No Yeast – No Rise!

What’s for dinner?  I had no idea!  So I thought, I’ll make a focaccia, I’m sure something will come together then.

Whipped up a batch of my baguette recipe, spread it onto some baking paper to rise, and wandered off to do a few things.  When I returned it was still the same – it hadn’t risen!  Tilted my head this way and that, yes, it still hadn’t risen…  Then a light bulb moment – I hadn’t added the yeast – no yeast, no rise!!!

I’d already washed up and put away the stand mixer, and being lazy, just reached into the drawer for a bowl , scraped the dough/batter into the bowl, sprinkled over the dry yeast, used up a bit of elbow grease and mixed and mixed by hand.  There were little dots of yeast through the batter, I kind of new that it wasn’t right, but perservered, put down another sheet of baking paper, spread out the dough/batter, and set it to rise…  Did a few more things, still no rise.

OK, out comes the stand mixer, again, scraped in the dough, spread it out, went away did some more jobs, come back, a little bit of rise… finished the top off with sprinkling of salt flakes and freshly picked rosemary and put it in the oven to bake.

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