We just said goodbye to France 🇫🇷, and we're on to Italy 🇮🇹 as our European bread exploration continues! You'll find everything you need to start getting prepared for this bake in the attached guide. Check out page 3 for my baking notes. This was my first time working with fine durum (semolina) flour, and I had several nerve-wracking moments. I'll be posting more photos and videos over the next couple of days, but here's a photo of my first Pane Siciliano!

Sharing a simple bread calculator that you can find online at http://brdclc.com/ This is a simple but powerful tool for creating or modifying a bread recipe based on baker's percentages. Baker's percentages are widely used in baking and are simply the weight of all the ingredient in a bread formulas stated as a percentage of the weight of the flour. Try it out and let me know if it is helpful.

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