Hey Everyone! Okay another catch up blog post!

So friday we got to play with play dough! yes i know that sounds ridicolous but it was actually very helpful. We learned how to do a two braid for out challah bread. So using the play dough was way better than having to play around with our dough.

So you can see that we are only using two strands, they are different colors to we could learn better. And then the end product :)

Then i actually did it with dough! Didnt turn out too bad. although it could have been not as stretched out. But thats the point of learning, you dont do things perfectly everytime

So here it is after baking. and you can see how it could be more taller instead of length ways.

That day we also did Ciabatta ( i loved eating this one! Made excellent garlic bread!)

This next one was very interesting to me. I have never seen bread like this before. Reminded more cracker like. It is the armenian/lavash. was very tasty but reminded me more of a cracker instead of bread

See what i mean about more cracker like? And i dont have a picture of the whole thing as there was a bus mishap. Some drunken lady, cuz it was a friday and around 9 or later , fell on me and cracked it :(

The last type we did that day was Naan bread. This had an interesting way of baking it. You take your bread and put it right on the bottom of the oven. No pan or parchment paper.

 Then weekend which was nice! got caught up on notes and just studied.

I did go down to the beach one night, the water was so still and the city light reflection was beautiul!

Monday was back to breads, We did Bagels, Pretzels, New York Rye, and Pain Meunier
Interesting to learn that you boil bagels and pretzels before baking.

Tuesday was sourdough multigrain, Two Castle Rye, and Pumpernickel.

 

 These first two were a bit difficult due to the soakers, you had to make sure your gluten was developed before adding as they rip and damadge your gluten. but you didnt want the gluten too developed or your bread would become overworked from you working in those soakers.

 And forgot to score my pumpernickel but it turned out okay.  Realized i am not a fan of this bread. Dont like the taste of it. lol.

We continue doing bread for a few more days and then friday we move onto croissants and danish's!