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For this week’s Friday bake, Lucy came up with another variation on our sprouted grains experiment.  We are trying to increase the whole sprouted grain amount and still get a 12 hour cold retard without the dough over proofing in the fridge or turning to goo.

We upped the sprouted whole grains to 30% and the 4 grains used were emmer, rye, wheat and spelt.  We really like this combination of grains flavor wise when not sprouted and we hoped the taste would even be better when sprouted.

We followed our usual schedule of sprouting on Tuesday, drying and milling the grain on Wednesday along with sifting the milled flour to remove the hard bits to feed to the levain.  This time the hard bits ended up being a 20% extraction.

The levain was built Wednesday afternoon using our normal 3 stage way - with 3 hours for the first 2 stages and 4 for the last one.  We used a heating pad to keep the temp around 84 F since it is now winter the kitchen isn’t 84 F like the summer

In 10 hours, the levain had finished its final doubling and we refrigerated the levain for 24 hours to help bring out more sour since the SD seed was newly refreshed and stored for only 2 weeks in the fridge for this bake.

Home made 100% buckweat soba noodles with tofu in a miso / dashi / turkey stock. and below 80% buckwheat ones

The dough flour was autolysed with the dough liquid with the salt sprinkled on top for 1 hour as the levain warmed up on the heating pad.  Once the warm levain hit the mix we did 3 sets of slap and folds for 8, 1 and 1 minute and 3 sets of strtech and folds – all on 20 minute intervals.

Lemon Curd Bars and Thanksgiving Turkey with lemon slices and herb compound butter under the skin

After a 15 minute rest we pre shaped the dough into a boule and then 10 minutes later did the final shape and placed the dough in a rice floured basket for a 30 minute rest on the heating pad after bagging it.  Then in the fridge it went for a 12 hour retard.

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Don't forget that salad.

By the next morning, it had risen nicely but wasn’t quite at the 90% level we like for white bread. So we let the dough warm up on the counter for 2 hours before un-molding it onto parchment, on a peel, slashing it and sliding it on the bottom 500 F stone and covering it with a heavy aluminum pot we found a Goodwill for a dollar.

After 2 minutes we turned the oven down to 465 F and continued to stem the bread for a total of 10 minutes.  Once uncovered we turned the oven down to 425 F convection and continued to make for another 25 minutes until the temperature hit 210 F on the inside – our standard temperature for sprouted grain bread.

It blistered and browned well but it also spread out 2” in diameter too.  The hydration of 78.6% for a 30% whole grain bread is high but not out of bounds.  I think the reason this spread more than normal is that the half of the white flour was AP instead of bread flour and that sprouted grain bread just spread more by nature.

Still, the spreading dough puffed itself up, sprang and bloomed well enough.  The crumb was open, super soft, moist and a bit glossy.  The contrasting bold bake of the crust that was still a little crunchy after cooling along with the soft crumb was a joy but the taste was really superb.  It is one of those fine tasting breads you would want to eat all the time, - if you could only have one bread to eat.

My 2 babies.

The crumb shots are a little less snazzy then usual but I was at the dentist this morning as the loaf cooled on the rack.  I took the loaf back up to their office and cut the bread into quarters, one for each of them and a slice that I cut up for us to taste. It is always nice to turn folks onto some good bread they normally wouldn’t eat and see their faces light up when they taste it.  It made my day.

 A picture of this Year's Thanksgiving Puff Paste Rugelach - Apricot / Walnut variety shown but the Chocolate Brown Sugar ones seemed to be the hit as always.

2014 Dabrownman’s TFL Blog Index

1/1/2014 - New Year’s Panettone - 2014

1/3/2014 - YW SD Spelt and White Whole Wheat Miche

1/5/2014 -  Saturday Night Pizza - 1/4/2014

1/7/2014 - YW SD ADY Poolish, Tang Zhong Rosemary, Sun Dried Tomato & Parmesan Buns

1/10/2014 - 28 % Whole Multigrain Sourdough with Corn, Potato, Farina and Oat.

1/12/2014 - Saturday Night Calzones – or are they Stromboli’s?

1/17/2014 - Go Tang Zhong Sour Cream, Seeded, Aromatic Sourdough Buns

1/18/2014 - Toady Tang Zhong Multigrain Sourdough Boule

1/23/2014 - Yeast Water and Poolish 42 Percent Whole Multigrain Walnut and Pistachio Bread

1/24/2014 - 50 Percent Whole Multi-grain Sourdough

1/31/2014 - 60 Percent Whole Multigrain Sourdough with Sprouts, Seeds & Yogurt Whey

2/1/2014 - 16 % Whole Multigrain SD with Sesame, Flax and Chia Seeds

2/7/2014 - Dark Russian Jewish Rye Bread with Porter, Prunes, Nuts and Aromatic Seeds

2/14/2014 - Lucy’s Take on Josh’s Version of Pane Maggiore On Valentines Day - 2 Ways

2/20/2014 - Lucy’s Take on Adri’s Westphalian Rye

2/28/2014 - Un-Smoked Spelt Sprouter with Turkish Figs, Seeds, Aromatics & Some Nuts

3/5/2014 - Poolish Calzones and Yeast Water Italian Bread

3/7/2014 - White SD Bread

3/14/2014 - St Paddy’s Day Challenge YW Shamrock on a !00% Whole Wheat SD Chacon

3/21/2014 - Too Pooped To Pop - 56.5 Percent Whole Multigrain Sourdough

3/26/2014- 107% Whole Grain 8 Grain Sourdough

4/4/2014 - 50 Percent Whole Grain 10 Grain Sourdough – One with Cranberries and Seeds

4/6/2014 - Poolish Naan

4/11/2014 - Plotziade Sourdough Chacon

4/13/2014 - Yeast Water Poolish Pizza

4/15/2014 - Lucy’s Take On Wolfgang Puck’s Passover Gefilta Fish

4/17/2014 - Banana Bread

4/18/2014 - Sourdough Hot Cross Buns - 50% Whole Grain

4/19/2014 - Pizza Civitavecchia

4/20/2014 - Last of the Easter Sourdough Bakes Turns Ugly in a Tasty Way

4/21/2014 - Re-Do of the Last Easter Sourdough Bake for BBQ

4/22/2014 - Sacaduros - 46 Percent Whole Grains

4/23/2014 - Half Whole Grain SD Garlic Naan, Onion and Cilantro

4/25/2014 - Seeded Sourdough Multigrain Chacon

5/2/2014 - Everyday 7 Grain Sourdough

5/6/2014 - Cinco de Mayo - 2014

5/9/2014 - Getting Ready for Ploetziade 2

5/16/2014 - Boule and Pumpernickel for Plotziade 2

5/23/2014 - 10 Grain 50 Percent Whole Grain Sourdough - Back To The Old Sourdough Ways

5/26/2014 - Memorial Weekend Pizza - 2014

5/30/2014 - 67% Whole 10 Grain Baguettes

6/6/2014 - Spelt, Farro, Rye and Wheat Sourdough – 50% Whole Grain

6/9/2014 - Italian Yeast Water Buns

6/11/2014 - Italian Style YW Pizza

6/13/2014 - No……. Not Those Pharaohs

6/17/2014 - Calzones and Triple Levain Madness

6/20/2014 - Götz von Berlichingen Ancient Age Sourdough Bread

6/23/2014 - Yeast Water Whole Grain Breakfast Rolls w/ Snockered Fruit and Dark Chocolate

