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Summer sun on Saturday - 03 July, 2010

by Chris, 1 yr, 10 m ago in Blog
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What a beautiful day!  

Matt has been working on his window display this morning and these bright summer sunflowers certainly add to that holiday feeling - make you want to get out there and chill in the garden.  (Click on the photo to gain the full effect.)

English Strawberries are at their absolute peak at this time of year, and although I didn't take a picture of them we have the first English Cherries in this week, too.  Paler than the European varieties, they have started a bit later than usual so it'll be interesting to see how the season progresses.

 

An Apology to you and a breadmaking lesson for me!

We have an apology for our Cat Lane Malted Grain customers who will have come looking for bread this morning - a momentary lapse of concentration yesterday meant that I forgot to add the salt to the recipe.  

This produced a very sticky dough.  Salt retards the action of the yeast in the dough and consequently this did not happen which led to the dough "over-proving" overnight.  As the dough proves the gluten is stretched by the gases released in the fermentation process - if the dough overproves the gluten stretches too far and then collapses back on itself.  The finished loaf ends up resembling a lumpy brick although the texture within the loaf itself is perfectly adequate.

In the heat of summer we have had one or two problems with the bread overproving.  I took this odd looking loaf home for lunch and while it looks very sad it tastes as good as ever!

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