[Sca-cooks] Stone

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

King Arthur Flour sells wooden peels. www.kingarthurflour.com They're
probably a usurious price, but you can find them there.

Margaret, whose cat merely sits atop the monitor and drapes her tail down
over the screen

On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Tara Sersen Boroson wrote:

>
> I considered doing that, but I prefer to do the final rise of any shaped
> bread right on the pan or stone it is to be baked on.  I always end up
> smooshing it if I try to move it from wherever it's nicely shaped and
> raised onto a pan or stone.  Also, with pizza crust, I've found that the
> bottom starts browning as soon as I put it on the hot stone.  If I lift
> a nice large braid of challah onto the hot stone and then try to adjust
> it to look right, well, it would be a disaster.  I suppose I need a
> wooden peel that the bread would slide right off of, but I have never
> seen one for sale.  Perhaps I should start researching that on the 'net.
>   Maybe one of those yucky air-flow cookie sheets would work the same
> way?  Hrm, I wonder.  Meanwhile, I have two pizza stones, one of which
> is considerably thinner than the other.  That one works well for bread
> without preheating.  But it's smaller and doesn't hold two large loaves
> of challah.  I usually use it for smaller whole wheat loaves.  Mmm... I
> made two honey-wheat loaves last night, one with a cinnamon swirl.
> Peanut butter sandwich heaven...
>
> So, I've totally been getting into bread making lately.  I've made bread
> on occasion in the past, but I've been on a bread kick for the last few
> weeks and I'm really enjoying it.  Bear, I remember you mentioning in
> the past that there are only about four existing period recipes for
> bread.  In a brief perusal of the Florilegium, I only found one (if I
> missed the others, go right ahead and yell at me - I only scanned it
> quickly.)  Would you please direct me to or post the other three?
>
> Thank you!
>
> -Magdalena
> who's trying to type around an extra fluffy cat who insists on lying
> *on* the keyboard.  At the moment, he is lying on one
> of my wrists with his chin on the other.  He's in for a surprise when I
> go to use the mouse to send this message...
>