6/27/2014 - Lucy’s Take on Einstein’s Swabian Potato Bread - Schwäbisches Kartoffelbrot

7/4/2014 - 4th of July – 15 Grain Independence Sourdough Challenge Bake

7/11/2014 - 3 Sprouted Grain SD with One No Sprout

7/14/2014 - Lemon and Corn Pie - Old Southern Favorite - Chess Pie

7/18/2014 - Sprouted Multigrain Potato Sourdough with Spelt, Rye, Emmer and Wheat

7/23/2014 - Pesto and Sun Dried Tomato Multigrain Pizza Focaccia

7/25/2014 - 6 Grain Fennel and Fig Sourdough

8/1/2014 - Sprouted Pa de Pagès Català Sourdough

8/8/2014 - Sprouted 4 Grain Sourdough Chacon with Whey, Walnuts and Sage

8/15/2014 - Lucy’s Sorta Tzitzel Like Sprouted Sourdough

8/22/2014 - No Knead Sprouted Spelt, Barley & Potato Sourdough

8/25/2014 - Poolish Pizza Without Daughter

8/20/2014 - Sprouted Spelt, Barley, Rye and Wheat Sourdough with 5 Seeds and Brazil Nuts

9/11/014 - Spelt and Wheat Sourdough with Figs, Pistachios, Pumpkin and Sunflower Seeds

9/18/2014 - 20% Multi - Whole Grain Sourdough - Lucy's 44 Hour Fat Bags

9/19/2014 - Lucy's Fruit Stupid -Version 2

9/23/2014 - Knishes

9/25/2014 - Porter, Prune & Walnut Multigrain SD Bread with a No Fruit No Nut Potato Water Version

9/28/2014 - Pie Parade

10/1/2014 - Cherry Yeast Water Buns.

10/3/2014 - Cherry Yeast Water Sourdough Italian Bread with Apricots, Seeds and Nuts

10/10/2014 -Cherry YW Sourdough Italian Boule with Apricots, Seeds and Nuts - Version 2

10/16/2014 - Yeast Water and Poolish Pizza

10/16/2014 -11 Grain, YW / Sourdough Enriched Buns

10/17/2014 - 11 Grain, YW / Sourdough Chacon with Apricots, Seeds and Nuts - Version 3

10/23/2014 - Lucy’s YW & SD Holiday Fruitcake

10/30/2014 - Multigrain SD Sprouted 2 Ways

11/7/2013 - Sprouted Multi Farro SD

11/26/2014 - Thanksgiving Sourdough Bread for Stuffing

2013 The Fresh Loaf Dabrownman’s Blog

1/4/2013 - Panettone - The Last Bake of 2012

1/4/2013 - New Year's Day Pizza and Banana Bread Cupcakes

1/5/2012 - Hanseata’s Sausage Filled Puff Pastry with Cheese

1/7/2013 - Multi-grain Cream Cheese Sourdough with Multi-grain Scalded Soaker

1/11/2013 - Multi-grain Sourdough Chacon with Olives, Sun Dried Tomato, Garlic, Rosemary and 2 Cheeses

1/16/2013 - Multi-grain Sourdough with Sprouts, Scald, Seeds, Nuts and Prunes

1/17/2013 - Multigrain Yeast Water Bread with Sprouts, Scald, Seeds, Nuts and Prunes

1/23/2013 - White Whole Wheat with Combo YW, Poolish, SD Starter, Water Roux and Wheat Berry Scald

1/25/2013 - SD, YW, Biga, Rye, Spelt, Tang Zhong Bread with Scald, Seeds and Nuts

1/30/2013 - Practice YW Slash Bag

1/31/2013 - Origami Sourdough and Yeast Water Panettone

1/31/2013 - Another Batch of kjknits English Muffins – 12.5 % Whole Wheat

2/1/2013 - Fun With Short Crust and Puff Paste

2/1/2013 - Phil’s Savory Pumpkin and Feta Pie

2/2/2013 - A Born Loser Tells a Tale of Too Many Two’s and the Evil Twin

2/3/2013 - Superbowl Pizza – Great Pizza For a Lights Out, No longer a Blow Out Game

2/3/2013 - It's Been Exactly a Year Since Our First TFL Post - The Index

2/5/2013 - Multigrain SD/YW Brown Bread with Aromatic Seeds and Multi-Grain Scald

2/7/2013 - Big Combo Levain Whole Wheat Bread with Pumpkin & Sunflower Seeds

2/11/2013 - Not So Pink Valentine Vienna Chocolate Rose

2/13/2013 - Sourdough Pink Valentine Hamburger Buns

2/15/2013 - Yeast Water Cinnamon Rolls

2/18/2013 - Multigrain SD Altamura - Not The Priest's Hat

2/21/2013 - Banana Bread

2/26/2013 - Old Dough VS Levain Multigrain SD With Bulgar and Flax Seed Scald

2/28/2013 - 100 % Whole Grain Rye and Spelt YW SD with Scald and Seeds - The Altus Test

3/5/2013 - SD YW Durum, Ricotta Bread with Pistachio Nuts, Pumpkin & Millet Seeds

3/12/2013 - http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/32637/more-you-want-know-about-labs-and-yeast%26favtitle=More%20than%20you%20want%20to%20know%20about%20Labs%20and%20Yeast

3/13/2013 - SD YW multi-grain Bagels

3/17/2013 - Enchanted Irish Lemon Curd Fairy Cakes

3/18/2013 - St. Paddy’s Day Feast, Sort of Ballymaloe 100% WW Brown Bread and Irish Ruben’s

3/20/2013 - If Ballymaloe Baked Sourdough Brown Bread with WW Scald & Guinness in a DO

3/23/2013 - WW SD YW Multi-Grain Pumpernickel

3/25/2013 - 50% Whole Wheat Matzoh

3/30/2013 - Hot Cross Buns - 25 % Whole Grain

3/31/2013 - Poolish & Y W Chocolate Walnut Easter Babka with Streusel & Snockered Fruits

4/2/2013 - 100 Percent Whole Multi-Grain Aroma Bread with 2 Soakers & 11 Seeds

4/4/2013 - Whole Grain DaPumpernickel Aroma Bread

4/8/2013 - Two Way 75% White Bread - DaPumperized with Scald and Seeds

4/12/2013 - Italian Tang Zhong, Fig, Hazelnut & Ricotta Cheese Sourdough Chacons

4/14/2013 - Dinner for 2 from the Pots

4/19/2013 - Fig Water, Multigrain, Apricot, Walnut, Whole Wheat Sprouter

4/24/2013 - Tang Zhong, Ricotta, Scalded Multigrain with and without, Cranberries & Pecans

4/30/2013 - They Call Me Mellow Yellow

5/3/.2013 - I Got the No White Bread Blues

5/5/2013 - Happy Cinco de Mayo - Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

5/7/2013 - Lucy's Jewish Deli Rye - Take 1

5/15/2013 - Dark Russian Jewish Deli Rye with Porter, Onion, Sprouts and Aromatic Seeds.

