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Wheat and Walnut

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Walnut Wheat:

 

This week's loaf is about 50% whole wheat with walnuts mixed in (my first loaf with goodies in it!)

Overall Ingredients/percentages:
266.7g white flour (50%)
250g whole wheat (46.875%)
16.7g rye flour (3.125%)
416.7g H2O (78.125%)
11g salt (2.0625%)

Thursday evening: feed leaven

Leaven:
80% hydration
20% Medium Rye flour
80% AP flour
plus mature starter

Bread journal -- prehistory (what I've been doing)

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No idea if this is the right place to do this, but I want to start keeping better track of my bakes. Before I start, I want to clear my brain of the hazy memories from the past couple months of bread baking.

Phase 0: Bob's Red Mill loaves

On a whim I decided to try baking bread from one of the bagged kits from Bob's Red Mill. Multi-grain, or 9 grain, or something like that. Throw the ingredients in the Kitchen Aid, follow the instructions, and tasty bread results! 

Phase 1: Whole Wheat Sandwich loaves