Hey MariaD, I just read *A Baker's Year" about bread from starter and wood oven.

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marilynfl

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Kept thinking you would enjoy it if you haven't already done so.

She gives two nice decorative tips that I'd like to try sometime.

1. Cut a stencil and--with it in place--sprinkle a light dusting of flour over the unbaked load. Flour browns and stencil area remains pale. Lovely images.

2. Use a paint made from roasted beets to color dough remnants for decorative doodads on pie crusts.

Look at page 158 in the attached link to see a pie crust with beet art work

https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Baker_s_Year.html?id=TJ9GDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q=beet&f=false

 
Please world: if you have a website, keep it updated. I drove out to bakery because website said

it was open and displayed hours. Got there an hour later and it was not.

 
Dang! I have done the stenciled flour on bread...

That’s terrible driving all the way out there and the place being closed! No fair!

I like the idea of using beets for some color, but honestly think food coloring would just be easier. I had a fabulous website with really cool bread decoration saved on my laptop – before it died and haven’t been able to find it again. smileys/frown.gif

I haven’t made bread in a while, but I was thinking just lately I should make some. Need to refresh my starter. I froze it this time, So will need to see if that worked.

 
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