05-07-25

 Good morning, everyone.  We've had another nice, cool night round here; it's cloudy at the moment and predicted to stay so all day.  No hint of rain though but not to worry, cool is good however it presents.

I had fun making the baguettes and this is how they turned out:
The yeasted dough . . .

What they looked like pre baking and before the sprinkle and score. It's a half and half dough, hence the specked-ness.

And oh, yes!!

OK, so different sized (not a problem) and I needed to slash them deeper as there was great oven-spring and they split along the sides but that's OK too.

But how did they taste?

This was how the sourdough worked.  Again, great oven spring and inadequate scoring - see how it has blown out at the side - although I did try.

Neither baguette was proper crusty.

I gave two to Beth and Alex, enjoyed some for dinner and the rest is in the freezer now.
As for the taste - delicious!  Not authentic - thet were half and halfs for a start, but that's fine, they tasted great which is the most important thing.

I'm going to have another try today but the yeasted version, not the sourdough, because I don't wand anything hanging over until tomorrow.

This was how I enjoyed them.  :-)  Oh, it was good.  Home made bread, home made chutney, home churned butter (from the leftover Christmas cream) and see how good I was just having one of those mini bottles of wine.  😇

Naughty but nice!

The cookery 'class' wasn't plain sailing in that there was obviously a problem with the batter - far too much milk to flour and egg so it simply wouldn't cook, it just made a splurgy mess in the pan.  Embarrassing.

I tried another pan and it was the same so it wasn't me.

So I quickly knocked up a batch of ordinary pancakes and on we went.  Alex took to ladling and swirling the batter round the pan like a pro, bless him.

The filling was a tomato sauce with cheese and spinach and it was absolutely delicious.  Adaptable too.  The photos is my portion.
It was a shame about the pancakes though because the 'splurgy mess' tasted fab.
I wasn't going to waste the batter without a fight so, after Alex had gone, I halved the failed batter and to one half I added another egg and 40g plain flour and it worked perfectly.  So it was the recipe, not my lack of skill!!  I did the same for the other half and now there's ten big carrot crepes rolled and wrapped and in the freezer.  I'll take them over to Beth and Alex at some point.  He also took home a dish with three more filled pancakes to freeze and have at a later date.

Tomorrow is totally filled so today I will be mostly chilling, just doing things I want to do and prepping for tomorrow.  I won't be able to post tomorrow so I'll probably do an early one this evening instead.  However, if I don't, I'll be back Monday.

Have a wonderful day, all!  xx