Lucy was thrilled to make 2 breads in one week for a change and she really came up with a dusey too - a Lebanese, Greek, Italian and Mexican Focaccia.
Been baking so many breads with lots of add ins, back to basic but keeping my new favorite wheat germ parmesan crust.
I got a new lame finally, oh it made a world of a difference! Cutting through dough like butter, I'll so try the double slash again
There are only two places left on this course https://www.artisan-bread-school.com/course/five-day-course-in-lyman-maine-usa-october-2019/. The next course in the USA will be in late 2020.
This is a 45% rye bread made with fresh milled rye sifted so it's close to a medium grind rye flour. The ricotta cheese resulted in a nice moist crumb and the onions just go perfect with rye of course. I added a little balsamic vinegar which added a little sweetness.
The flavor was perfect in this one with a nice sour tang perfect for a pastrami or corned beef sandwich.
Swiss Farmhouse Bread – “Bread. A baker’s book of techniques and recipes, 2nd Edition” by Jeffrey Hamelman.
My experiment into the world of yeast water bread was inspired by an organised community bake on the Fresh Loaf bread site. The members have such a wealth of experience and expertise. When things do not go to plan, experts jump in with great advice. I learned a lot by participating and through others experience.
This bread contains walnuts and raisins and uses raisin yeast water for leavening. The first step is to make the yeast water and takes 5 to 6 days.
Two 260 g loaves, whole wheat sourdough, one autolysed, one mixed all together at beginning with 1% diastolic malt.
I liked the first one better for its larger crumb, deeper color, and a bit more tang.
But then again, who likes apples and who likes oranges?
This was the result of a whatever-I-had-in-the-pantry + I-need-a-good-camping-loaf. It was so good I decided to put it on here. It went something like this:
329 g King Arthur AP flour
174 g King Arthur White Whole Wheat
42 g King Arthur Bread Flour
260 g Local Stone-Ground Spelt, 60 sift (From Migrash Farm in Baltimore County, MD!)
336 g Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Porter, 10% ABV
219 g H20, warm-ish
330 g medium-ripe levain (~100% hydration, mostly local wholegrain stone-ground rye, also from Migrash, + a little KA bread flour)
I revisited this upon request from one of my customers. I changed up some of the grains (Spelt and Kamut instead of Durum), added extra feta and Sundried tomatoes, and decided to go with a longer mixing time rather than sifting and soaking the bran. This last part made for a slightly more streamlined procedure. Hopefully it pays off.
Recipe
Note: I mill more grain berries than needed in order to have extra to feed the levain builds. So add extra grain berries to the amounts listed below unless you have other wholegrain flours handy to use.
I haven't been posting here much of late. I have been mostly baking variations on a multi-grain sourdough - some mix of heritage wheats, rye, kamut and spelt - with the whole grain flours between 30 and 50% of total flour and all home-milled.
