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Spanish Bread

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Bread Flour100%1000g300g
Sugar21%210g63g
Salt1.75%17.5g5.25g
Shortening (butter / Margarine)5%50g15g
Yeast1.5%15g4.5g
Water58%580g17.4g
Milk Powder5%50g15g
  1922.5g 
(30g/ 64pcs)
576.75

Single-rise sourdough: butterable experiments

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As a moderately experienced baker with instant yeast, but an utter beginner at sourdough, my experiments so far extend only to this. If you’re a person who thinks it’s simply not worth baking with sourdough unless you’re going to do a long ferment, slap and fold, and aim for a beautiful free-form artisan loaf, look away now:

200g starter (100% hydration, before feeding)

400g strong white flour

275g water

5g salt

Modified BBA Basic Sourdough ... Higher Hydration

Toast

On Saturday 1-17-2015 I baked this loaf. As I've mentioned previously I've been tinkering with Reinhart's BBA Basic Sourdough recipe. For this bake I aimed for 77% hydration:

 

10.2 oz preferment, 70% hydration

20.25 oz flour:

   1.5 oz Arrowhead Mills Rye flour

   1.5 oz Arrowhead Mills Sprouted Wheat flour

   5 oz KAF AP flour

   5 oz KAF White Whole Wheat flour

   7.25 oz KAF Bread flour

16 oz water

0.5 oz salt

Sourdough Buckwheat Pancake

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a simple, very clean, 4-ingredient pancake. it is wheatfree and perfect for those who are into clean eating and health.

 

1 cup sourdough (mine is a rye, hence wheatfree. sometimes i take two weeks of feeding to convert it fully to buckwheat for gluten-free option)

2 cups wholegrain buckwheat flour

2 - 3 cups of milk (depending on consistency of pancake that you like0

just a small dash of agave nectar. (or omit this if you like)

 

i mix them up, keep it overnight, and cook as you would any pancake!

 

Learning to Love the Long Cold Proof

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A long weekend means just that much more time to experiment with intimidating techniques!

This weekend, I have baked two two-loaf batches of sourdough, using a formula that involves a short bulk fermentation and a long cold proof. 

Levain

50 g starter (I have a rye and a white, and either will work great)

75 g AP flour

75 g water

(200 g total)

Final Dough

Levain

700 g AP fl

100 g WW fl

560 g water (water #1)

20 g water (water #2)

10 g malt/sugar

19 g salt

Any "mix-ins" imaginable, really!

A tale of two loaves

Toast

Bought a pullman pan so I could attempt to make a better version of store bought sandwich bread requested by family members. Used the recipie from K A flour website for small honey oat pain de mie substituting white whole wheat for half the unbleached white.

The Story of Ermintrude

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I've been meaning to start a blog ever since I registered here, but life has got in the way. It's not as if I haven't been baking. Barring a break over Christmas, I have (it's a curious thing that, while the festive season sends many people into a frenzy of baking and cooking, it seems to have the opposite effect on me - I want a break!).