[Sca-cooks] Bread Puzzles - Paris

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

The other bread test I referenced (but did not translate) might be of  
interest, although it is less detailed. This is from Paris in 1432:

_https://books.google.com/books?id=qnEnhvWuWgYC&dq=pain%20%22deux%20doubles%
22&pg=PA995#v=onepage&q&f=true_ 
(https://books.google.com/books?id=qnEnhvWuWgYC&dq=pain%20"deux%20doubles"&pg=PA995#v=onepage&q&f=true) 

It  includes a list of costs at the end. Note that one item that is NOT 
mentioned  here is salt.
 
Jim  Chevallier

Contributor, Savoring Gotham
A Food  Lover's Companion to New York City
Editor-in-chief: Andrew F. Smith  and Foreword by Garrett Oliver
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/savoring-gotham-9780199397020?cc=us&
lang=en


In a message dated 2/3/2016 9:36:14 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
ddfr at daviddfriedman.com writes:

As both  Bear and I observed, the weight given for the dark bread going 
into the  oven is the same as for the dark bread coming out of the oven, 
which  cannot be right. The obvious interpretation is scribal error. The 
number  given is for one of the two figures and was accidentally copied 
for the  other. My current guess is that it's the weight coming out, and 
that the  weight going in should have the same ratio to the weight coming 
out as for  the light bread. I'm in the process of doing one loaf of each 
based on  that interpretation.

One number that I don't have but would find useful  is the ratio of the 
weight of bread coming out of the oven to the weight  of flour in the 
dough going in. I can measure it for my standard modern  sourdough recipe 
next time I make it, but presumably someone, probably  Bear, knows what a 
typical figure is.

This is fun. Part of what  makes it fun is that we have three different 
kinds of constraint and are  looking for an interpretation consistent 
with all of them:

1. The  text from the trial.

2. The numbers from the trial--weight of dough  going in, weight of bread 
coming out.

3. What actually works for  making bread.

I think I have an interpretation that satisfies all  three, but with some 
strain on the first—a not impossible reading, but not  the most natural. 
Bear has a different interpretation.

--  
David/Cariadoc
www.daviddfriedman.com
http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/

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