Press One Finger Into Your BREAD DOUGH — 12 Signs Palermo Bakers Read Before the Oven

🍞 EVERY DOUGH OUR BAKERY MADE, WITH THE SIGNS WRITTEN NEXT TO IT 👉 https://nicoferrarokitchen.com/ 👈 Six books from our old Sicilian kitchen: the whole Sunday table, suppers for two, a dough for every season, and what to do with everything that is left over. In my family's bakery, a new boy wasn't allowed to knead for a whole month. He could touch the dough with one finger, and nothing else. By the end of it, he could tell which of forty bowls was ready, without a clock. Your recipe says "one hour, or until doubled." Your dough never read it. And the test everybody knows, the one with the finger, almost everybody reads backwards. The answer you think means "ready" means the opposite. Tell me in the comments: who in your family could tell, from another room, that something in the kitchen was ready, and what gave it away? Subscribe to Nico Ferraro for a new one every week. 🍞 Bake the rest of the year with me 👉 https://nicoferrarokitchen.com/ #breaddough #homemadebread #breadbaking #poketest #sicilianfood #italianamerican #bakingtips #focaccia