5/16/2013 - Whole Wheat and Spelt Sourdough with Sprouts and Seeds

 5/17/2013 - Friday Pizza Night

5/21/2013 - SD and YW Emperor Franz Joseph Buns with Same Dough Challah

5/24/2013 - Multigrain SD with Japanese Black Rice, Seeds, Prunes & Dried Edamame

5/24/2013 - YW & Poolish Hot Dog Buns

5/30/2013 - Ezekiel's Chacon

6/6/2013 - Multigrain Sourdough with Scald, Seeds and 3 Nuts

6/10/2013 - White Hamburger Buns Turned Dark

6/14/2013 - Multigrain Combo Levain with Seeds & Sprouts

6/18/2013 - It all started out simple enough

6/21/2013 - Everyday Multigrain Sourdough with Scald

6/25/2013 - Yeast Water, Tang Zhong Hot Dog Buns

6/28/2013 - Buttermilk and Greek Yogurt Multigrain SD with Seeds and Sprouts

7/5/2013 - Snails with Tails

7/8/2013 - Yeast Water and ADY Hot Dog Buns

7/12/2013 - Multigrain Caramelized Pickled Veggies, Parmesan, Flax & Sesame Seeds, Barley Boil & Toadish Sourdough

7/19/2013 - Whole Multigrain Sourdough Loaf

7/21/2013 - Saturday Night Pizza

7/26/2013 - 75% Extraction Mulit-grain Sourdough

8/2/2013 - Prince George's Chacon

8/9/2013 - Sourdough Tzitzel

8/12/2013 - Yeast Water 70% Whole Grain English Muffins

8/14/2013 - 100 % Whole Multi Grain, Yeast Water & Sourdough Bagels

8/16/2013 - 99.89% Whole Grain Sesame & Flax Seed Sourdough with Whey

8/22/2013 - Too Fast - Poolish Cream Butter Buns

8/23/2013 - Multi-grain Sourdough with Figs, Walnuts, Whey and 4 Seeds

8/26/2013 - Lucy’s Fruit Stupid - Nutella, Peach, Plum and Plantain Pizza and No Fruit Bagels

8/28/2013 - Lucy’s Take on Cleo’s and Ian’s Hamburger Buns

8/30/2013 - Multigrain Sourdough with Sesame and Flax Seeds Toadies and Malts

8/31/2013 - Three Levain Friday Night Pizza Night - With a Surpise Ending

9/4/2013 - Happy Rosh Hashanah – A Holiday Challah

9/6/2013 - Tzitzel – Take 3 with Triple Levain

9/6/2013 - For those who wanted "Aunt Beverly’s Sweet and Hot Brisket'

9/7/2013 - Meat Week

9/11/2013 - Yeast Water 35% Whole Wheat Hamburger Thins and HD Buns

9/13/2013 - Pistachio, Prune and Pumpkin Seed Multigrain Sourdough with Malty Toads

9/20/2013 - Hanseata Multigrain SD YW and Sunflower Seed Challenge Bread

9/27/2013 - The 100% Whole Grain, Multigrain - Mashed by Melon Test - 3 Ways

10/4/2013 - Whole Multigrain SD Bread with Scald, Seeds and More Aromatic Seeds

10/7/2013 - Multigrain Old Sourdough Makes 2 Retarded Pizzas

10/11/2013 - B…..B….B…. Babka - the Yeast Water Way to Gugelhuph Land

10/11/2013 - Prunish Multigrain Sourdough with Scald and Seeds

10/14/2013 - Poolish Buns the Girls Actually Like and Smoked Brisket Sandwiches

10/17/2013 - Mice Guarding the Punkin

10/18/2013 - 20% Whole Grain 9 Grain Sourdough

10/18/2013 - Pumpkin Nutella Swirl Bars

10/25/2013 - Lucy is Runner Up with Her Mice Guarding the Pumpkin Entry

10/25/2013 - Same Dough Two Ways with a Pizza Crust Later

10/27/2013 - Saturday Night 6 P’s SD Focaccia Romana Pizza

10/29/2013 - YW Primer

11/1/2013 - Owlloween White Buns made with a Poolish & SD Levain

11/1/2013 - 38 % Whole Grain Multi Grain SD with Sprouts, Pumpkin and Sunflower Seeds

11/6/2013 - What is the Best Thing You Can Put On Pumpernickel?

11/9/2013 - 15 % Whole Grain SD and YW Orange, Cranberry Walnut Bread

11/15/2013 - Almost Twin White Breads - One YW / SD and One SD

11/15/2013 - YW & SD 50% Rye with Scald, Onions & Young’s Double Chocolate Stout

11/17/2013 - Lucy’s YW White Bread for Thanksgiving Croutons

11/22/2013 - Mini's 100% Hydration Rye, Walnut and Seed Bread with Soaker Water & Dopplebock

11/22/2013 - CeciC’s Crackers with Added Yeast Water.

11/25/2013 - Two Thanksgiving Pies and the Blog Index

11/30/2013 - Josh’s Thanksgiving and Hanukkah Stollen

12/6/2013 - Big Levain Multigrain Sourdough with Figs, Seeds, Potato & Poolish

12/7/2023 - Sinclair’s Bakery Potato Rolls - Made With Poolish

12/12/2013 - Half Whole Multi-Grain Sourdough with Fax & Sesame Seeds

12/12/2013 - Christmas Chocolate Chunk Cherry Chacon

12/12/2013 - Holiday Puff Paste Heath Bar and Chocolate Chip Rugelach

12/17/2013 - Not So Stollen – Christmas 2013

12/19/2013 - 3 Christmas Fruit Cakes - One For Everyone

12/21/2013 - Friday Night SD YW Pretty Plain Pizza

12/22/2013 - Panettone Forced English Muffins

12/23/2013 - White SD YW Bread with Walnuts for Christmas Turkey Stuffing

12/25/2013 - Christmas Fruit Cake – SD YW Gold Rush Take 2

12/26/2013 - Arizona Christmas Tree and Blog Index

2012 The Fresh Loaf Dabrownman’s Blog

2/3/2012 - My first bread after joining TFL - DSnyder's San Joaquin

2/3/2012 - Brachflachen Mehrere Vollkombrot

2/3/2012 - Loaded Pizza

2/3/2012 - Pierre Nury meets DSnyders SFSD

2/3/2012 - Putting the Rye in Pierre Nury's rustic Light Rye

2/3/2012 - Too Many Red Pears and Blueberries

2/3/2012 - Make your own Greek yogurt

2/4/2012 - Minneola / Apple Yeast Water Semolina Bread

2/4/2012 - Raspberry SD Pancakes

2/4/2012- 1930's Magnalite Wagner Ware Roaster Used As Cloche for Multi-grain SD Challah

2/5/2014 - Sourdough English Muffins

2/5/2012 - Southwest Hummus Anyone?

2/5/2012 - I have some miscellaneous baking and foodie

2/7/2012 - Brachflachen Mehrere Vollkombrot - Version 4

2/7/2012 - Baked off PiPs (Phil's) new post on 40% Sourdough Rye w/ Caraway today

2/9/2012 - The Chellos - that don't play music.

2/9/2012 - PiP's 40% Rye w/ Caraway Meets Hanseata's Seeds and a Restless dabrownman

2/9/2012 - Whole Wheat Crusted Apple Caramel Galette w/ fresh ginger and assorted bourbon dried fruits.

