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60% White SD Biga Loaf

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I've made Abel's 90% Biga loaf several times since he published it and in my view it's a TFL classic. However, although I've had great results with the yeasted version, I've never had success with the sourdough one.

Hydration Fun- Plus Reinhart San Francisco Sourdough

Toast

I don't have pictures of everything- but I've been baking (a lot) and wanted to do a side by side comparison of Reinhart's Crust and Crumb San Francisco sourdough versus King Arthur Flour's no knead sourdough. I last made both at different times and with different skill levels. Time for a show down on even playing ground.

The contenders: Reinhart Crust & Crumb San Francisco Sourdough

No idea now!

Toast

Ok so have had this going for close on a week, 1st day had massive rise then posted on here and was told it was too wet.....added flour to thicken waited 24hrs then back to 100g starter and 50g flour and 50g water......this is what I have 2 days after “saving it” am I on track or do I scrap and start over!? 
many help is magnificent!!!

Sweet potato brioche

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I used these buns to make kimchi-brined chicken sandwiches from seriouseats. Honestly the buns might've been better appreciated on their own, though the sandwich turned out pretty sublime.

Tangzhong

12 g flour
60 g milk

Dough

20 g cooked sweet potato
250 g AP flour
30 g sugar
1 tbs ADY
70 g milk
1 large egg
1/2 tsp salt (omit if using salted butter)
40 g softened salted butter

Steps

The legend of Donnie Baggs

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Today is my niece's birthday, and part of my "gift" is to send her the link to this blog entry.

Background  - years ago dabrownman christened me Donnie Baggs here on TFL.  I had written this at some point in response to one of his comments.  But decided to resurrect it here with updates.