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Les Petits Bâtons au Levain

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This is the continuation of my sourdough viennoiserie series. This time I used AP flour for the dough. I also have some milk that is going to expire so that's what I used as the liquid. For all the levain builds I also used milk as the liquid and fed it with AP. 


Oh merde ! Que'est qui se passe avec ma fou !

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Oh %*#&@ what happenned to my oven Are we allowed to swear here ? Today I immediately thought of this vid (see 1:10) as it took 30 minutes to bake these loaves. https://youtu.be/_2A-Wj4cG0A Per yesterdays post I am experimenting with trying to get nicely browned ears and for whatever reason waiting a bit longer to build up heat seems to have had the reverse effect. So no wonderfully presentable ears but pretty decent loaves otherwise. Scoring looked spot on before shutting the door.

Weekend baking :)

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This weekend's baking was totally different from my normal style. 

I dug out a package of IDY that I bought a year ago (it's been that long since i've used it) and made a focaccia.

It turned out good. I didn't manage to get a crumb shot, because i made it for a dinner party and, you know, its a bit awkward to stop everyone from eating while I take a few photos! LOL! But the crumb was nice and open, full of bubbles and I think that's how it's supposed to be. 

What did i do a few weeks ago that made my scores brown

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Well so far this week shaping and scoring has been good but not fantastic. A few weeks ago about 6 minutes into my bake I peeked in a saw every score line developing perfectly. At the end of the bake they came out with beautiful browned ears and could be been on a postcard. This picture above is what I consider now to be sort of average with good bloom and burst but now just trying to figure out what went right last time. As far as I can tell one very important factor is getting as much heat into and around the loaf in the first 5 minutes.

Pita!!! and some other baked delights.

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Well friends, ski season is full on! I have been baking lots, but have not had a lot of time to post. Well this pita certainly had a pocket! I haven't baked pita in a while and the last recipe I used had a very short, 2 minute rise time. I googled some pita recipes and ended up letting the rolled out pita proof for nearly an hour. Based on my results, it worked!

The bomb for some pork souvlaki.

[2017-11] Brioche Too

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After my previous attempt at brioche (where I tragically left out the salt) I thought I'd try again. For this attempt, I just went with a straight loaf shape, and skipped the pseudo-braid I used previously. It's not a very exciting looking loaf, but the flavor was really very good. Pretty happy with the way this one turned out.

As before, I used this recipe from TheKitchn.