Intro to Baking and Pastry
Garde Manger is done, and I’m in Intro to Baking and Pastry now. So far we’ve made foccacia, challah, danishes, baguettes, epis, morning buns, and something with puff dough. I don’t really like the class very much. All we do is follow the recipes exactly and then the dough comes out. If you don’t follow the recipe, then your bread doesn’t come out. There just isn’t anything differentiating the students, all our bread pretty much tastes the same. We aren’t even making the danish fillings ourselves, just using what is already in the kitchen. Next week I think we will do more pastry items, and the third week we do restaurant platings, so that sounds interesting, or at least more interesting than making bread. Don’t get me wrong, the bread I’ve made is damn good bread (maybe the best foccacia and challah I’ve ever had), it just isn’t very interesting. The Chef Instructor is great, I really like Chef Judy, she is a good instructor.
