> "R. Fizek" verizon.net> wrote in
> news:zEKVj.5672$%%X1.5642@trnddc08:
>

>> Gentlemen,
>>
>> This dough heard words never before spoken from a women's mouth on
>> Mother's Day and if that didn't scare it - nothing would. I tried to
>> use a bench knife to cut through the dough but it was like the red sea
>> - it went together right after the knife went through it! How do you
>> cover something that is sooooo sticky? I was really surprised that it
>> stuck so well to both parchment and saran wrap without any bias
>> whatsoever. It was growing on the baking sheet like the blob...it had
>> no height to it just girth! It came out of the oven a big round brick
>> as it was forever being deflated whenever I tried to take of the
>> covering of plastic or move it from the parchment - it went thru maybe
>> 5 rises today :) What a mess!
>>
>> Tamara
>>
>> "Peter Flynn" wrote in message
>> news:68p9duF2tni5aU3@mid.individual.net...

>>> Barry Harmon wrote:

>>>> The way to divide a really wet dough without introducing new flour:
>>>>
>>>> Plop the dough down on the counter, take a careful look at the
>>>> dough, then turn your back for a few seconds.
>>>>
>>>> This will lull the dough into thinking you've given up.
>>>>
>>>> Then turn quickly back to the dough, scream loudly and, with a
>>>> slashing motion of the dough knife, cut through the middle of the
>>>> dough and pull one part away from the other. You have to be quick;
>>>> if you hesitate or are faint of heart, the dough will ooze away from
>>>> you and onto the floor.

>>>
>>> I've found that speaking very severely to the rising dough instills
>>> in it a proper sense of subservience. Most of my breads would not now
>>> *dare* to disobey me, but I did have to deal strictly with a new
>>> Italian yeast I bought recently, which was being very uppity.
>>>
>>> ///Peter

>>
>>

>
> Tamara,
>
> What recipe were you working with (or against. )
>
> Barry