Pastry Maestra https://pastry-maestra.local Free Video Tutorials on Baking, Pastry making and Creating Desserts. Have a sweet life! Sun, 13 Feb 2022 12:24:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://pastry-maestra.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/favicon.png Pastry Maestra https://pastry-maestra.local 32 32 No Knead Dutch Oven Bread https://pastry-maestra.local/bread-and-rolls/no-knead-dutch-oven-bread/ Sun, 11 Dec 2016 21:00:41 +0000 https://pastry-maestra.local/?p=6908 T

his bread is so fantastic that I am literally over the moon and I just can’t stop eating it! Forget everything that you have learned about making yeast dough for a moment, and take a look at this perfect, crunchy crust! And the inside, OMG the inside is so soft and full of little holes! The best part is – it is so ridiculously easy to make this bread that anybody can do it!

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Dado’s Bread https://pastry-maestra.local/bread-and-rolls/dados-bread/ Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:08:45 +0000 https://pastry-maestra.local/?p=6174 I

’m very picky about my bread! The crust has to be crunchy, of course, and inside – I want beautiful taste, airiness and softness, in that order and without exception. One thing I hate the most is the soft and chewy crust, and that often happens when Jugo blows. What the fudge is Jugo? Well, Jugo is a strong, relatively warm, but highly unpleasant wind that blows in Dalmatia – southern Croatian region – from the South-East, meaning from the sea.

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Milk Bread https://pastry-maestra.local/bread-and-rolls/milk-bread/ Thu, 29 Oct 2015 16:47:13 +0000 https://pastry-maestra.local/?p=6021 D

o you like clouds? I do – but not those ugly, dark, rainy clouds, no! My favorites are the fluffy ones; white, cotton-like, soft and silky like…like the milk bread!

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Baguette à la Napoléon https://pastry-maestra.local/bread-and-rolls/baguette-a-la-napoleon/ Fri, 04 Sep 2015 08:31:05 +0000 https://pastry-maestra.local/?p=5616 T

here is an interesting story about the origin of the baguette’s shape. The legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte himself requested his army boulangers to create a thin, elongated loaf, so his soldiers could carry the bread effortlessly – in their trousers!

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Kaiser Rolls https://pastry-maestra.local/bread-and-rolls/kaiser-rolls/ Thu, 20 Aug 2015 08:57:29 +0000 https://pastry-maestra.local/?p=5425 K

aiser rolls, also called Vienna rolls or hard rolls, are crusty, round yeast raised rolls that originated in Austria. The word 'kaiser' means emperor in German, and there is a belief that they got the name after Emperor (Kaiser) Franz Joseph I of Austria who lived at the turn of 19th and 20th century. ]]>