Life’s been a bit busy so I’m only sharing some food photos today.
Halloumi gassi with paniyaram (yes, paneer not Halloumi is used traditionally)
Scrambled eggs with tomatoes with plain jasmine rice. My kind of comfort food :)
It’s my first blog post here, I’ve asked a few questions before and lurked a lot but thought I’d post a loaf for the first time! Here’s a simple 50% whole-wheat from the weekend.
The wheat is an organic/biodynamic milling wheat from Four Leaf in South Australia and was milled at home on my Retsel Mil-Rite. The other 50% is an organic bakers flour.
The levain was fed 1:3:3, with a blend of fresh milled rye and organic bakers flour and left to ferment for ~4hours.
It was time to throw some seeds into some bread again. I checked out my previous methods on adding seeds and decided to go with a dry seed addition rather than using a soaker. It seems that I got a more open crumb doing this rather than doing the soaker. Hopefully, this holds true.
Recipe
Makes 3 loaves
Seed Add-ins
70 g Sunflower seeds
50 g Sesame seeds (I used half black and half white)
50 g freshly ground flax seeds
30 g Amaranth seeds
30 g Buckwheat groats
15 g Millet seeds
I was inspired by Janet Cook's gorgeous bake back in 2013 and decided to give it a go. I used my Farmer Ground Flour high-extraction bread flour. The hydration of this loaf is 80%. They smell absolutely amazing! I didn't pre-soak the poppy seeds so the dough felt pretty dry for 80% hydration and I might increase the water slightly next time. I think the crumb is decent for 100% T85.
Final dough:
I made one HUGE loaf with sauteed shallots and cornmeal porridge (50g of cornmeal and 235g of liquid). Excluding the cornmeal porridge, this loaf was 76% hydration, but with the cornmeal it was an extremely wet dough and a bit tough to handle, but the coil folds and lamination added a lot of strength. The hydration definitely pushed my limits!
Final dough:
Another summer gone, and another summer away from baking. Prior to taking my bake break, I mentioned to my Barcelona friends that upon return, I would also return to complete some unfinished tritordeum business. That being to use the grain in a ciabatta. My recent go-to ciabatta formula is a modified version of Scott MeGee’s biga based dough.
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moves well by hand not motor. Bowl in good condition. Markings underneath say 543 some part that is unreadable.
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We have a vintage bread mixer Touquoise but no motor. I find 534 marked on bottom
is there a market for this or does it become metal scrap.
I had planned on making a yeast water bread with a YW I made using crab apples from my parents' yard. I ended up going away for the weekend, which meant my YW build of 100g YW and 160g bread flour got left on the counter for 26 hours. I didn't think I could use it to make bread at that point so I decided to make a hybrid babka recipe. I used 150g T85, 350g BF, 200g of my YW build, and about 40g of unfed sourdough starter along with 1/2 tsp of active yeast (also 95g sugar, 240g milk, and 2 eggs). I pretty much followed the usual recipe from SmittenKitchen otherwise.