2/9/2012 - Blueberry SD pancakes this time,

2/10/2012 - How to Make Yogurt - 'So Your Muffins Taste Betta'

2/10/2012 - isand66's SD Avocado Bread Meets Its Sunflower Seeded Guacamole Heart

2/11/2012- I Confess My Deepest Darkest Baking Secret

2/13/2012 - isand66's Bacon, SD, Potato, Onion with Cheddar Bread Meets Pork Jowls, Aged White Cheddar, Potato Flakes and Caramelized Onion

2/13/2012 - Shiao-Ping's Orange Turmeric Pain au Levain with Yeast Water

2/14/2012 - Happy Valentine Cupcakes w/ Strawberry Hearts

2/16/2012 - PiPs Walnut and Sage 100% Whole Wheat.

2/17/2012 - Let's Make Some Fresh Cheese

2/17/2012 - Birthday Chocolate Crusted Orange Cheese Cake with Ganache, Truffles and Chocolate Shavings

2/18/2012 - David Snyders' SD Pugliesi Capriccioso With Some WW and Rye

2/22/2012 - teketeke's Japanese Yeast Water White Sandwich Bread - 'This Bread Is Not Your Slimy Old White Slice'

2/23/2012 - Pips Vollkornbrot - Nearly 100% Rye with A Tiny Bit of Spelt

2/24/2012 - teketeke Bread

2/27/2012 - Rustique Pain Comté de San Francisco

3/1/2012 - Chad Robertson's Country SD - Modified

3/1/2012 - I've been working on a new home made Gas Regeneration BBQ /Smoker

3/3/2012 - Miscellaneous stuff at the end of the week

3/5/2012 - Pain Rustique au Levain du Sud-ouest

3/6/2012 - Pain Rustique au Levain du Sud-ouest - Retarded

3/7/2012 - Yeast Water, Rye, WW, Garlic Chive, Onion, Cheese and Chorizo Bialy’s

3/12/2012 - Tartine Everyday Rustic Country Sourdough

3/14/2012 - St Paddy's Day Dutch Oven Sourdough - Tartine Method

3/14/2012 - Corned Beef and Cabbage - 2 ways - possibly more

3/15/2012 - Just look at the pictures my new old camera takes!!

3/17/2012 - Yeast Water, Glazed, Spiced, Walnut, Bourbon Fruit, Chocolate Chip, Almond Granola Streusel Polish Babka

3/23/2012 - Making Red Rye Malt

3/24/2012 - Gingered, Tres Apple, Almond, Vanilla Granola Crisp with Bourbon Dried Fruit

3/29/2012 - A Blend of Seigle d’Auvergne and Borodinski

3/29/2012 - Jam and Bread Crust and Crumb Color

3/31/2012 - Revising isand66's Bacon, Potato, Onion with Cheddar Sourdough Bread

4/1/2012 - Getting Ready for Tomorrow's Sweetbird Buckwheat Apple SD Bake with Buckwheat SD Pancakes Today

4/2/2012 - Dabrownman Butchers Sweetbird’s Lovely Buckwheat, Apple and Apple Cider, Buckwheat Groat Bread with Insane Thoughts and Deeds

4/9/2012 - Super-grain Challah w/ Whey Water, Sprouts, Potato, Lentil, Sunflower Seeds and 2 Starters - SD and YW

4/10/2012 - Retarded Super-Grain Challah

4/14/2012 - Lemon Curd and Cream Cheese Puff Paste

4/14/2012 - Italian Corner - Cellos with Squash Lasagna and David Snyder's Pulgliese Capriosso

4/15/2012 - 20% Rye and WWW Potato SD Baggies Meet the Same Made with YW

4/15/2012 - Weekday Springtime Yeast Water Breakfast at Dabrownman's

4/17/2012 - Apple and Pear, Bourbon Dried Fruit, Ginger with Apple Jam Cream Cheese Puff Sleds

4/19/2012 - Sweetbird's Apple, Buckwheat with Groats, Insanely Modified, Makes for a Fine Toast or Lunch

4/20/2012 - SD Hemp Bags - txfarmer method with Hanseata's Seeds

4/20/2012 - Tired Monday's - YW 20% Whole Grain Bag Lunch

4/30/2012 - 50% Multigrain SD W/ Rye Scald, Rye Sprouts, Borodinski Altus and Pepitas, Caraway and Flax Seeds

5/2/2012 - Yeast Water Fake Pretzel Rolls

5/4/2012 - With Cinco de Mayo Yesterday - Hope You Had a Happy One! Cinco Sunset, Moon Rise and Dinner

5/8/2012 - Multi-grain SD w/ Multi Sprouts 2 Nuts and Seeds Somewhere

5/9/2012 - Yeast Water Hamburger Buns with Cinnamon Roll Same Dough Kicker

5/11/2012 - 1 - Day Multi-Grain Bread, Soft White Wheat, Spelt, Scald and Seeded with SD and YW Combo Starter

5/12/2012 - Banana Bread Cake

5/14/2012 - Mothers Day YW Apple, Pecan Buckwheat Pancakes with a Nice Chicken and Brie Sandwich for Lunch

5/15/2012 - Altamura Shaped Semolina Multi-Grain SD with Seeds and Sprouts

5/16/2012 - Having the daughter

5/18/2012 - Semolina, Rye, WWW Ciabatta w/ Chia Seeds, Herbs and Sun Dried Tomato

5/20/2012 - Apple Strawberry Ginger Crisp, Teriyaki and Lunch for Two

5/22/2012 - txfarmer's Croissant and Dainish Converted over to SD and YW - 3 Ways with Chia Seeds

5/24/2012 - Pretzel Roll P&J and Grilled Chicken Lunch with Pickles

5/25/2012 - Hanseata’s Wild Rice SD w/ Yeast Water, Multi Seeds, Prunes, Beer and Sprouts

5/26/2012 - Brown Plate Special with a Little Green, Brown Ale and Brown Bread

5/28/2012 - T-Rex Meets Floyd’s Sweet Potato Bread & Brownman’s SD & YW Combo Starter

5/29/2012 - Bread Baskets - A Serious Illness Revealed

5/31/2012 - Recent Breads for Lunch, Last Jacaranda Bloom and Desert

6/1/2012 - 40% Whole Multi-grain SD and YW Altamura Style Chacon

6/1/2012 - 24 Hours of Not Baking Bread

6/8/2012 - The SD / YW Chacon Revisited – 90% Whole Grain, Multigrain Sprouts, Walnut and Sage Paste, Pumpkin Seeds and Whey Water

6/9/2012 - Friday night P & P - Pizza and Pide

6/12/2012 - Let's Have Some Lunch and Other Stuff

6/15/2012 - Jasmine Tea, 50% Whole Multi-Grain SD & YW Durum Atta Bread with Wheat Germ, Flax and Chia Seeds

6/19/2012 - Buckwheat 60% Multi-grain YW / SD Bread with Walnuts, Sage, Flax, Wheat Germ, Apples, Prunes and Groats

6/21/2012 - Sourdough Durum Atta Bread – Pharaoh’s Mastaba Style

6/24/2-12 - Twisted Sisters Chacon : 67% Whole Rye & Wheat with Sprouts & Seeds.

6/28/2012 - Franko finally got to the top of the list

6/29/2012 - English Muffins - kjknits Converted to YW and SD Combo levain

6/29/2012 - Without Cheesecake For Desert - There May Be No Need for Bread

6/30/2012 - SD and YW Semolina Cheese Bread and Pizza with Sun Dried Tomato, Rosemary, Mojo de Ajo and Garlic

7/4/2012 - SD and YW Multigrain Bagels - The Stan Ginsberg Method

7/4/2012 - Catching up on some lunches and other stuff

7/4/2012 - Lunches and Other Stuff Continued - Happy Birthday America!

