Sourdough Bread - FAIL #2

Perfect Prove?

So, the second try of Sourdough Bread was an unmitigated disaster, go figure.

I loaded the dough onto a baking sheet for the final hour's prove, in the words of Miranda - what I like to call, the perfect prove >>>

Hastily, knife sliced 'bread'

HA!  In the 'recipe' they have a perfect looking loaf.  My perfectly proved dough however, spread out!  Filling the sheet like that self levelling concrete you can buy.  I was too embarrassed to take a photo of that, (Lauren saw it, in all its depressed glory)  so, I hastily gathered it into a bread shape gave it some knife stripes - as per the recipe and chucked it in the oven for 25 minutes.



Hey Presto!

I have achieved the probable!  Another giant bread biscuit, that could withstand Napalm.

Giant inedible biscuit

And so, after I cut a slice, with the resident hand saw, tried it, got lockjaw and promptly proclaimed it...inedible.  I can safely say that your family and children are safe! Phew!   Although I can't say the same for the local recycling centre (tip, as we know it)  Good luck with that fellas...

I am however NOT DEFEATED!

I will rise from the burnt on crusty bits, I will elevate my bread making into something never seen before...

In other words, Sour dough can go suck my proverbial.  Onto real bread...

YOU MAY TAKE MY KNEADING

YOU MAY TAKE MY BAKING

BUT YOU WILL NEVER TAKE MY...

Bread that's edible.

Bit of an anticlimax,


Still, if ever the military run out of ideas, I have the perfect bomb shelter recipe.

Catch you later with my 'normal bread' recipe, with any luck!

Love Melissa x