[Sca-cooks] Arts and Sciences; bread

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Mar 30, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Georgia Foster wrote:

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> I made and entered Manchet for one of two entries  in our local Arts  
> and Sciences competition.  I am sort of ashamed to say ... I sort of  
> cheated ....
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> I took the original, converted weight to cups and divided the whole  
> by 12 ... giving me a recipie that started with 10 cups of flour  
> instead of half a busheland 1.5 cups of water instead of one gallon.

Congrats on your achievement -- it sounds like you'll approach the  
role of champion with integrity, which is what's important.

Can you tell us more about the original recipe you used? Who's this  
making a bushel of flour's worth of manchet? I STR Markham giving a  
recipe with instructions on how to shape them and all, but I don't  
have it in front of me right now... I just remember following his  
shaping instructions and getting little loaves that were almost  
perfect little hat-box-shaped cylinders, which was way cool.

Glad to hear you're having fun, and hoping to hear more...

Adamantius






"Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls,  
when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's  
bellies."
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