7/5/2012 - YW Naan with Paneer, Green Onion, Cilantro, Garam Masala and Garlic - Plus a Loaf - Added Lunch Shot

7/6/2012 - Joe Ortiz Pain de Champagne with Rye and WW Sprouts

7/10/2012 - Dinner in Houston

7/15/2012 - AZ Monsoon and Breakfast

7/17/2012 - Mocha Chocolate Chip Brownie Ice Cream Sandwiches.

7/20/2012 - What To Eat With That Rustic French Country Sourdough Bread -Smoked Etouffee!

7/22/2012 - SD YW English Muffins - Some Fried As Donuts Per gmabaking With Apricot, Nectarine Ginger Glaze

7/24/2012 - Herbed Bialy's – Multigrain, Caramelized Onion, Chorizo and 4 Cheeses

7/27/2012 - 50% Rye SD Knotted Rolls With Wheat Germ, Barley Scald, Caraway and Sunflower Seeds

7/27/2012 - hanseata's Wild Rice Bread Revisited - 'The Wild One' - w/ Beer, Sprouts, Seeds and Prunes

7/30/2012 - Parade of Sandwiches and Other Stuff

8/5/2012 - YW vs Desem SD - Caramelized Onion, Basil, Bacon, Parmesan Rolls

8/7/2012 - 15% Whole Wheat Bagels with YW and SD Desem Combo Starter

8/11/2012 -YW / SD Olive Bread with Rosemary and Bulgar Scald

8/17/2012 - 100% Whole Grain Rye with Rye Sprouts – YW & SD Combo Starter

7/19/2012 - 25% Whole Wheat English Muffins Revisited - Over and Over Again - kjknits

8/22/2012 - Chacon Catastrophes Moka - Ian’s Mocha Disaster Chacon

8/24/2012 - Multi-Grain SD & YW Combo with Chicken Stock, Soaker & Seeds

8/27/2012 - 35% Whole Grain YW & SD Semolina, Durum Atta White Bread with Soaker

8/29/2012 - Rewind - YW & SD Semolina, Durum Atta, W. Germ, Malts & Honey - Deja Vue

9/2/2012 - Spelt, Rye and Whole Wheat Soudough Boule with Flax Seed, Honey and Malts - A Simple but Tasty Bread

9/5/2012 - 100% Hydration, 100% Whole Grain Kamut Flat Boule with YW and SD Combo Starter

9/7/2012 - Andy’s Roasted Brazil Nut and Prune Bread - Sourdough Variation with WW Scald

9/9/2012 - 8 Hour SD YW Saturday Night Pizza and Friday Shrimp Kabobs

9/14/2012 - 100% Whole Spelt Sourdough at 100% Hydration

9/15/2012 - Happy Rosh Hashanah!

9/20/2012 - 17% Whole Multi-Grain SD / YW Bagels – The Stan Ginsberg Method

9/21/2012 - 57% Whole Grain Multi-grain SD with 20% Seeds and Whey

9/25/2012 -15% Multi-grain Bread With YW and SD Combo Levain

9/28/2012 - 15% WWW Fat Bag with Desem SD Starter ala Ian and Phil

9/28/2012 - English Muffins- YW and SD Levains - 16% Whole Wheat

9/28/2012 - Banana Nut Bread with Seeds, Chocolate and Bourbon Dried Fruits

10/2/2012 - Judy's 45 % Whole Multi-Grain Sandwich Bread

10/6/2012 - 16 % Whole Multi-grain SD Baguettes – txfarmer’s Method only 40 Hours

10/9/2012 - Name Change - Gussied Up Franz Joseph's Emperor Rolls With Seeds

10/13/2012 - Parade of Sandwiches and Other Stuff - Partola Uno

10/14/2012 - Parade de sandwichs et d'autres choses - partie 2

10/14/2012 - Parade of Sandwiches Continues - Part 3

10/15/2012 - Desfile de Sandwiches - Parte 4

10/15/2012 - Parade der Sandwiches - Teil 5

10/17/2012 - World Bread Day - SD Multigrain with Figs, Anise, Pistachios and Sprouts

10/18/2012 - Pierre Nury's Rustic Light Rye with Whole Grain Multi-grain YW / SD Levains and Coffee

10/24/2012 -Tuesday Pizza Night - Crust 3 Ways with 25% Whole Grains

10/25/2012 - San Franciso Sourdough - 15% Whole Grain

10/27/2012 - Extended - SD Starter Experiment - 24 hour Countertop SFSD and a Seeded, Fig and Pistacio

10/30/2012 - Two DO Chacons Couldn’t Be Any Different

11/2/2012 - Two Weeks of Food for Thought - Week one

11/2/2012 - Two Weeks of Food for Thought - Week Two

11/2/2012 - 26% Whole Grain YW / SD Bagels with Sprouts

11/5/2012 - 24 hour 10% Whole Grain SFSD & SD Seeded Fig Bread with Pistachios - 1 g of Starter - No Levain

11/9/2012 - 60% Whole Grain SD / YW Bread With Caraway, Rye Chops, Coffee and Cocoa

11/9/2012 - Prune & Brazil Nut Sourdough with Bulgar Scald, Pumpkin & Sunflower Seeds

11/14/2012 - Not So Stollen

11/16/2012 - Thanksgiving Multi-Grain Marble Chacon

11/20/2012 - SD Stuffing Bread

11/21/2012 - Poolish Stuffing Bread

11/23/2012 - Not So Stollen - Thanksgiving Take

11/23/2012 - Daughter Does French Slap and Folds for Her Poolish Thanksgiving Rolls

11/27/2012 - A Chacon for Eric

12/7/2012 - 75% Whole Grain YW / SD Caramelized Onion, Wild Rice, Sprouts & Baltika Porter Bread

12/14/2012 - Multigrain SD / YW Porter Bread with Roasted Onions, Sprouts, Malts and Seeds

12/17/2012 - Puff Paste Experiments

12/18/2012 - Puffy So Not Rugelach

12/21/2012 - Christmas Sourdough Chacon - Figs, Pistachios and Seeds

12/25/2012 - Christmas Bi-Color Rose - 30% Whole Grain, Pesto and Sun Dried Tomato

12/25/2012 - Not So Stollen - 6 Weeks later

12/29/2012 - 25% Whole Grain Multi-grain Bagels

Every year we bake up a simple bread for Thanksgiving stuffing.  Sometimes it is a poolish, sometimes it is yeast water or a YW and SD combination and sometimes, like this year, it is a simple SD near white bread.

The near 100% hydration levain was built in (3) 4 hour stages to 105 g from 5 g of rye 66% hydration starter that had been retarded for 12 weeks.  Each stage was progressively larger and none was tossed.  The added flour and water was 50 g each and half the flour used for the levain was whole wheat and half was whole rye - 25 g each.  The levain was then retarded for 12 hours after it had doubled.

The whole grains in the levain were 15% of the flour and the dough flour was half LaFama AP and half KA bread flour.  The dough hydration was 67% and the overall hydration was 71%.  The dough flour was autolysed for 1 hour with the slat sprinkled on top.

