It was really wet, but I think I just didn't flour the counter enough.
Not exact matches
kept putting the slightest sprinkle of
flour so that it didn't completely stick to the
counter.
I'm going to try doing it anyway, (it's sitting on my kitchen
counter) but my hopes aren't too high... My question is this - does anyone have any idea what exactly this
flour may be?
Baked goods made with nut
flours do
not keep more than two or three days on the
counter, maybe a week in the fridge at the most.
If dough sticks to
counter, you have
not put enough starch /
flour down.
SG — I am
not that familiar with bread machines because I don't have one, but part of the problem might be that it didn't pick up the extra
flour it would have each time it was pressed out on the
counter between risings.
I usually don't follow much of a ratio: I pour
flour (s) in a big bowl, add whatever liquid I have around (non dairy milk, water, cold broth, maybe a little bit apple cider, or some beer too, which gives lightness to the crêpes), some flax gel (1 Tbsp ground flax seeds + 3 TBSP warm water), some salt or maybe a little sugar, sometimes spices like curcuma and black pepper, or tandoori spice powder etc, stir until the consistency pleases me, adding more liquid if necessary, let it sit for a few hours on my
counter, and voilà.
Also, that I can leave my laptop in the living room and
not on the kitchen
counter, because I have a tiny Chicago - sized counterspace that has resulted in it being covered in
flour and vanilla and little drops of molasses over the years that I still can't seem to get off.
If I'm
not too late, keep it on your
counter and try adding a bit of rye
flour to your starter.
But your last comment suggests that you can fit 8 cups
flour in your mixer, so I'm
not sure why you wouldn't use it or need to use the
counter.
If I were to simply use a large bowl, I suppose I am
not sure how to tell when I should stop adding
flour - if you add some add a time, how much and when do you turn it out onto the
counter?
Think about adding the
flour to the outside (like, when you're braiding it) of a dough versus working it into the dough (when you're making it) so it can be used to keep the dough off the
counter but can be brushed off so the dough doesn't get tough.
The best thing is to handle them lightly, keep your
counter floured, and
not worry about the stickiness.
I did use bleached
flour when it came to putting it on the
counter and rolling it around since I don't have enough to do anything with except sort of waste and using
flour that makes amazing bread seemed to be contradictory to me.
If I used unbleached
flour, but did
nt have any left over for
flouring my
counter, could I use bleached
flour for that?
Chickpea
flour can get a little bit dense / chewy, so I wanted to
counter that — we want a cookie,
not a hockey puck.
I have a bowl with a pouring spout, so adding the
flour mixture went fairly smoothly, and I didn't spill any of it onto the
counter.
Turn it out onto a
floured counter and add as much of the remaining
flour as necessary, while kneading, until you get a soft ball of dough that's slightly tacky but doesn't stick to the
counter or your hands.
This could
not be easier — no longer do I try to put the
flour on my
counter, make a well and try to incorporate the eggs.
Move the dough to a large surface, lightly
floured if you like, although I don't think it's necessary (I use a clean
counter, but you could use a large cutting board or table), and knead for 5 - 10 minutes.
I really appreciated
not trying to handle too delicate tortillas, and the fact that I did
not have to dirty my
counter with
flour and dough.
On a
floured counter, roll the dough out into a 12 - inch round and it really doesn't need to be perfectly shaped.
Grab a dutch oven and lightly sprinkle some
flour in the bottom; then reheat your oven to 450 degrees F. Return back to the dough blob on your
counter — fold over and tuck under, as you work around the dough — you are going to form it into a ball —
not too large, maybe around 7 - 8 ″ in diameter.
Dumped it out on the
counter to pat into a circle, and added more
flour then in an attempt to get it to a state where I could cut it into triangles (still didn't really work), but the dough was still so soft and oozy that the scones didn't hold their form and spread out a lot while baking.
Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to
counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white
flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?