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Considering I somehow managed not to hit the start button on my stove and baked these at 540°F instead of 450°F, they came out pretty good .

Made with fresh milled whole wheat, spelt, and blue corn flour. Freshly milled corn flour smells amazing and is unlike anything you can buy in the store.

Very pleased. YW levain 80g . T 65 flour requires a lower hydration . First batch was 62.5 % I lowered to 60% and it’s perfect. 

More YW refreshing and will do another batch Sunday. I use my steel and my largest 100 yr old Granite Roaster lid to create a cloche for the first 15 min at 460°. Remove finish for 10 min. 

Butter tarts are famous in Canada (as are Nanaimo bars). Don't know why they never caught on in the US.

A quick post to celebrate the arrival of Autumn and the passing of yet another summer. This one is a variation of my November 2019 post, bread baked then to welcome the arrival of  that year's CSA organic grain harvest share. Now, as then, feeling very blessed and appreciative, especially in these turbulent times, for yet another harvest. 

The can of pumpkin purée that I bought was huge, the grocery stores here only seem to carry a very large size can of it.  So having a ton left I decided I’d see what it does to bread.  I treated it similarly to how I’d treat adding mashed potatoes.  Given how mild pumpkin flavour is, I cooked the purée down a bit to bring out the flavour.  Because I wanted a savory bread and not something that would be sweet, I didn’t add spices to this.  I’m quite pleased with how it baked up.

I invented this cookie dough formula myself! 

Pumpkin, cottage cheese,  Almond flour cookies 

Ingredients:

Dough

3/4 stick unsweetened butter(softened)

1 cup Monk fruit sugar 

1 cup whole milk cottage cheese ( blended until smooth)

1/2 cup (122 g) pure pumpkin puree 

2 TBs pumpkin spice 

1 tsp vanilla extract 

3 LG. Eggs

1 1/4 cup extra fancy semolina (150 g)

1 1/4 cup Almond flour ( 159 g)

1 tsp baking powder 

Pinch salt

Icing

Awhile back I was given some starter and made, among other things, a couple pan loaves. They were fine. Yippee posted a link to Susan's easy sourdough loaf recipes here, (recipe here), and I thought I'd try the 63% hydration. First attempt turned out pretty well. I didn't have a razor blade and couldn't drag a knife across the dough because it was inside a bowl, so the slashes aren't deep enough. The dough came out quite wet for 63%.

I found this recipe in the Globe and Mail.  I’ve never been a huge fan of cheesecake, it always seems like a nothingburger to me.  I was hoping that the pumpkin might make it more interesting.  I think this cheesecake would benefit from spices myself.  This is a Basque style cheesecake in that it has a caramelized top, however, it has a cookie crust as a base which Basque cheesecakes don’t usually from what I understand. 

These turned out well. My wife ate them without complaining. 214 cal. 18 g Protein.

It makes a gooey mess of the blade and an awful lot of raisins on the counter.

I made raisin bread in my old Oster 5838-33, just because Yippee has been doing a fair bit of basic Zo baking this week. This machine--at one time, I had three--consistently turns out nice bread. Recipe came from chatbot, with request for 1-1/2lb loaf and all-milk. Recipe was nothing special. Top crust setting was medium.