Recipe adapted from Jimmy Griffin’s Art of Lamination book.
Risen for ~4 hours at ~26C.
Risen for ~3 hours at 26C, then rested in the fridge overnight.
Butter lock-in followed by a book fold and a letter fold, with 1 hour rest in between in the fridge + 10 min in the freezer. Every roll-out is to about 5mm thickness. Learned hand lamination technique from this awesome video by Jimmy Griffin.
Shaped & then proofed overnight for ~10 hours at 26C.
Preheated the oven to 220C, then baked for 20 minutes at 170C (fan-ventilated).
The two keys two success I feel were:
I recommend The Only Academic Phrasebook You'll Ever Need: 600 Examples of Academic Language to my undergrads. It's in American English. This website is a phrasebank in British English.
High school counselor here. I'll get the difficult part out of the way. Unless your family has their name on the library - nobody has very high changed of getting into these schools. The statistics are heavily against you.
That said - as long as you are not putting all your eggs in said basket and have some additional target colleges that are not a sweepstakes - shoot your shot. The worst they can say is no but don't get so wrapped up in the prestige. There are differing opinions (usually from those who went to these sweepstakes colleges) but also check out this book by Frank Bruni about how the majority of "successful" people did not actually attend any of these sought after schools.
https://www.amazon.com/Where-You-Not-Who-Youll-ebook/dp/B00LLIIZMK
If you have financial need and do get in - it can be helpful because most have a 100% need met policy. The hard part is being the outlier and getting in.
Apply broadly, don't let your identity be swept up in where you go or do not go and focus on developing your skills and attitudes. That is what determines your limits of success - not the name on the diploma. Best that will do is maybe open a few doors but you have to do the rest. Good luck.
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Welcome! I am just halfway through my Social Psychology BA program :) This book has been extremely helpful for writing research papers. Also, powerthesaurus.com., grammarly and online APA citation generators. After writing so many academic research papers, choosing fresh language and sentence flow can become tiresome. Even after you get the hang of citation formats and paper organization, it’s just nice and handy to have those little helpful tools! You will do great!
The Book is called "The Exoneration of Emma, Joseph, and Hyrum" by Ronald Meldon Karren. It can be found here https://theexonerationofemmajosephandhyrum.com/ or here https://www.amazon.com/Exoneration-Emma-Joseph-Hyrum-Part-ebook/dp/B07728CX7N
I own and have read the physical copy. I don't recall enough of the theory off the top of my head to give you an accurate explanation, I can get back to you on that tomorrow. It is late here. I'll still be on for awhile, but don't feel like dragging down and rifiling through the book at the moment.
> i'm genuinely not trolling.
seemed like it might be when you accuse me of not giving the name of the book...in response to a comment where i give the name of the book in literally the same sentence where i even referenced a book, and accuse me of belonging to a cult...then accuse me of trolling and reffering you to a footnote elsewhere in the thread, when i really just reffered you to the very comment you responded to that you seemingly just not read very well.
but, alright then.
> are you trans?
Yes, I am trans. although, John was never actually my name. was just an alias I went by long ago, and no longer even identify with, but alas Reddit does not allow one to change their name
Take it with a grain of salt because i'm just a home chef, not a pro. However, your interior structure looks great for the method you used. If by "improving" you mean that you're looking to achieve a more lacey and delicate interior (while still maintaining that honeycomb structure) I'd recommend choosing a lamination method that gives you more layers. What you've described would be considered a 3-4-3 lamination method, which is pretty conventional and even favored for a pain au chocolat. But if you changed your method to use a 3-4-4 or even a 3-3-3-3 you'd get more layers and a finer texture. Jimmy Griffin has a great book where he expains this in some detail. The book isn't terribly well-organized and lacks a lot of polish (it's self published - basically a rambling word doc turned into a "book") BUT it provides direct, clear advice from a top-level pro on all the variables you can change for your croix, including butter handling, lamination types, proofing temp and times, and baking times. If you're looking for a technical deep-dive into lamination, it's a great book. Also - as a final note, i'm not wild about sourdough croissants - the "slow and steady" leavening activity of levain doesn't seem optimal for croissants. Osmotolerant yeast (SAF Gold) has a lot more zip to it than a standard yeast (like SAF red). For my croix, I generally use a poolish method with SAF Gold.
Recipe adapted from Jimmy Griffin’s Art of Lamination book.
Levain build:
Risen for ~4 hours at ~26C.
Risen for ~3 hours at 26C, then rested in the fridge overnight.
Standard butter lock-in followed by a book fold and a letter fold, with 1 hour rest in between folds in the fridge + 10 min in the freezer. Every roll-out is to about 5mm thickness. Learned hand lamination technique from this awesome video by Jimmy Griffin.
Shaped & then proofed overnight for ~10 hours at 26C.
Preheated the oven to 220C, then baked for 20 minutes at 170C (fan-ventilated).
The two keys two success I feel were:
> Wait why should public schools compete schools compete when they're all funded by the same organization, we the people.
Guaranteeing funding for those public schools even when they do a terrible job, and in fact people urging increased funding to bad schools, is exactly why those terrible schools are so terrible.
> Seems like a great way to allow rich people to bus their kids to a better school, leaving poorer kids in the lurch.
The beneficiaries of school choice policies are generally poor students. Rich people can get good schooling for their kids regardless of whatever policies you want to put into place to stop them.
> What I want is a national per capita spending mandate on all public schools. No more of this being tied to property tax bullshit.
The problem in education is not that not enough money is being spent. Many terrible schools already spend more per student than tuition to very good private schools cost. More guaranteed spending would not fix the problem. In fact I think it would just make it worse.
There's a very good book, The Beautiful Tree, that compares public schooling in the third world to a fascinating phenomenon of low cost private schools. These are "low cost" in the sense that they serve people who are near the world poverty line of living on $1.90 per day, not American poverty. In some cases the schools are actually illegal. And yet the education researcher who wrote the book conducted testing of these schools and found that they do better than the better funded, 'free', public alternative. And, hey, the Kindle edition is only ~$1.90 on Amazon.
Use an academic phrasebank - or even better, make your own.
A phrasebank is a list of ways that professionals say various things...how they say who was in the participant pool, how they say that two groups were the same, and so on. You can find them online or buy a book of them.
The cost-to-benefit ratio is excellent.
Books specifically for laminated pastries - I saw this one recently on amazon but haven't read it.
I may offer this tip tho - Get really good quality butter - and if possible get anything over 80 per cent butterfat. Keep in mind it probably won't be cheap.
'Choosing and using statistics: a biologist's guide' is one I used in my past.
https://sunsetridgemsbiology.wikispaces.com/file/view/Choosing+and+Using+Statistics.pdf
It's not free, but if using R then Rob Thomas guidebook is by far the best small reference book. I have a physical copy I always have with me when running analysis in R. Doesn't teach statistics per say, but very useful as a handbook whilst running statistics.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Data-Analysis-statistical-Software-Scientists-ebook/dp/B014RIJBFA
Amazon has the kindle edition of this available for free from time to time. It's a nice concise little guide.
I use YouTube to learn how to do almost everything. That or I just keep doing it wrong until I get it right or at least some variation of good enough. Usually lifehacker has guides on stuff like that too.
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