New Year's Resolutions - January Update
As promised I'm here to give an update on my New Year's Resolutions for this year. It's no surprise that January went very well overall. I excelled more on two of the three but the year is still young. These updates will vary in length depending on how much I get done for each resolution and since January went so well, this one is going to be rather long. So with that, let's see how well I've done thus far: 1) Bake more bread from scratch In my first post of the year I shared a picture of the couple of french loaves that I made that came out pretty well. A few weeks later I decided to use loaf pans to make bread that would be shaped better for sandwich use. Using the same master recipe as the french loaves, I did one plain and one covered in poppy seeds. For both I applied an egg wash to encourage more browning on the top. Despite the loaves coming from the same batch of dough and weighing nearly the same, I got slightly better rise out of the