this step....
I was told to flatten each dough ball into a 5 inch circle and let rest on the counter for two hours.
Well... when I tried to pick the dough up after two hours it was IMPOSSIBLE to form it wasn't elastic enough and sort of ran, or stretched as soon as I picked it up. I couldnt turn it fast enough to make a circle it was just a nightmare. Do you think that perhaps the dough was too wet? I think I really need to get an electric mixer and a digital scale to make really excellent bread, but I am just a poor student.
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So.... I thought to myself "I want to make bread" so I went and bought The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Reinhart. Well I tried making his pizza dough recipe and everything seemed to be going ok until this step....
I was told to flatten each dough ball into a 5 inch circle and let rest on the counter for two hours.
Well... when I tried to pick the dough up after two hours it was IMPOSSIBLE to form it wasn't elastic enough and sort of ran, or stretched as soon as I picked it up. I couldnt turn it fast enough to make a circle it was just a nightmare. Do you think that perhaps the dough was too wet? I think I really need to get an electric mixer and a digital scale to make really excellent bread, but I am just a poor student.
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