Sharing Your Passion for Homemade Pizza, Bread and Pasta
Some great news: Bannetons and Couches are now $3-4 lower in price, but with the same high quality we’ve always provided. If you want to see nice round boules with attractive flour patterns, and baguettes that are long and round, then you should give our proofing baskets or cloths a try. The couches are really [...]
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Antimo Caputo 00 “Extra” (Some people refer to as the “Extra Blue” or “Extra Blu”, but please don’t confuse this with the Pizzeria flour which is known as the “Blue”. The “Extra” flour comes in bag which is a lighter blue color. Caputo “Extra” is a flour produced with a low extraction rate, which means [...]
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Back in the 70′s (and still in some places today), this is how real bagels were made: NYC Bagels are the best that I’ve tasted in my lifetime. But even in NYC, it’s getting harder to find bagels that are made the old-fashioned way. Authentic bagels are made with malt, though today, sugar and corn [...]
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This semi-dense, sweet and egg-glazed bread has been an Easter tradition since before I can remember. I think this is a modification of what some Italian bakers create when they bend the braided loaf around so that it makes a circle, and then they put decorated hard-boiled eggs into the loaf. But I can’t confirm [...]
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A customer asks: I’m confused. Is the “The Chef’s Flour” farina di grano tenero tipo 00 the best flour to use for bread and pasta? I know about Caputo Pizzeria, but what do you recommend for Italian bread and pastas? Should I use this one or another. What is the gluten/protein content of these flours. [...]
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Who doesn’t love bacon? Bacon beer? Really? I gotta have some. Bacon bread looks like it would be easier to make. Recipe after the pictures at this link.
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He never baked like this when I lived with him! What a bummer. My college roommate Chuck Rossi shared these loaves, along with a little taunting. A few weeks ago he sent me these two: And tonight teases with these two. Look at the yellow of that saffron bread! Nice work Chuck. I’m impressed and [...]
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The price of wheat has jumped by about 75%, since early July, which is the highest level in two years, according to reports. What’s behind the price surge? Severe droughts in Russia have led to a crisis in the production of wheat there, leading to a recent ban on exports of a number of grains [...]
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Dad (Gary) made a whole wheat loaf the other day. He and Mom were pretty pleased with it. Very moist and delicious. I think they managed to polish the whole thing off between the two of them in little more than a day. On baking it a second time, he modified the recipe slightly and [...]
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