A quest for bread making's Holy Grail
Oh ye of little faith, the “ye” being me. Thing is, so often croissants disappoint. But probably because the rare good one is such… pleasure, this little optimistic voice – the power of intermittent reinforcement, I suspect – whispers: “Go on, try!” So, “and a chocolate croissant”, I say, when buying my loaf of sourdough rye and my half-dozen sourdough Portuguese rolls. And yes, this is a sourdough croissant. And they’ve all just come out of the wood-fired oven, where earlier, when invited to peek inside, I saw the little wood pile, over at the side, smouldering fiery red-...
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