[Sca-cooks] Final thoughts from my Laurel's Prize Tourney entry
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise
jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
Tue Sep 11 10:10:03 PDT 2007
> I STR Gervase Markham discussing manchets and saying they should be
> slashed with a sharp blade around the waist, or circumference, of the
> loaf, before baking, and this makes them expand like a cylindrical
> bellows into a sort of hatbox shape, with a nearly flat top and
> nearly straight, vertical sides. At least this is what happened the
> couple of times I followed those instructions.
Hm... that sounds like what Elizabeth David says to do for "Cottage
Loaves" but those poof out at the top. Are the slashes vertical or
horizontal?
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