Have had trouble with the stoneware mold as well. I can always get it out but the pattern doesn't come out. I have wondered if chilling the doubh in the stoneware before baking would help. Nothing seems to help much, Shirley. Seems kind of catch as catch can, at least for me - sometimes it looks beautiful, sometimes it's mottled. I do know that you want to beat the dough slowly, so as to get as little air into it as possible. And chilling won't hurt, either...

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