really like the coles honeycomb ones! but 3 bucks a packet is taking the piss a bit

Cookies are today’s DD Thread theme. 🍪🙂

Beef curry don please

Pour l’essentiel, l’homme est ce qu’il cache : un misérable petit tas de secrets. André Malraux

Translation: “Essentially, man is what he hides: a miserable little pile of secrets.”

StudSpud: “I say less secrets and more Castlevania!” Thumps table

A Toscano Gluten Free Pizza Base. $7.
I went to 2x Woolies and 2x Coles on the weekend in a futile search for the bloody thing. Can’t have family pizza night without it.

Update: Dad went down to Coles this afternoon and found one! Pizza night is on!

2&3 of Master Li and Number 10 Ox please

it’s nice cuddling weather 🙂😸

I can see it! I love hot lips salvia. Such a cheerful, pretty plant :)

Yesterday I saw a rainbow lorikeet but didn’t get a pic

If I was to buy another bike I’d get one with the most comfortable seat possible and get someone else to ride it for me while I’m in the back. People love bike riding and I’m like “My back can’t cope with being bent over like that and my fanny hurts”. I do envy bike riders.

What kind of bike did you get?

I got 8. It would be great if this stuff was taught in schools. I worked in a bank for a while, and as unpleasant as that was at least it made me learn about interest

I couldn’t be bothered doing the math. 4! Which is rather a worry given what I’m doing this week 😝

9/11. Don’t rely on me to change a tyre!

9/11 - I fail at the math ones lol! And the tyre one hahah

7/10 not mad about the ones I got wrong!

8 outta 11. not bad!

10/11 - the super contribution one got me (by half a percent!).

Ahh… I don’t have a car and am a pensioner. Also I don’t have a credit card. I can only really speak to the eggs.

Does this mean I’m entitled to kids meals and tickets?

10/11. The credit card one fucked me.

8/11

Off by .5% for super. Didn’t get the bonus question and what was the last….

Oh yeah, the CC one.

The egg one is baffling. I’ve never seen buy one get one free for eggs.

Oh he is a delight 😎

I’ve got a thing for Tennant.

Don’t add all your moisture at once. The weather can change things a fair bit. Either flour or oil your hands.

When you’re mixing in the bowl, if your dough is coming away from the bowl easy then you’ve got enough flour in there. Before you chuck your hands in there flour them too.

Flour to HANDS, not to the dough. I’m serious. What is happening is that the oils/moisture on your skin is sticking to the dough (whatever sort). So wash hands, dry well and then dust with flour back AND front- use at least 1 tablespoon and shake off excess to one side to use under the dough later. Then punch the dough, fold and whack it until it comes together. At least 3-5 times. Then knead or not depending on recipie. DON"T KNEAD MUFFINS, and scones only lightly. Chilling the dough once it’s come together does help.
Or you can embrace the sticky, and then when the dough comes together rub off the sticky bits into the dough (only if hands are clean). Dough behaves a bit like bluetack in that it can be rubbed into balls that attract other balls.

Be sparing when adding more flour as you can accidentally use too much and throw off the ratio. I’m told that continuing to knead makes it go smooth elastic and become less sticky but maybe a dough scraper would help get it off the surface and back into the dough ball until it reaches that point.

I’m not a hugely experienced baker but hopefully that helps somewhat

I’ve made bread, pizza bases, focaccia, and pretzels - I tend to add the moisture in bits and used a silicone dough scraper or silicone spatula to mix it together initially in the bowl. Keep adding the moisture in bits and mix it in.

Sometimes it may require more flour or moisture than what the recipe calls for, depending on room temp and humidity, so add those in bits, mix in, and see what it looks like. Once it starts coming together naturally into a ball, add oil to your hands, lightly flour the benchtop and start kneading. Olive oil is good for making pizza bases, adds a lil flavour. For bread, try veggie or sunflower oil, less flavour added to the dough. The oil will help prevent the dough from sticking to your hands and will also allow the dough to stay together.

Rest it until it doubles in size and follow the recipe (some call for another kneading and rest, others will say to move on to baking/rolling it out into pizza shape). You don’t need to bake the pizza dough before adding ingredients, but you can if you want a crunchy base.

If you’re using yeast, add just a small small pinch of sugar. Sugar helps the yeast get started, and a small enough pinch you won’t notice it in the final product. Be careful using American recipes, as they tend to want you to add quite a lot of sugar; their bread is quite sweet - which can be off-putting if you’re looking for a more savoury loaf.

If you’re making pretzels, shape into the pretzel shape, and you will need to boil them before baking. I don’t use lye (because I don’t know how to dispose of it safely while in an apartment), but baking soda or powder does the trick.
Baking soda will require some kind of acid to activate, so you can use baking powder which doesn’t require that step :)

It takes trial and error to get the dough right. You might not get it the way you want it on the first, second, or third attempt, but keep trying! It’s best to start with a recipe, and then alter it as needed. Eventually you’ll just be able to do it without looking at a recipe - at least from my experience :) good luck sir!

Use lots of flour on the bench or board, rub flour into your rolling pin and rub flour onto your hands before handling dough.