Yes, this is the basic 1:2, 3 recipe for sourdough and one of my favorites and fabul;ous if retarded.  This ended up being a pretty slack dough for some reason.but it did finally come together after 3 sets of slap and folds of 8, 1 and 1 minute and 3 sets of stretch and folds from the compass points only - all on 20 minute intervals.

After a 10 minute rest it was pre-shaped into a longish batard and then final shaped to fit into the rice floured, cloth lined basket.  Before it when in seam side up I did lightly flour the top of the dough knowing, since it was so wet, that it would stick otherwise.

I put the bagged basket on a heating pas and proofed it at 82 F for 6 hours.  The oven was preheated to 550 F with Mega Steam placed on the bottom rack.   Once the dough was un-molded onto parchment on a peel, It was so warm and wet it immediately started to spread. The batard was slashed 3 times and slid onto the bottom stone for 12 minutes of steam. 

2 minutes later the oven was turned down to 450 F for the final 10 minutes of steam.  Once the steam came out, we turned the oven down to 425 F - convection and baked the bread for another 10 minutes until it read 210 F on the inside when it was removed to a cooling rack.

It sprang, bloomed and browned nicely for being so spread out.  It smelled great when it came out of the oven too.  The crust came out thin and crisp but it did go soft by the next morning  The crumb was nicely open, moist, glossy and soft. The taste was lnot quite medium sour and more so the next morning.  This bread is better if retarded from a taste point of view and very close the old style SFSD of yore.

This bread is perfect for this year’s Thanksgiving stuffing.  After having a couple of slices toasted with butter and jam for breakfast this morning, my wife pinched half it for gifting at work.  This is her kind of bread!.  Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!

Lucy kept working on her sprouted grain experiments this week.  These little chatted berries have turned out to be a different can of worms when it comes to how bread flours usually perform.  This makes them fun to play with of a little frustrating at times..

This week we kept the overall 50% whole grains in the mix but upped the sprouted grains to 50% of the whole grains for 38%.  This puts the sprouted grains at 25% of the entire flour mix which puts it on the borderline of turning dough into goo while it is finishing its 12 hour retarded proof in the fridge.

We also limited the variety of whole and sprouted grains to equal parts of the 3 Italian farros: einkorn, emmer and spelt and wheat berries.  To try to compensate for the final flour being on steroids for an enzyme point of view, the levain was  built over 3 stages using all of the sifted out hard bites of the non sprouted home milled whole grain flour and some of the its high extraction majority.

The sprouted home milled flour was also sifted to get the hard bits out but none was used in the levain.  The sprouted hard bits were put into the 1 hour autolyse with the remaining non sprouted high extraction flour and the KA bread flour.  The high extraction sprouted flour was held back from the autolyse to keep it from getting a heads start and was mixed into the autolyse th make the final dough  with the salt and the levain.

We kept the levain to our recent 10% even though the fall AZ temperatures in the kitchen have moderated to the mid 70’s.  No sense tempting fate with more levain mixed with more sprouted grains.  We also kept the hydration right at 85% - our usual amount for 50% whole grain breads.

After 3 sets of slap and folds of 8, 1 and 1 minute and 3 sets of stretch and folds from the compass points all on 15 minute intervals.  The dough still felt a little slack which points to less water being needed for this amount of sprouted grains – they take less water after sprouting than they would otherwise,  With the slack dough feel we hoped that maybe the crumb would be a little more open than last week – especially since there were no whole berry sprouts in this bread.

Thai Green Mein and Thai Green Curry Chicken

Lucy and I went back and forth trying to agree on what add ins we would put in this mix.  I wanted olives to keep with the Italian theme and she wanted cranberries and walnuts to get in the Holiday spirit.  Finally we agreed to not load up the crumb with any goodies at all because we hardly ever bake a bread that just has flour in it and doing so now and again reminds us of how tasty bread can be if left plain – especially when the flavors are so dramatically enhanced woth sprouted grains.

 Ribs too. When the weather finally turns cooler for fall its time for Squash soup made with butternut squash, fresh corn, smoked sausage and wild rice.

So we shaped the dough right after the stretch and folds and put it in a lightly rice floured basket that was oval shaped, bagged it and immediately put it into the fridge for a 12 hour retarded proof with no counter bulk ferment.  Even though the kitchen temperatures have moderated a higher amount of sprouted flour and a long cold proof could be a goo disaster in the making if you give the dough a chance to get a fermenting head start un-moderated on the counter.

In 12 hours the dough had thankfully proofed well enough in the cold but not too much.  It looked like we could let it warm up on the counter for 1 1/2 hours before un-molding, slashing and hitting the Mega steam, 500 F heat of Big Old Betsy’s bottom stone.  In 2 minutes we turned the heat down to 450 F of the remaining 13 minutes if steam.

Once the stream came out we turned the oven down to 425 F convection and continued to bake until the bread hit 210 F – 5 degrees higher than our usual.  We have found that sprouted grain breads need to be baked to a higher internal temperature to compensate for the extra moisture they retain as they bake.

The bread browned nicely to that mahogany color and sported those small blisters we love so much.  It also sprang and bloomed well enough to give Lucy hope the crumb would be as open as she had hoped.  Lucy Lucy - the crumb came through as soft, moist, glossy and tasty.  This might be the best tasting bread Lucy ever baked up.  it is delicious, sour, complex flavors, deep grainy aromas .....We love it.  I hope others will try out sprouted flour breads now that PR's book is out and bringing attention to these fine breads - they deserve a large following..  

Fabulous sunset, an apple pecan galette to go with Lucy's advice to never forget the salad.  

After 3 weeks of baking fruit, nut and seed bread, Lucy had enough of these experiments and decided to go back to another experiment that she wasn’t quite happy with  the last outcomes. This bake goes back to the multigrain SD breads using home sprouted, dried and milled flour but also using the same sprouted multi-grains as whole berries.

We have been sprouting grains to make our own red and white malts for some time and have been using sprouted whole berries in bread for about as long with no problems.  But, when we tried using large amounts of sprouted flour in SD breads using our normal methods, things started to go wrong with gummy crumb, gluten structure breakdown and bread that wouldn’t spring and bloom like it should.

We finally said that if we were going to use our normal long; autolyse, retards of starter, levain and dough that we would have to keep the sprouted whole grains to 15% or less of the total flour if we wanted bread that looked like it should aesthetically.

The thing we liked most about sprouted grain breads is their unique and deep flavor – a taste that we couldn’t get any other way.  So we are going to have to work on a new method to get more sprouted whole grain in the mix without losing the sour, spring and bloom and getting a nice moist and open crumb that wasn’t gummy.

So we cut out the levain build retard and the bulk ferment entirely and cut down the autolyse to 45 minutes (no levain and no salt)  and dough retard down to 12 hours while upping the whole sprouted grain to 20% from 15%.  The overall whole grains remained at 50%.  This batch of 6 multi-grains, sprouted and un-sprouted, consisted of: spelt, einkorn, rye, wheat, Kamut and barley.

We upped the hydration to over 84% (which might have been a point or 2 too high) but it came together well by the end of the 3rd set of slap of folds of 8, 2 and 1 minute.  It quit sticking to the counter at the 8 minute mark and end of the first set.  We incorporated the whole berry sprouts during the first set of the compass point stretch and folds and they were incorporated by the end of the 3rd set.

4 meat chili with Mexican cornbread is perfect when the temperatures finally fall into the 80's during fall.

