Today, it was ciabatta day for the bread group on the farm, and as I’ve missed a few sessions I thought I’d have a look in.
It’s a tricky dough to work with, and thus has a high potential for comedy. This is particularly true by the time it has had olives, rosemary or sun-dried tomatoes worked into it. The latter are particularly problematic because they can, in the hands of a novice, produce a loaf that looks like the result of a splenectomy.
Things have changed a lot since the early days,when the results were a bit hit and miss and often ended up on the bird table. These days we have a group of quietly determined bakers producing loaves which generally look like the pictures in books, so that we hardly ever have to use the words rustic or artisan. (If you aren’t familiar with the terms artisan denotes that the loaf looks hand made. Rustic means it looks like it’s been hand made by someone using a shovel.) Fortunately they still aren’t perfect, and I am grateful for that, as it makes things more interesting.
As you can see, ciabatta is open to a number of interpretations, including the rosemary shadow effect – I might try that next time I bake.
Ciabatta with the shadow of rosemary
They look good! Much better than my attempts anyway.
Practice makes perfect! Keep going!
Looks delicious!
It looked good, it smelt good, but the bakers were deaf to my hints…
They look good. You’d find comedy in anything 🙂
There’s a lot of comedy around, particularly when you see how this place is run! 😉
Yes, the bread did look good. Sadly there was none left over.
they look delicious 🙂 and, the splenectomy joke is hilarious! it so well fits baking mishaps (i ended up baking bagels that looked and tasted like plastic last week…) bon appetite
I once baked potato bread that did a very good impression of a brick.
We should form a Society of Bad Bakers.
🙂
hah haaa :)))) I loved that!! I can be the best contributor of this Society 🙂