I make Sourdough crusts and pre bake. Freeze and ready for impromptu dinners! I keep sauce in the freezer in pints and I buy Whole milk mozzarella and Monterey Jack ( can’t get Wisconsin Brick cheese). I use my 1970 sheet pans or my Detroit pans depending on how I feel. It’s all yum.
Well I’m impressed that it’s not a disaster and I learned a LOT along the way.
Never change too many things with a bake at once. CHECK! ( ignored)
Never try to multitask to the point of complete forgetfulness. CHECK! ( ignored)
Be grateful that even though everything went awry the bread is wonderful . CHECK!!!!
We were running short of flaked grains. I have owned the Marcato flaker for a number of years. I have the hand crank version and got it on sale for $89.00 from an online Italian market.
I had looked up how to prep the groats and found the wonderful Food Prepper site , I’ve linked them previously. You use 2tsp of water per 2 c groats, shake several times over the first 30 min then leave covered for 24 hrs. Very important and makes flaking so easy. IF YOU DON’T over water/ wait long enough.
Well I won’t do it again. It stuck a bit in the pan, I believe that’s due to the lack of moisture as I used the same amount of butter as always. I also like the really square shape with the top in place and the texture and color of the top crust with the lid.
The crumb might be a tiny bit more open but not enough to make a difference.
I used the same exact ingredients as the most recent bake before this but I decreased the Arrowhead Mills bread flour to 100g and increased the Spelt to 200g.
Another success story . Even more laissez faire than the last ones. I have been gone 6 weeks . I kneaded enough flour into my stored starter to make a very stiff ball. Put it in a glass jar in the fridge and waved bye bye.
I took it out yesterday and covered with filtered water til it softened. Beat it with a table knife blade til blended. Placed for a few hours in the electric heating pad fermenter beside the 2 qts of yogurt I was making. Removed it took out 80g and added 80g flour. Mixed and placed back in the high tech fermenter 😊.
Off to a good start! Picture resized automatically! Yeah !
This is Maurizio’s original formula with my adaptations which are pretty extensive but I’d never have tried those without his base information.
I used my flaked grains , the last of my Kernza and the rest is my flaked Barley. I subtracted 8% WW flour and made a 2:1 Yudane ( scald) subtracted the water from the overall water. I also used my Trinity 35g each EVVO, Buckwheat honey, homemade yogurt and subtracted that from overall water.
I figured out how to downsize an image. Used my flaked Kernza for my usual porridge bread. It just keeps getting better and better! Amazing tender open crumb. I took advantage of the information others posted to get more flavor out of the porridge step and just poured boiling water on the flaked grain and didn’t cook further. Worked perfectly.
