jake wrote:

> ~patches~ wrote:
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>> jake wrote:
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>>>>>> French Bread
>>>>>> This is a basic French bread with the dough made in my breadmaker
>>>>>> then shaped into an elongated loaf on a cookie sheet and baked in
>>>>>> the oven. The green sheet is a silicone baking sheet. These nice to
>>>>>> use but they will stain as evident in the pic. Pandora if you look
>>>>>> close you will see a bit of corn meal. I like setting French bread
>>>>>> on corn meal for light dusting on the bottom.
>>>>>> Dough rising - http://tinypic.com/e7i7ow.jpg
>>>>>> Bread cooling - http://tinypic.com/e7i9m9.jpg
>>>>>> Freshly sliced bread - http://tinypic.com/e7ia9s.jpg
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>>>>> Unbaked it looks like a baby's bottom (or is that an inappropriate
>>>>> thing to say in a mostly American ng?)
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>> Excuse me it does not look like a baby's bottom! Where the heck is
>> the crack? Have you even seen the possibilities that occur on baby's
>> bottoms? That loaf rising looks nothing like a baby's bottom!
>>
> It does too! Not that I have ever studied babies' bottoms too well.
> Don't know any babies. But the dough looks so nice and soft and smooth.

Oh I got it! Having had kids I didn't get quite the connection - diaper
days and all that Yes the dough comes out really nice. The
breadmaker set to dough setting does a great job