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Henrik Wist
17b667f4b4 Eliminates duplication (#467)
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I tripped over the 'around all around' it sounds wrong to me. I propose to either have 'all around' or 'around your'.
2025-08-06 17:04:58 +02:00
Ced
93006f34c7 Bump ruby version there too
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so it is coherent...
2025-06-09 18:39:13 +01:00
Ced
cc044c7776 Bump the ruby version
As CI is broken right now... let's try that.
2025-06-09 18:20:16 +01:00
Adam Liechty
505abb15b4 Grammar: "led" is past tense of "lead"
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2025-06-09 14:26:09 +01:00
Adam Liechty
134e423277 Sourdough starter: grammar nits
- Idiomatic phrase
- Independent clauses separated by ; or .
2025-06-09 14:25:58 +01:00
Ced
91b073e0fd Fix dependencies in makefile
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- Add the tex4ht workaround
- define src_recipe before adding it to src_tex
- have vars.tex as dependencies for figures even if we use it only for
  standalone
2025-03-26 23:05:47 +00:00
7 changed files with 23 additions and 23 deletions

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@@ -37,24 +37,24 @@ At \qty{75}{\degreeCelsius} (\qty{167}{\degF}) the surface of your dough turns
holds together nicely but is still extensible. This gel is essential
for oven spring as it retains the gas inside your dough.
As the dough warms up in the oven, the water starts to evaporate out of your
dough. If this weren't the case, your bread would come out soggy and
doughy. The higher the hydration of your dough, the more water your bread
At around \qty{100}{\degreeCelsius} (\qty{212}{\degF}) the water starts to evaporate out of your
dough. If this weren't the case, your dough would taste soggy and
doughy. The higher hydration your dough has, the more water your bread
still contains after the bake, changing its consistency. As a result the
crumb will be somewhat moister.
crumb is going to taste a bit more moist.
Another often undervalued step is the evaporation of acids from the crust.
Another often undervalued step is the evaporation of acids.
At~\qty{118}{\degreeCelsius} (\qty{244}{\degF}) the acetic acid in your dough
starts to evaporate.
Shortly after at~\qty{122}{\degreeCelsius} (\qty{252}{\degF}) the lactic acid begins evaporating.
This is crucial to understand and it opens the door to many interesting
ways to influence your final bread's taste. As more and more water
evaporates the acids in your dough become more concentrated.
There is less water but in relation you have more acids, therefore a longer
begins to evaporate the acids in your dough become more concentrated.
There is less water but in relation you have more acids, therefore a shorter
bake will lead to a more tangy dough. The longer you bake the bread,
the more of the water evaporates, but also ultimately the acids will follow.
The longer you bake, the less sour your bread is going to be. By controlling
baking time you can somewhat influence which sourness level you would like to achieve. Since the inside of the bread will never go above \qty{100}{\degreeCelsius} (\qty{212}{\degF}), acids cannot evaporate from there.
baking time you can influence which sourness level you would like to achieve.
It would be a very interesting experiment to bake a bread at different exact
temperatures. How would a bread taste with only evaporated water but

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@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ During World~War~II the first packaged dry yeast was developed. This would
ultimately allow bakeries and home bakers to make bread much faster and more
consistently. Thanks to pure yeast, building industrial bread making machines
was now possible. Provided you maintain the same temperature, same flour and
yeast strains fermentation became precisely reproducible. This ultimately lead
yeast strains fermentation became precisely reproducible. This ultimately led
to the development of giga bakeries and flour blenders. The bakeries demanded
the same flour from year to year to bake bread in their machines. For this
reason, none of the supermarket flour you buy today is single origin. It is

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@@ -35,21 +35,21 @@ chapters = baking basics bread-types cover flour-types history intro mix-ins\
non-wheat-sourdough sourdough-starter storing-bread troubleshooting\
wheat-sourdough glossary
# Actual book text and LaTeX code {{{
src_tex := $(foreach directory, $(chapters), $(wildcard $(directory)/*.tex))
src_tex += book.tex book_sans_serif.tex references.bib figures/vars.tex
src_tex += supporters.csv sourdough.sty colors.tex abbreviations.tex
src_tex += $(src_recipes)
# }}}
# Tables and TikZ flowcharts/plots/drawings... {{{
src_tables := $(wildcard tables/table-*.tex)
src_figures := $(wildcard figures/fig-*.tex) figures/flowcharts_tikz.tex
src_figures := $(wildcard figures/fig-*.tex) figures/flowcharts_tikz.tex figures/vars.tex
src_figures += $(wildcard plots/fig-*.tex) abbreviations.tex colors.tex
src_recipes := $(wildcard recipes/*.tex)
src_plots := $(wildcard plots/*.table)
# }}}
# Actual book text and LaTeX code {{{
src_tex := $(foreach directory, $(chapters), $(wildcard $(directory)/*.tex))
src_tex += book.tex book_sans_serif.tex colors.tex abbreviations.tex
src_tex += $(src_recipes) supporters.csv references.bib
src_tex += sourdough.sty
# }}}
tgt_figures := $(patsubst %.tex, %.png,$(src_figures))
# Photos {{{
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ low_res_images := $(filter-out %.png, $(low_res_images))
src_all := $(src_tex) $(src_figures) $(src_tables) $(images) $(src_plots)
# Format specific configuration files
ebook_src := $(src_all) tex4ebook.cfg book.mk4 book-ebook.css
ebook_src := $(src_all) tex4ebook.cfg book.mk4 book-ebook.css nameref.4ht
website_src := $(src_all) website.cfg style.css
website_dir := static_website_html

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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
In this chapter you will learn how to make your
own sourdough starter, but before doing so you will
quickly learn about baker's math. Don't worry,
it's a very simple way how to write a recipe which
it's a very simple way to write a recipe which
is cleaner and more scalable. Once you get the hang
of it you will want to write every recipe this way.
You will learn to understand the signs indicating
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ values are just shown as a reference.
Don't use chlorinated water when setting up your starter.
Ideally, you should use bottled water. In certain regions
like Germany, tap water is perfectly fine. Chlorine is added
to water as a disinfectant to kill microorganisms, you will
to water as a disinfectant to kill microorganisms; you will
not be able to grow a starter with chlorinated water.
In this process, the hydration of your starter is \qty{100}{\percent}.

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@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ Similar to baking too hot, when baking without enough steam, your dough's crust
forms too quickly. It's hard to spot the difference between the two mistakes.
I~typically first ask about the temperature and then about the steaming technique
to determine what might be wrong with the baking process. Too little steam can
typically be spotted by having a thick crust around all around your dough paired
typically be spotted by having a thick crust all around your dough paired
with large alveoli towards the edges.
The steam essentially prevents the Maillard reaction from happening too quickly

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@@ -1 +1 @@
3.3.7
3.3.8

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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
pry
RUBY VERSION
ruby 3.3.7p123
ruby 3.3.8
BUNDLED WITH
2.4.12