Simplify Your Cooking

The night before I want to bake some homemade French Bread, I mix 2 cups of water with 2 cups of flour in a small mixing bowl. This is the sponge and it sits out over night. The sponge is what gives the bread such a heavenly aroma. The next morning I pour the sponge into my Bosch mixer, add the rest of the ingredients and proceed with making the bread. Does anyone see anything wrong with this picture? It sounds reasonable doesn’t it? But maybe you have already figured out what it has taken me two years of baking French bread, to figure out.

Last night when I got the flour out to make a sponge I thought, “I wonder why I don’t just mix this sponge right in my Bosch? Then I won’t have to wash an extra mixing bowl.” Yes, I am a clever girl, even if it takes me two years to figure out the most logical way to make a sponge. Sooner or later I will figure it out! I could regret the last two years of washing that extra bowl but instead I’ll be happy that I won’t be washing it for the next 60.