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Friday 27 January 2012

Bread


Here's a little movie about making bread. It was sent to me by one my art tutors of last year. He is a frenchman, living in New Zealand, and, predictably, one of the things he really misses is good bread. Coincidently, it arrived shortly after Jay made a great post about the gulf between good bread and the commonly-available 'Chorleywood' method bread.


Hmmm... I seem to be having trouble embedding the movie, so click on this link instead.
the art of making bread from tiger in a jar on Vimeo.
I can't decide if I would call this 'The Art of Making Bread', 'New-Age Bread-Making', or an 'Art Film' about bread-making.

All I know is, if you make bread by hand every day, you get muscular arms, and it's not quite the soft, dreamy experience shown here!

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the link to this very pretty video. I have to disagree with the muscular arms comment; once you get into high-hydration breads, and techniques like stretch and fold, aching arms are a thing of the past.

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  2. My pleasure, Jeremy. Your comment is interesting. I shall have to investigate.
    Welcome to TLVD, by the way. Nice to see a new face.

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