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I have made this in the past and due to hubby requesting it again, I oven fried a full pound of bacon and made it again.

This bread is a Ken Forkish (FWSY) pure sourdough with an overnight fermentation. It is shaped and proofed at room temperature the next morning. It uses pretty well all unbleached flour except for the local partially sifted flour that I used in the levain. I think that next time,  I will try to increase the amount of whole grain in it. Anyhow, here is the required crumb shot which I managed to take before it all disappeared. 

 I have just gotten into baking and I would like to know  if anyone can recommend a good baking class in the Chicago area?  I have gotten fairly good at the no-knead  recipes and have grown my own sourdough starter.  I am fairly serious about this and would appreciate your guidance. Thank you. 

I've been using an overnight bulk ferment with no more than 10% starter. An early morning shape and proof and then in the oven. Usually the total time for bulk, shape and proof is 14-16 hours.

Hydration is usually 75%. I grind the spelt and sift the larger pieces of bran out to use for cooked cereal or muffins.

Remember last time when I posted an egg bread because of too many eggs? I turned some of those into salted eggs to be used in some dishes. A month has passed and it's time to use them, and what is a better way than to use them in mooncakes! I didn't bother to boil some to be eaten as is because boiled ones are readily available; I made my own because there are no "raw" salted eggs available in the market and those are what I need for dishes I'm planning to make. This style of mooncake is not as popular as the Cantonese one but it is equally delicious.

Hello

I am new here and new at trying to start a starter. I did with whole wheat flour last Monday but I am not sure if i did it right. Today is Day 8 yet i do not get the fruity smell or sour smell. yet it does not have a bad smell. It smells like dry cardboard. It grows and bubbles but when i scrape the top the bottom does not look like it has bubbles or honey comb-like look. It looks like a paste. Am I doing it right?I started with whole wheat flour, left it for 48 hours and then fed whole wheat flour again and then the white bread flour.

I had read that Spelt fermented and proofed quickly but I thought that it couldn't be any faster than whole wheat. Boy, was I wrong! I took the combo of flours from Tartine 3 and used the amounts and method of the 75% wholewheat bread from FWSY. 

1. Fed levain local milled partially sifted flour to create 80% hydration levain. Let rise for 6 hours.

2. Autolysed 300 g Rogers No Additives Unbleached Flour, 100 g Brûlée Creek Partially Sifted Flour, 300 g Whole Spelt flour that I sifted, and 100 g whole spelt flour with 660 g of water at 92F for 30 minutes.

Since my post regarding dough rheology and the difficulties with durum wheat I have been tinkering...

I purchased 10 kilos of semola rimacinata from Italy and created a new starter spawned from my regular white lievito madre.

Procedure:

DAY1. 2200 - Refreshed and fermented for 8 hours at 28C
DAY2. 0600 - Transferred the now slightly sticky dough, wrapped and tied in cloth and left to ferment for 27 hours at 12C
DAY3. 0900 - Removed dough needed to make a loaf and reserved a piece for refreshment.

Dough:

Trust me on this -- there may be many ways to make bread pudding, and you may have your favorite -- but this bread pudding is unbelievably delicious and unbelievably simple to make with only a few ingredients. 

The only thing I didn't measure was the cinnamon and the bread.  Here, I used close to an entire boule, just tore it up into chunks.  I used a combination of Saigon and Ceylon cinnamon.  

Recipe Linked here

While making my sourdough I realized that I ran out of all purpose flour. And had only a smidgen of Rye berries left. Fortunately I had a quart of Kamut that served as a nice substitute. 

I did weigh everything to get to the 2000 grams of flour, but I didn't write down the formula. It has whatever a quart weighs of Kamut, whole white wheat, a bit of whole rye and all purpose flour in some unknown ratio. 

I have chickens, and we get about three eggs a day from them, so it goes without saying that eggs get incorporated into a lot of the food we make. What's more, I've been thinking about the SD I've been turning out, and while I like it quite a lot, I could go for a little less chew. Olive oil was a thought, butter, and I almost went with bacon fat (which I always have on hand in a chipped coffee mug in my fridge).