Sunday, May 18, 2008

baking




Mmm, I'm baking bread again this weekend, it's in the oven rising. It's taking a while because it has a lot of Spelt and Kamut in it.

I was interested in what is the optimal bread rising temperature, and it seems like 30C (86F) is the best rising temperature, but it can be as low as 80F and as high as 105F.

Here's some helpful links:

Care Of The Rising Dough
Bread Baking 101 : Part 1: Let the Dough Rise
Bread Baking Guide
HOW TO BAKE:
FIVE FACTORS TO GET YOUR BREAD TO RISE


Following wikipedia led me to:

relict - The term relict is used to refer to surviving remnants of natural phenomena. In biology a relict is an organism that at an earlier time was abundant in a large area but now occurs at only one or a few small areas. The distribution of a relict is characterized as endemic.