Memo to self (you idiot)

[shewhomust]

1. Eggs are liquid (you idiot): if you add eggs, reduce water accordingly.


2. Just because you bought more white flour, that doesn't mean you have more white flour: you use it quite fast (you idiot).

After two successful bakes about which there is therefore nothing to report (one summer rye, one batch marmalade Chelsea buns - mmm, sticky!), I am experimenting with a poppyseed roll, based on a recipe cut from a French magazine. The problematic part, I thought, was interpreting the instructions for dealing with the poppyseeds (quantities expressed in glasses, whatever they may be - and not an ingredient I've dealt with before), hence the idiocy in adapting the bread part of the recipe.

Might I have been thinking this would be a useful first step towards making stollen? I might...