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The Confectionary Phases of Sugar

Crack, speed ball…oh no wait, that’s what Amy Winehouse had for breakfast this morning. What I meant to say was thread, soft ball, firm ball, hard ball, soft crack, hard crack. These are the phases that a sugar syrup passes through as it “cooks”. The names are inspired by the form a drop of the […]

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The Straight Story

I could spend quite a long time expounding on the microbiology of yeast breads (and in fact I often do that, as long-time readers of joepastry.com know). But if the Straight Dough Method had to be reduced to any one thing, that thing would be gluten. For bread making is all about gluten. And why […]

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