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Recently, I've been attempting to grind and sift my own flour. The grinding is straightforward with a Retsel Mil-Rite, an excellent home stone buhr mill or my new Meadows 8-inch stone mill. However, the mysteries of sifting the flour have been less straightforward. A subsequent blog entry will deal with my progress on grinding and sifting my own flour. The sifting project motivates the need for measuring the ash content of my flour.
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Todays bake: 2 Sourdough Ciabatta's, 2 Pizza's, and a Sourdough Focaccia
Well the day is finally winding down, and I think I am done. What a great day it has been. I started off making the kids some home made pancakes from a recipe I found online some time ago. Since they were made from scratch, my youngest calls 'em "Daddy's Scratchy Pancakes". It stuck with the rest of the family as well, so that was their request before they went to bed last night. After the scratchy pancakes were finished off I got to work on my breads.
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- tattooedtonka's Blog
3rd birthday
I just clicked on my profile (I was looking for the sweet potato soup recipe that is on my favorites list), noticed it said "Member for 3 years, 2 hours, " and realized that I started this site three years ago tonight.
Pretty cool. The site has done much better than I imagined it would and been, with very few exceptions, a real treat to manage.
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- Floydm's Blog
A few design changes
I made a few layout changes today. I'm trying to make more efficient use of space without reducing readability.
I also enabled user icons. You now can go to "My Account" and upload a small gif or jpeg to represent you. It will show up on any forum or blog posts you make, as well as in your comments.
Let me know if you run into any problems.
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Italian Bread with half whole wheat flour
I decided to add some whole wheat flour to the italian bread this time.
I wasn't paying attention and left the oven high for a little too long... oops. They're a little dark.
The dark crust didn't adversely affect the flavor, though.
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- GlindaBunny's Blog
The up and downs.
Again I made my quick bread. The treacle whole wheat loaf.
It again was a success! I think I have hit the nail on the head! This time the Whole wheat/white ration was 75 WW and 25 White. I kneaded it for 15 mins and even got a windowpane! *falls over in shock*
Heres a picture of the finished loaf. This time slashed and it rose so beautifully. I could cry!
and a front on with slices shot....
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- Thegreenbaker's Blog
Gift bread
I had promised my grandaughter's teacher a loaf of sourdough and planned to make Susan's loaf, the one baked under the ss mixing bowl. My starter seems to be really hearty and I was pretty confident the loaf would be as good as my latest several. Yesterday was the day, and for some reason the dough didn't have the usual feel and I refrigerated it with trepidation. So while it was warming up for the 2 hours this morning I started a batch of Susanfnp's Semi-Sourdough, thinking that I would use it as back up.
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- AnnieT's Blog
Mold disaster
Maybe disaster is a bit dramatic but I am hoping someone will be able to help me. I was about to shape the boule, using Susan's sourdough recipe, when I noticed tiny black specks in the rice flour coating the linen liner in my banneton. (Pays to out on my glasses once in a while!) Upon further inspection I found that the mold was well established in the linen. Luckily the banneton came with two liners. I hadn't washed the liner because I thought the idea was to get it well seasoned with rice flour and I was very complacent about the fact that my dough didn't stick.
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Amaretto Roulade
I link my photos from flickr...so far it is the easiest way for me work it :S
I have a few contacts on my flickr friends list...all people who saw my photos and decided they wanted to add me. So I add them back :)
One contact posted this most delicious looking recipe. It is in another language, but they also have written it in english below the entry in their native tongue.
It looks absolutely scrummy! So, I thought I'd post a link for those who want to have a look.
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