The article explores creative ways to decorate bread dough using natural vegetables, with a focus on cabbage leaves as an innovative alternative to traditional scoring techniques. Cabbage leaves can be pressed onto the dough before baking, resulting in stunning patterns without imparting any cabbage flavor. Other vegetables like asparagus, carrot tops, and dehydrated citrus slices are suggested as potential substitutes, emphasizing the importance of choosing thin, sturdy options. This technique is versatile, applicable to various types of bread and is a fun way to incorporate vegetables into baking.
Anyone on social media has seen countless loaves of bread decorated with intricate scoring patterns. Wheat stalks, hashtags, leaves, trees - almost anything you can think of has been delicately sliced into proofed bread dough before being baked.
A single leaf from this cruciferous vegetable is venous and sturdy enough to be pressed on top of bread dough. In the oven, the dough will rise and press up against the cabbage leaf.
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