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Joined: September 21st, 2012


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February 3rd, 2024

Rustic Italian loaf from Canadian living breads and pizzas

This has a very wet dough and due to this I use the bread machine on the dough cycle, stopping the cycle just before it kneads the dough down. After this it’s fairly easy (use lots of flour on work surface)... read more >


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My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method

By Jim Lahey, Ron Manville, Mark Luinenburg, Rick Flaste
W.W. Norton & Co. - 2009

2nd August 2021

Basic No-Knead Bread : page 50

This recipe started me on no knead bread ages ago. Very easy and well explained with pictures. I make all my breads this way, (including sourdoughs).

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2nd August 2021

Basic Pizza Dough : page 117

Like Sturlington, this is my favourite pizza dough. Easy and works great.

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15th September 2014

Olive Bread : page 69

A good way to make olive bread. Can use less expensive olives with good results.

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2nd August 2021

Pizza Patate : page 129

This recipe uses a soaking method for the potatoes which works well; it needs to be done 90 minutes ahead. I made the recipe as written, but added some cheese to mine. As he says in the recipe, spread topping to the edge as it's likely to burn there. Mine was done in 25 minutes. Very good pizza

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