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THREE YEARS BEFORE John Fitch began contemplating the absurd--a boat powered by steam, not wind or men with oars--a warring band of Delaware Indians seized his raft, which was heading up the Ohio River with flour for settlers. The Indians scalped two of his companions; Fitch narrowly escaped a tomahawk blow to the head. This was his second brush with death at the hands of the Delaware tribe, whose swift canoes in 1782 often rendered the settlers' plodding rafts easy prey...
...consistent result. She believes in taking some of the work out of kneading by using a mixer with a dough-hook attachment; this too will yield more consistent results. She's also a big fan of instant yeast, which, unlike regular yeast, gets added at the beginning with the flour and water to start the fermentation process. "Instant yeast is like a miracle," she says; it prevents the common mistake of killing the yeast by adding water that...
...bread machines, is personalizing them to one's preferences. "You get to this point when you realize you can relax and allow instinct, intuition and empirical experience to play a bigger role in your efforts," says Jeffrey Hamelman, director of the Baking Education Center at King Arthur Flour in Norwich, Vt., and author of A Baker's Book of Techniques and Recipes (Wiley; 432 pages). "If we look at breads as individuals rather than as this generic 'Oh, it's all bread,' then we start to gradually learn their characteristics. We can then gear our efforts toward getting the correct...
...Wiggin, 48, an attorney from Columbus, Ohio, who's been baking artisanal bread for almost a year, has already reworked a sourdough recipe to match his tastes. "I like my sourdough fairly strong and chewy, with a fairly sour acidic taste, so I add wheat gluten to the flour," says Wiggin, who bakes about once a week. It takes him two days to prepare the dough, but the payoff, he says, is a sense of exultation when the bread comes out of the oven...
There's nothing like an apron to evoke domesticity. Like a treasured baby blanket, it is rich with sentiment and associations. Store-bought or homemade, flower print or flour sack, an apron does double duty as protection and decoration. An old apron's faded pattern seems a memory of itself. Its soft, well-washed fabric feels as soothing as soup. But an apron also represents a woman kept in her place. The pert hostess aprons of the 1950s, with their printed poodles and cheery appliques, might seem these days to have tried too hard to put a good face...