"The Little Thief," even more sharply, ends with two knives: one slicing a throat, the other scoring dough for French bread... View Article Anthony Lane has been a film critic for The New Yorker since 1993.
Using bagels, flour tortillas, French bread, or pizza dough, make a personal size pizza for each family member and allow everyone to top their own pies from a selection of vegetables, cheeses, meats, etc. Experimenting with new things.
With the dough of the French bread – sometimes it was still warm – I would make little figures.
Mixing the dough, however, is only a short part of making a loaf of French bread, so it's usually easier to just mix it up by hand.
A static oven designed for French bread baking has been instrumented to monitor the processing conditions and record variables responsible for dough changes.
His recipe for French bread is more than thirteen hundred words and includes such passages as "Autolysis will occur, allowing the dough to hydrate and the developing gluten to relax before kneading (processing) is continued".
The salad creates its own juice if the tomatoes are good, so plan to serve it with excellent, crusty bread, such as a French baguette, sour dough, or peasant-type black bread.
And what's with the pissaladiere category, which does not include the traditional southern French pizza-like dough topped with caramelized onions, olives and anchovies?
Master baker Isidore Boudin – the story goes – borrowed a spoonful of starter from a gold miner and married it with a standard French-style bread dough.
