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by stevekemp 2874 days ago
Today my goal was to make some tiger-bread - not the usual kind of tiger-bread as described in wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_bread

Instead I wanted to make a "leopard-print" inside the bread, using a combination of food-dye and nested pieces of dough.

Unfortunately I proved that the concept could work, but did not achieve success:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmVNZweBA9D/

I expect I'll do better next time, as I quickly realized that the addition of the colouring was really throwing off my dough. Adding cocoa-powder to dye the white-dough brown made it too stuff, and similarly the volume of "yellow" dye I needed to add made those pieces of dough too moist. It menat when I was trying to roll & wrap different coloured parts together it just didn't work.

In short I knew what I wanted to do, make "sausages" of one-colour, wrap in another, then layer those upon each other. Instead I gave up. I rolled some shapes, did some stacking, and realized I'd have better luck starting over in the future.

So that'll be a job for next weekend.

Also I implemented a simple intepreter in golang recently, following along from a book, and I'll be adding some new features to it. But that's less interesting.

1 comments

I wonder if you could use turmeric powder for yellow dye. I don't know how it will taste with the cocoa bread. I like it, not many do.
Interesting idea, thank-you. I'm certainly willing to try it :)