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Being a Pretzel
Aug. 4th, 2021 09:16 pmI didn't sleep well Tuesday night.
Kept dreaming about trying to make the TinyMod work with CaseCAT.
Probably because I was in a chat discussing the issue right up until I went to bed.
Anyway, despite what my subconscious brain thinks, it's not the end of the world if I can't get it to work with CaseCAT.
I got up and had breakfast, messaging the TInyMod creator to let him know I'm available for walkthroughs if he has time today.
Then I did a little research on pretzel recipes...most of what I could find was in American measurements, a pain in the ass but I at least looked up a cup-to-weight flour equivalent before launching into making them.
It's a fairly simple dough of warm water, yeast, sugar, flour, melted butter, and salt.
Came together very nicely...because I've been working with so much enriched dough I forgot what it's like to have a nice non-sticky ball of regular dough to knead. It's so smooth and easy to work with! I made a few small changes to the recipe: reduced the salt by 1/2tsp and added 1.5tsp sugar (there was no sugar in the original recipe), added two tablespoons of vital wheat gluten, and used walnut oil to knead the dough instead of flour. I'm also going to use an egg wash. I'm obsessed with shiny bread.
Here's the lovely dough ball after rising for an hour.
That's the other nice thing about pretzels, they only take like an hour to rise.
While the dough was rising I cleaned up the kitchen and washed our sheets, ate lunch, and thought about what I wanted to do for the rest of the day. It turned out not to matter what I wanted to do, because what happened was the TinyMod creator got onto a Discord chat with me and wanted to have me wipe the software on my machine, and replace it with something else to see if that would get it working in CaseCAT.
I was all for it, but first had to finish these pretzel buns!
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Kept dreaming about trying to make the TinyMod work with CaseCAT.
Probably because I was in a chat discussing the issue right up until I went to bed.
Anyway, despite what my subconscious brain thinks, it's not the end of the world if I can't get it to work with CaseCAT.
I got up and had breakfast, messaging the TInyMod creator to let him know I'm available for walkthroughs if he has time today.
Then I did a little research on pretzel recipes...most of what I could find was in American measurements, a pain in the ass but I at least looked up a cup-to-weight flour equivalent before launching into making them.
It's a fairly simple dough of warm water, yeast, sugar, flour, melted butter, and salt.
Came together very nicely...because I've been working with so much enriched dough I forgot what it's like to have a nice non-sticky ball of regular dough to knead. It's so smooth and easy to work with! I made a few small changes to the recipe: reduced the salt by 1/2tsp and added 1.5tsp sugar (there was no sugar in the original recipe), added two tablespoons of vital wheat gluten, and used walnut oil to knead the dough instead of flour. I'm also going to use an egg wash. I'm obsessed with shiny bread.
Here's the lovely dough ball after rising for an hour.
That's the other nice thing about pretzels, they only take like an hour to rise.
While the dough was rising I cleaned up the kitchen and washed our sheets, ate lunch, and thought about what I wanted to do for the rest of the day. It turned out not to matter what I wanted to do, because what happened was the TinyMod creator got onto a Discord chat with me and wanted to have me wipe the software on my machine, and replace it with something else to see if that would get it working in CaseCAT.
I was all for it, but first had to finish these pretzel buns!
( Read more... )
