by ben@ben-smith.net | Apr 11, 2016 | Uncategorised
Text as published in Hiut Denim’s yearbook number three. Illustration by Bjorn Lie “There’s a shop around the corner, go buy some flour, knock up another batch, you’ll clean up.”It was 1pm and we’d just sold out. The weather forecast took a u-turn for the...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Mar 30, 2015 | Uncategorised
We keep two sourdough starters. Extravagant I know. This is mainly down to nostalgia but there’s the odd occasion where there are benefits of maintaining two at different hydrations or water contents. Sanj is getting on a bit now, born in my old flat, named after a...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Jan 13, 2013 | Uncategorised
…not from an Ethiopian as in Kipling’s version, or in the usual fashion for Neapolitan pizzas but get them he did and we were pretty proud of last night’s pizzas. Yesterday was another day of tests, tweaking and perfecting. We were using Caputo...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Jan 1, 2013 | Uncategorised
Saturday was D-Day, Dough-Day to be clear, we didn’t venture to Normandy. The aim was simple, to try a variety of dough recipes with a view to finding our favourite. We were sticking to classic Neapolitan pizzas which happen to be both our personal favourites...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Nov 25, 2012 | Uncategorised
Moving on to the next members of the family, this time the little ones, Sanj and Clare. These are our sourdough starters. Sanj, I made from nothing more than flour and water in my old flat, and he takes his name from my old flatmate. Clare, Sanj’s more...
