Each Christmas we bake, cook, steam, roast and boil so much, it’s probably some sort of record! Here’s a little ‘eclectic’ collection of Christmases past. Merry Christmas to you and may all your (baking) wishes come true! [Read More...]
WKB projects
Pizza – until you have that wood-fired oven…
We wanted to get as close to the fire of a real pizza oven as possible, until we would have the place, time and money to build one ourselves. Then one evening we zappingly land in the middle of a German cooking “infomercial” about a little pizza oven you can use at home. What intrigued us was that the crust on the pizza looked really good.Long story short: [Read More...]
Feeding a Monastery for € 5,75
My grandfather (born in 1899) was, what you would now call, an artisan baker. But in the 1930’s it was just called a baker. We now look back on all this as quite romantic times. But of course it was just really, really hard work for little money. Maybe that is the reason he never talked about his baking days (when I got to know him he’d already retired) and I never saw him bake anything. [Read More...]
The Baguette Boule: Birth of the BB Loaf
The Idea: Making a loaf with baguette dough. The big question: will the baguette dough be strong enough to hold its shape when you release it from the banneton? There was only one way to find out… [Read More...]
Baguettes: My home baker’s log
Keeping track of my baguette baking trials and errors with the goal of eventually becoming a true proficient. I was intrigued by this 80% hydration dough recipe, it seemed like a good starting point… [Read More...]
