We were taught by the lovely Liz. She had a good way with people and had everyone at their ease very quickly getting everyone smiling and chatting. All the starters had been made that morning, at about 2am or something ridiculous, and were ready for us to use in our wonderful bread creations. I learnt how to get a tight form for my dough and actually its the dough I should spray to get a nice crust on my bread hence, I am not going to bother spraying the inside of the oven again.
Lunch was a great mushroom risotto with our first batch of bread rolls and salad for lunch.
We left with enough bread to feed an army. I think we came away with 6 types of bread each, a cottage loaf, wholemeal loaf, epis, baguette, caraway loaf and some other loaf which I can't remember the name of.
I do feel like I bought the shop out, but I had only bought what I felt I needed and no more, a (very heavy) baking stone, a lame (a handled razor blade to slash the dough), a lined proving basket and couches. It was great fun and I feel like my bread will be improved, so now all I have to do is put it all into practice.
A selection of loaves
Liz with our cottage loaves
Once I got home and showed off my breads to the fam. The girl ate the epis, a baguette which has been snipped and twisted prior to baking to look like a shaft of wheat. With the baguette I made a quick sandwich for myself and the hubby with fried off cured ham, tomatoes, onions, thinly sliced red pepper and drizzled with olive oil not forgetting the seasoning. I toasted the slices of bread on the griddle & rubbed on some garlic clove. To give it some heat I smeared on some of my homemade hot chilli jam - not too much, its hot stuff. And wha-la a very delicious end of day fix. Although, not quite enough to fill the hubby, who then proceeded to have some of the wholemeal bread with smoked salmon as a chaser. Needless to say lots of bread left over and to the freezer it shall go.
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