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My first Hamelman rye bake.  Someone please explain why I waited so long to start baking Hamelman rye recipes.  This took much less time than a normal bread, with 90-minutes each of bulk and final rise, then into the oven.  I love the mild sweet sourness of the rye, complimented by my non-controversial addition of caraway seeds after shaping.  Next time I will autolyse the WW and bread flour since it didn't occur to me at the time.

Amaranth/sesame on left, bulgur on right. 

This week I decided to go back to my roots in bread baking by baking the Overnight Country Brown recipe out of FWSY.  Of course, I had to put in a few add ins. Two of the loaves got a total of 100 g of bulgur soaked in 100 g of water and the other two got 100 g of sprouted amaranth (24 hours) and 25 g of black sesame seeds. I added the add ins at the autolyse stage but otherwise followed the recipe as written in the book. 

Dear friends:

Just wanted to let you know that despite my life has been upside down lately, I'm still hanging in there and trying to bake when I can...

So you know I have not given up baking yet...

My latest bake was inspired by Ru007's double fermented oat porridge sourdough, omitting the seeds and nuts to keep it simple. I first tried this a fortnight ago and produced a pancake. I suspect this was due to over-fermentation. Ru007 already recommended reducing the final rise time, and I suspect my fridge doesn't get very cold.

Hi everybody,

I’ve just come out a very busy three weeks at work, no time to bake L It gave me a chance to make my way through all the loaves in the freezer. So now its time to stock up again!

This week’s loaf is a variation of one of my favourite loaves polenta pepita sourdough. I decided to substitute the pumpkin seeds with pecans.

Formula:

Hi all, 

My 3th bread. 

Followed most of the tips suggested by you all and they were useful. 

Bread was soft and the crust was crunchy.  Went perfectly with pulled pork and Cole slaw. 

Will bake this one more often now. 

I am now getting the hang of it; the process and its important elements. 

Next recipe with Polish.  Wish me luck. 

Thank you. 

I had never used squash in my bread baking before and didn't know how it would effect the end result.  I only used a small amount of leftover roasted butternut squash that I mashed up with a spoon before adding to the final dough.

I have to say it really added a nice nutty and slightly sweet flavor coupled with the maple syrup I added.  The freshly milled WW flour and Spelt which were both sifted once along with the other additions turned out a moist and flavorful bread.  I brought one of the loaves into my office today and everyone told me they loved it.

Lucy has been pretty nuts this week going on about how she thinks the wee beasties in SD are really extraterrestrials sent here by more superior wee beasties to take over the Earth after killing us all and using us as a food source in place of the bland flour and water diet they are on now.

The last time I tried to make a loaf of sourdough bread .

I had several issues first of all the dough was so sticky and it stuck to the basket despite the rice flour and wheat flour that I put on the basket! 

Also I was on the clock and got I impatient!