Passing on skills

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

One of my New year's resolutions was to help my partners gain skills I already have that they want to learn.

Duly, yesterday R and I had a baking date and this is how it went.


We made St Lucy buns.

Heating milk and butter so it's the right temperature for feeding yeast.


Mixing the dough


A nice dough ball ready for rising.



Traditionally shaped and ready for the oven.




Look how well they turned out! See how even the crumb is!

Comments

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

If I ask you nicely sometime in 2016, could you teach me this too, or has the new year's resolution expired by then?

I like baking in principle, but have never tried raising things with anything other than self-raising flour or occasional baking powder; I think I'm almost as scared of yeast as I am of making my own pastry.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Yes definitely absolutely, I'd love to.

This is a resolution that came into force on the first Sunday of advent so is quite new, so definitely not running out.

[ceb.livejournal.com]

Oh, how excellent :-)

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

:)

[forestofglory.livejournal.com]

That looks tasty!

(I've baked with R once or twice and had a lot of fun, but geography precludes making it a regular thing.)