I made this tonight and was pretty pleased with it. The dough was pretty sticky but still managed to slide right off the parchment (I have had dough stick to parchment in the past, and it's not pretty). Question: mine didn't rise nearly as much as in the pictures. I only had it in the fridge about 4 hours, so I imagine that's part of it. I just realized I used active dry yeast and didn't proof it; is that likely why it didn't rise as much? I still thought the taste was good! The active dry may have been a little more sluggish; the proofing step is to give the inactive yeast cells a chance to fall away and let the live ones hydrate and get started. So in essence without proofing active dry starts half a lap behind, so to speak. Susan

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