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Elizabeth Keene asked about seasoning a terra cotta saucer:
In Charles Scheele's "Old World Breads", he gives the method which worked
well for me--I used the saucer from a very large terra cotta flower pot:
Wash the saucer clean and let it dry thoroughly. Grease the inside
thoroughly with vegetable shortening (not oil). Place empty saucer in a
cold oven, turn oven to 250F, bake saucer for 20 minutes, increase oven
temperature to 350F, bake another 20 minutes, increase oven temperature to
450F, bake another 20 minutes, and turn oven off, Leave saucer in oven for
2 hours to cool slowly. No more need to grease---in fact if you do, it
will not stay porous and you will lose the brick oven effect.
Before each use, put empty saucer in cold oven 10 minute before baking;
preheat the oven to 400F with empty saucer in it; when oven reaches 400F,
remove, sprinkle with corn meal, and slide your round loaf of bread onto
saucer. (baker's peel or parchment paper helps)
happy baking
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