This was a super tasty bread! When dusting my countertop before shaping, I used a mix of cocoa powder and wholewheat flour.
500g Bread flour
200g Spelt flour
100g Rye
700g Water
100g rye starter at 100% hydration
18g Salt
200g Hazelnuts
100g Chopped dates
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My mom made some fillo dough yesterday and gave me some to play around with:
The first picture is of traditional nut baklava. I made a paste of walnuts and orange blossom water.
This dough was pretty hard to work with and the crumb and oven spring wasn't as exciting as my other loaves, but I think it is my new favorite bread. The flours I used are white bread flour and 20% wholewheat. I'll probably add more wholewheat or grain to this dough next time. Since a 50% wholewheat dough at 88% hydration would be much easier to work with than a 20% wholewheat at 88% hydration.
Here are the process pictures:
This is a 50% wholewheat loaf at 83% hydration!
I rolled the final dough after shaping into a bowl of sesame and poppy seeds so the loaf has a uniform crust all over.
226g bread flour
210g wholewheat flour
355g water
55g wholewheat starter at around 100% hydration
9g salt
Directions:
Mix all the ingredients minus the salt and starter in a bowl until all the flour is dry. Leave to hydrate for a few hours. Sometimes I let autolyse overnight in the fridge.
I fermented this guy for about 24 hours total (7hrs on the counter after mixing, 13hrs in the fridge, 4hrs proofing) which I knew was a lot for this batch but it was the only way I could fit it into my schedule. Anyway the smell of the dough and bread is so beyond words amazing. The bread has a great flavor, and though overproofed, the crumb is soft and chewy.
I made these cookies using my great aunt's famous secret recipe. It feels like a betrayal to post it here but it also feels like a betrayal to post this picture without adding a recipe so if anyone is interested, let me know and I'll post in the comments. These are so good and highly requested that my aunt, no matter how old and tired she gets, makes over twenty batches during the holidays and gifts them to friends, family, and neighbor. Growing up I'd sit on the kitchen floor with her for hours and decorate and snack on hundreds of these.