Once it was shaped and placed in a basket seam side up without any bulk ferment, it was bagged and placed into the fridge for a 12 hour retard.  The next day we took the dough out of the fridge as it looked like it was 80% proofed and would need a little counter time to be just right for baking.

A cool salad goes perfect with hot chili.

After an hour we fired up Big Old Betsy to 500 F and put the Mega Steam in once She beeped saying she was hot.  15 minutes later we up ended the dough onto parchment on a peel slashed it in a square and put the bread on the bottom stone for 15 minutes of steam.  After 2 minutes we turned the oven down to 450 F .

Once the steam was complete it was removed and the oven was turned down to 425 F convection and we continued to bake for another 20 minutes until the boule reached 205 F on the inside.   We left the bread on the stone with the door ajar after the oven was tuned off for 8 minutes to really crisp the crust before removing it to the cooling rack.

This bread turned that deep mahogany color we love so much, sported those little blisters on the skin.  It sprang and bloomed well too showing it hit the oven at about 87.5 % proof.   It is nice when everything comes together with a new recipe on the first go.   .

 Will have to wait on the crumb until later today.  The crumb came out very soft, open and moist,  Even though the bread was baked to 205F and hit 208 F sitting on the stone after the oven was turned off, it could have been baked to 210 F with no worries.  The taste was grand as the crust held its crispy character and the crumb was delightful;.  This is one of those really good breads you just can't get enough of.  Bake some sprouted grain bread to see how good it really is.

This bread made for a fine P&J sandwich with the usual salad, apple fruits and veggies .

Lucy tends to get easily bored and wanted to take up the piano recently to try to be a little more with it and keep herself out of trouble.  I told her no one plays the piano anymore and she should consider taking up the electric guitar…but it turns out electricity scares her as much as lightning and thunder. 

To take her mind off of such things I thought she would enjoy getting the holiday baking schedule going early this year, especially after the GMA’s had done their fruitcakes a couple of  weeks ago now.  Last year Lucy came up with 4 different fruit cakes and we sent some off to friends.

See that little bit of dough peaking through the middle of bowl between the mountain of nuts on one side and snockered fruits on the other?  Not much dough holding thisnall together.

This year, since we are early and still have to bake stollen, I told her to keep it to one fruitcake for now so she upped the size of it to compensate hoping I wouldn’t notice.  You would think she would know who the master is around here by now and no try to hide things like this in the details.

Donlt forget to non stick spray that souffle pan beofre laoding in the dough.

It isn’t often that we get to bake something where the add ins are 800% of the weight of the flour but this one…. is one. Makes one wonder what is actually holding this chock full of stuff thing together and why it doesn’t just explode.  Last year, we didn’t get any rise at all, during proof or in the oven, out of any of those fruit cakes but one was an English version that had no leavening in it at all.

This years Lucy though she would double up on the amount of levain and use both YW and SD to see if any rise would happen.  But, there was none of that to be had.  The only thing is that hopefully the fruitcake will last longer this way – not that it wouldn’t anyway with that much bourbon and brandy in it. 

I know what you’re thinking.  That fruitcake is horrible and there is really only one of them that gets passed around to everyone on the planet hoping some fool will eat it.   Well, this fruitcake is not the one of those.  This one is just plain full of it, what ever it is.

This year the fruits included, pineapple, red and green cherries, orange and lemon peel, citron, prunes, cranberries and 3 kinds of raisins.  All were soaked for days in copious amounts of bourbon and brandy until they soaked all of it up.  The nuts included walnuts and pecans.  The enrichment included; eggs, brown sugar, molasses and butter and the 7 spices used were; cardamom, ginger, mace, nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice and cloves.

There is always a place for a 13 hour smoked pork shoulder to make some pulled pork sandwiches.

The 2 separate levains were built in once stage each and left out to ferment for 10 hours before being retarded in the fridge overnight.  We then let them warm up on the counter for an hour and a half.  This is one of those dump and mix recipes that can be done by hand or in the mixer - with one change - the, fruits and nuts are held back and then mixed in last

Smoked pulled pork served with homemadebiuns, slaw and baked wedge fries.

I’m not sure this makes a difference at all though and you could probably just dump the whole mess in at once and mix away.  I used a spoon and it wasn’t too difficult.  I hate cleaning the mixer and Lucy hates cleaning anything. 

Lucy reminds us never to forget that fine salad!

Then it just gets dumped into a 1 ½ quart soufflé dish for 6 hours of bagged proofing on the counter.  It didn’t rise but at least we gave it a chance. Then in the oven it went for a full 2 hours of baking at 350 F until the middle hits 205 F.

There were a couple of nice sunsets this week to highlight the fact we got the garden planted last week and the 11 pots of greens came up this week.  We also plantd 4 tomato plants - all cherry tomatoes - 2 red, one yellow and one black/putple.

An unusual lunch for us...a shell pasta with meatball, green with blue cheese and potato salads, some avocado and a golden delicious apple.

It came out a little risen in the middle and the top was a dark brown and cracked.   We put some watered down apricot glaze on the top to shine it up.  It smelled terrific as it baked.  This one will have to sit quite a while before we can cut into it.  Then we have ti decide of we want to hooch it up some more as it ages.

The crumb came out nice and moist that you could slice in 1/4" slices.  It is chock full of goodies, very aromatic, fruity, boozy, chocolaty..... it tastes great like a high end fruitcake that Lucy would dream up.  Just delicious.  Now for the stollen....

Formula

Here is the 3rd version of this bread.   Even though none of them have been exactly the same they were close and the main goal was to se if not aging home milled flour for at least 3 weeks would have an adverse effect on the bread if not used within 1 day of milling.

This on was different than the other 2 in several ways.  Less levain was used for this bread.   We did a 21 hour final retard and a 1 ¼ hour warm up on the counter.  This bread had some additional whole grains getting it up to an 11 grain bread from the previous 7 and 8 grain version.

Since this loaf was so big, it wouldn’t fit under our largest DO bottom used as a cloche  so we had to bake it on the stone in BOB using Mega Steam.  We also included the 2 week soaked chia seeds in the autolyse this time instead of adding them in before the slap and folds. 

Lucy voted this the best looking rustic dough ball of the year so far. Another major change was making this larger loaf into a chacon.  The first version rolled out the dough to cut it into strips that were seeded and then twisted twice to make the shape.  All of this handling really seemed to hurt the openness of the crumb.

So we thought that manhandling 40% of this dough to make 2 sizes of balls, a knotted roll for the center and a braided twisted sister rope to surround them would give us a better base line for the crumb to compare to version 1.  We also dipped the middle knot, the smaller balls and the twisted rope in sesame and poppy seeds to give the design some extra character

The two previous versions are found here Cherry Yeast Water Sourdough Italian Bread with Apricots, Seeds and Nuts and here Cherry YW Sourdough Italian Boule with Apricots, Seeds and Nuts - Version 2 if you want to do some comparing.

We followed the same YW and SD levain builds, the autolyse and the gluten development as the previous 2 versions.  But we did the chacone design and final proofed it shaped for 21 hours.

We preheated the oven to 500 F instead of out usual 550 F and baked it under steam immediately at 465 F since the larger the loaf the lower the temperature – if you don’t want to burn it.  We also steamed it longer at 18 minutes rather than our usual 15 minutes due to its size.

