Even yeast deserves better than this.

I’ve baked a few loafs by now and a pattern of sorts has started to emerge. I always cock it up. The annoying thing is that I’ve cocked up a different stage each and every time. Today’s mistake was memorable for being particularly dumb; I left out an ingredient.

” Eah? How is that possible? There are only four ingredients required to make dough.”

“Correct! Flour, water, yeast and salt. And I left out the ‘effing salt”.

I’d finished the initial stages of mixing and kneading and was pleased with myself for doing a good job with shaping the dough. Then I noticed the unopened salt jar besides me. @#$#!!! I tried to save the situation by flattening out my dough, adding the salt, kneading again and reshaping. But dough is a temperamental mistress and this batch didn’t appreciate my clumsy Irish caresses. The salt stuck together in lumps and my dough became so over kneaded that it just tore off in clumps in my hands. “How bad?”, you might say. Well the last time I over kneaded my dough was when I prepared the loaf in my ‘About‘ section.