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The Bread Baker’s Apprentice - This is variation 2 of his white bread recipe. I’ll note that I have the original edition, not the anniversary one, so there may be differences.

The egg listed is for the dough, so you’ll want an additional egg for the egg wash. Let me know if you have any other questions - the original recipe in the book is quite a bit more detailed, but I just jotted down shorthand for my recipe app.

Here’s a recipe for anyone who wants it. From Peter Reinhart’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice. Amounts are a little odd because I converted it to metric.

Ingredients

    584 g Bread Flour
    11 g Salt
    43 g Sugar
    6 g Instant Yeast (original amount)
    1 Egg, Slightly Beaten
    1/2 stick Butter, Melted
    340 g Milk

1. Mix all ingredients and knead 6-8 minutes.
2. Ferment at room temperature 1.5 - 2 hours, until dough doubles in size.
3. Divide dough, cover, and allow to rest 20 minutes. (Edit: I do a rough preshape here)
4. Shape into final form and allow to rise 60 to 90 minutes. (Edit: for this step I shape into mini boules and press them a little flatter.)
5. For buns, bake at 400 15 minutes.
6. For loaves, bake at 350 for 35 to 45 minutes.

Makes 10 medium buns.

Will also note that there’s an egg wash on these.

Been trying to do more reading before bed. I think avoiding backlit screens helps me transition to sleep more easily. I really recommend an eInk based ereader to anyone who likes reading but hasn’t tried one.

I really enjoyed the atmosphere of the whole thing.

Well that’s probably a bit predictable given what community this is. But I really think the pricing is way out of line with what your average person is willing to pay and it only serves to make the physical media more niche.

The back and forth on twitter/bluesky over this topic was pretty wide ranging, and size/cost definitely was a topic discussed. And besides a lot of the “quality” of BG3 was the fact that it supported endless paths through the game, something which requires a lot of development effort.

Making smaller games isn’t a bad thing. Every game being a BG3 would be completely unsustainable. Sure, that game was a great accomplishment, but also imagine if they’d made the game that size and it was bad. It would’ve probably sunk the studio. I’m all about more A and AA games. Not everything needs to be a 300 person effort.

Honestly I’m always shocked by how much they cost. Who’s paying $30+ for these? Who even owns a blu-ray player that isn’t a ps5?

Been maintaining a steady set of bookmarks since whenever Foxmarks first came out. I dunno I search through them fairly frequently for stuff that I can’t remember well enough to Google.