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Did anyone save the recent Challah thread on the KAF BC?
I'm not sure if either of the primary participants in it are registered here yet, but I wanted to say that I'm just getting ready to bake and will be posting pictures of two small celebration Challahs, made from one recipe of Peter Reinhart's Challah recipe in BBA. (The three lower strands were 3.65 ounces each and the three upper strands were 1.8 ounces each.)
Here are the two loaves just before baking:
Here they are after baking. My wife's comment: Not my best work. I agree, I think I 'dropped a stitch' on one of the upper layers, too. I think they'll taste just fine, though.
Here's a closer shot of one loaf with a ruler to show size:
I left a post over on Zen's site saying there were pix here.
I can't remember the name of the other participant in that thread, she and Aaron exchanged several interesting notes on Challah traditions and lore.
Here are the two loaves just before baking:
Here they are after baking. My wife’s comment: Not my best work. I agree, I think I ‘dropped a stitch’ on one of the upper layers, too. I think they’ll taste just fine, though.
Here’s a closer shot of one loaf with a ruler to show size:
I left a post over on Zen’s site saying there were pix here.
I can’t remember the name of the other participant in that thread, she and Aaron exchanged several interesting notes on Challah traditions and lore.
Good morning Mike.
Could it have been ROBIN (From the Boston area????)Mike, I have that thread in a PDf on my laptop desktop. Just trying to figure out how to edit and post it
I think Robin is in the Facebook group. I'll ask DLady and let you know. Maybe she could let her group know that there are recipes and threads here.
I don't know if this is the place, but Randy is shutting down his blog for lack of postings. Sandra Alicante and swirth tried to get some threads going, but . . .
While I never joined Randy's blog, I like to go there and read. I copied off his cinnamon rolls recipe to try.
Sarah, you are highlighting an important point about community: Relationships have to be worked at in order to be maintained and to grow. They don't just happen. I think that the work that Mike is doing, and that all of us are doing by posting old threads and the treasure trove of recipes, will bring some people back. If someone googles a screen name or recipe name, this site will begin to come up, and they will discover that it is even better than what we had at the Baking Circle. It takes a leap of faith, having lost one community, to join another. As a Navy brat, I'm more used to it than others may be.
Some people also may be taking a break, and that happened on the Baking Circle as well. Ron was there before I was, but he left before I joined, and only came back in the past six months or so. I really miss his puns! Also, some people see a baking site as "temptation" to bake, eat. and gain weight. We had even some long-time BCs comment that that was why they stayed away from KAF.
I miss a lot of people who are not here. I do hope that they will find us again. I'm also looking forward to welcoming new people.
If we can't find any other way to get them posted, I can probably upload them somewhere (not sure where), but in general I'd rather spend 15 minutes teaching someone how to do something than 5 minutes doing it for them, especially because in the process I might learn something that will make it easier for the next person.
I've been involved in online communities since the late 80's, and have seen dozens of them come and go. I still miss some of them.
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