When the Mega Steam came out, we continued to bake at 425 F, convection this time, for another 10 minutes when the bread read 208 F on the inside and we removed it to the cooling rack.  Total bake time was 28 minutes - pretty short for a loaf this size.

This bread smelled wonderful as it baked.  It also cracked lightly at the design points showing it was probably a bi over proofed but it browned up to that beautiful mahogany color we love so much   it was crunchy crisp as it came out of the oven too.

We love the outside but will have to wait for lunch to see what the inside looks like.  it looks pretty much like the last bake - version 2.  Open, soft and moist - plus...it is plain delicious for a bread that isn't plain at all.  We love the inside as much as the outside.

Formula

My wife cam home from work last night saying "Did you see tnight's sunset?" I did and took a picture of it

These buns are made with the same flour, YW levain and SD levain as tomorrow’s Version 3 of the apricot, seed and nut bread without the fruit, nut and seed add ins and using milk for the dough liquid, an egg and some butter.

It came in at 45% whole grains and 80% hydration.  The 4 hamburger and 4 sausage buns were egg washed twice with the poppy and sesame seed sprinkled on in between the two.

We followed our recent regimen of making the two levains with long retards for both, a 1 hour autolyse for the dough liquid and dough flour with the salt sprinkled on top.  We did the 3 sets each of slap and folds and stretch and folds over 20 minute intervals and then shaped the dough before retarding it in the fridge for 18 hours.

We warmed them on the counter for 2 hours applied the egg wash and seeds and backed them in BOB at 375 F - convection for 24 minutes rotating them 180 degrees once after 8 minutes and then twice 90 degrees and 180 degrees the next 4 minutes. 

These rolls browned up nicely and were very open and moist on the inside.  I can’t wait to have them for our planned hamburger and sausage dinner tonight.  Lucy thinks she is getting this bun thing down pretty well and can now better compete with her Long Island cohorts who are masters at the bun thing.

Formula

This pizza dough is made from cherry YW but after letting the YW levain made from 40 g each of YW and AP flour ferment for 4 hours a 2nd stage of 25 g each of AP flour and Water was added.  After it had doubled in volume we put it in the fridge for 24 hours.

 The dough really rose in thefridge during the retard.  Right is the dough after deflating, just  before dividing.

When we took it out the nest day to mix it with the AP dough flour and water we added a pinch of instant yeast to the mix.  The dough flour was 240 g of AP and the water added was 145 g with 2% salt.   This made the dough 69% hydration.

After 3 sets of slap and folds and 3 sets of stretch and folds all on 15 minute intervals we bulk retarded the dough for 24 hours.  It easily doubled in the fridge.  We took it out of the fridge 3 hours before ewe wanted to use it and immediately divided it in half in roughly 257 g pieces for two medium individual pies.

Pie 2.

Thus dough was very good to work with – extensible yet strong.  Once the pies were hand formed we brushed on some sun dried tomato, rosemary and garlic infused olive oil and lightly covered the pie with some pizza sauce.  Once the mozzarella went on then came the hot Italian sausage, red pepper, red onion and crimini mushrooms.

Looks better with fresh basil on it:-)

Then came the ricotta cheese that was fortified with pecorino Romano, an egg and s hefty amount of black pepper.  The ricotta was lightly covered with some more mozzarella and pecorino before sliding it and the parchment paper onto the bottom stone into BOB’s (Big Old Betsy) 550 F preheated maw.  These pizzas had fewer toppings and mire cheese than out usual.

The first pie was baked without convection fan for 10 minutes and the 2nd pie was baked with convection fan for 8 minutes.  Both pies baked up about the same, not as bold as our usual though.  Both were nice and thin and very tasty.  The crust was very similar to our favorite poolish Focaccia Romana  we like the best but the ricotta and lack of pepperoni made for a very different tasting pizza – we liked it and there was plenty left over for freezing.

And don't forget the salad that goes so well with any meal including pizza!

 The other difference in the two was that the 2nd one was garnished with fresh basil.  This was a big baking week for us with pizza on Wednesday, MG Rolls on Thursday and the version 3 of our MG 50% whole grain YW / Sourdough with Apricots, seeds and nuts,  That has slightly different grains and amounts of levain.

We are hoping to notice a change in bread because the home milled flour portion was not aged for 3 weeks before using it.  Week 2 was actually better than week one and we will see what week 3 looks like.

We ground 3 times as much whole grain as we needed for the last bake so that we could test the notion that flour has to age after it is ground if not used in 24 hours.  So this bake has the whole grains as the last bake and the same add ins too.  The add ins have been hanging out in the fridge for a week.

Still, Lucy couldn’t help herself and made some changes.  The YW levain was less pink since it was refreshed with white AP flour from last weeks levain left overs that were hanging out in the fridge all week instead making a new one with equal parts of YW and flour.

Instead of making the SD levain with the milled multigrain flour from last week, we used home milled whole rye to make it.  Last weeks bake didn’t have any rye in it at all and to keep the whole grains nearly the same; 50% this week and 55% last week, she thought a little whole rye wouldn’t hurt.

As you can see, this dough was overproofed - hould have baked it straight out of the fridge.

Instead of shaped proofing for 20 hours in the fridge and then letting it proof for 3 hours on the counter for 24 hours total, we did a 21 hour bulk ferment in the fridge and a 12 hour shaped retard too before doing a 1 1/4 hour warm up on the counter before baking for 34 1/4 hours total = 12 hours of cold longer than version 1.  Instead of using apricot soaking and coconut water we used potato water for the dough liquid this time.

Instead of baking on a stone with Mega Steam Lucy decided to bake this one on a stone covered with the bottom of the aluminum DO as a cloche.  She also shaped this one as a boule and the last one was a wreath.  She also put all the poppy and sesame seeds inside this one instead of having some on the out side like the wreath,

But everything else was nearly the same!  We did notice some differences though.  The wreath hardly proofed at all in the fridge over the first 20 hours and this one more than doubled in volume over the 21 hours of bulk ferment.  Why this was the case we don’t know – maybe it was the potato water, rye SD levain and 5% less whole grains?

We did our usual autolyse slap and folds and stretch and folds where the add ins were incorporated just like last time and the temperatures for preheat and baking were the same just like here

Cherry Yeast Water Sourdough Italian Bread with Apricots, Seeds and Nuts

Apple and Plum Galette on a shortcrust pastry.

We left the DO cover on for 20 minutes this time, 5 minutes more steaming time since the dough was stikk cold and the DO is slower to transfer the heat to the dough than the Mega Steam does.  In 30 minutes it was done.

The great thing about balking on a stone and covering with the bottom of a dutch ovenas a cloche is that you don’t have to worry about the bottom burning or dumping the bread out of the DO so it doesn’t burn the bottom.  This is so much easier I don’t use a DO the standard way any more.

It sprang and bloomed OK, and it did brown up nicely, with small blistering, after the lid came off.  It smells terrific.  All those grains, fruits, seeds and nuts mix together to make for a very aromatic bread as it bakes.  Will have to wait for the lunch time to see how the crumb came out.  The crumb came out much more open than version one probably because it wasn't rolled out, cut in strips and twisted twice:-)  It is also more soft and moist too ut no sour like version 1   Tastes the same as version one but maybe more earthy with the rye in there.  Just delicious.  Half of this loaf went to one of  my wife's friends right away. 

The sky was on fire

Formula

Yes!  A two person Chicken Pot Pie

 Lucy says not to forget the salad.