It pushed the plastic wrap and the towel on top out of the way and broke over the top of the bowl...my biggest bowl unless I step up to the big ol' metal bowl...
This particular recipe is one I have used for years. But in the last two batches .... I have had to add lots more flour than usual to the 2 cups of water... even to get it to a stage where it is not really sticky... maybe because it has been really rainy or something? We do know that breads are finicky that way... and by the time I weighed out the two loaves I discovered that they were in the 720 gram range versus the 560 to 580 gram version of all the times past. This is silly.
They really were too big for the regular size loaf pans which are only 8 x 4 inches. This time...I tried to sort of divvy them up into one of the regular size pans and one quite large pan which is 9 x 5. It worked...sorta.... but, then, I was kind of waiting for the large one to rise a bit more and so the smaller one got "over riz" again..hahah.... and now I have one lop sided loaf and one good loaf.
See where the smaller one is poofed out on the side? But, who cares?? Paul Hollywood is not judging my bread. They taste really good as usual... and, if they don't fit in the toaster., too bad. I'll just cut them in half. Especially the BIG one... that one won't fit the toaster...
They don't look that different in some photos and the big one doesn't even look that big ... I should have put it beside the toaster for better perspective. Next time.
