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brought on no doubt by that empty bottle of wine on top of the fridge
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On we go from last time. (For that, click here.)
The dough has been set aside in that clichéd "warm, draft-free place." And it's doubled in bulk over about an hour. In other words, there's about twice of it, compared to when it started, thanks to the yeast eating too much. About like me.
When Bruce and I met, I was the baker in the family. It stemmed from an awful failure in graduate school: orange breakfast rolls. I was taking an advanced seminar in medieval chivalric romance, it met at 8:00 am, and we grad students agreed to take turns bringing in breakfast to help us get through three hours of Petrarchan references. Also? The professor was a strict, emaciated, no-nonsense type who'd spent her entire adult life crawling around convents in Europe to find a source for one half of Chaucer's Second Nun's Tale. In other words, she wasn't exactly a laugh a minute.
On the week I was up for breakfast, I decided to make this orange breakfast roll recipe I'd found in some cooking magazine--sort of like cinnamon rolls but with candied orange peel and a pinch of ground cardamom sprinkled on the dough before it was rolled up.
I was up until four in the morning trying to get the stuff to rise.
Out of that misfortune came a determination to make yeast work. (Maybe I'd taken in some of that grim single-mindedness from my convent-crawling professor.)
Over the ensuing years, I baked a lot of bread. Before I met Bruce and even after. Because he was at first the typical chef-school type: I cook; I don't bake. (Make sure you say it with a slight sneer.) Except he watched me a few times--and got totally into it. His downfall from the heights of proper cheffery? Making a decent pie crust. But that's another story entirely.
Today he's quite the baker. He whips up fresh bread for dinner--just because.
So on to these simple, homey baguettes we had with soup the other night. I realize I've delayed too long with this story. But consider it proper training for bread-making: lots of patience.
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