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 Carissimi Amici,

quella che oggi vi lascio è un'idea golosissima per ottenere un dolce semplicemente straordinario, con un ingrediente modesto e che possiamo trovare sempre nelle case di chi, come noi, è appassionato di panificazione. 

La ricetta è stata estrapolata dal libro "Premiati Forni d'Italia", ed è oramai entrata di pieno diritto nel quaderno delle squisitezze di famiglia, è del Maestro Eliseo Bertini di Trento, egregio membro del "Richemont Club Italia" e lui stesso la descrive così:

I tried to make this bread, being inspired very much by the video that FREERK made: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik_UKKkjKLo

I baked this one in an oblong cloche.

Tom

This weekend I decided to make the Tartine Country rye bread again.  The formula in the book:

Leaven  200g

Water    800 g

Whole Rye 170 g

Bread Flour 810 g

Salt 20g.

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My "modifications" to the formula:

Leaven                      200 g.

All Purpose Flour     500 g

Whole White Wheat 330 g

One of my Christmas presents last year was Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish.  While I've wanted to get beyond just reading the book and starting to bake from it, life has kept me well supplied with other things to do.  There was the completion of the rye bread test bakes for Stan Ginsberg's upcoming book, a vacation to San Diego, a freezer well-stocked with bread that needed to be eaten before more was baked, test bakes of hot cross buns and Easter bread and salt sticks for some upcoming classes, and, well, you get the picture.

Yesterday was a busy day of baking.

Yeah... I bet you're wondering what I do with all of this bread.

-i eat it

-I give some away

-I try to stuff it into a freezer that is already packed with bread

It does get used, but I think I do need to try to slow down a little with the baking. Smaller batches would also probably help. Maybe if I get a permit for selling at farmer's markets, it could be fun to sell it. 

When last we left my Field Blend #2 first-time-out-of-the-cannon tome, I mentioned that there were lessons learned – aren’t there always?  And that the next time through I’d be applying the scaling, mixing and shaping with my own two grubby hands, now that my sister in law had just about enough of us and skipped town ;-) .

Hello, bakers! Yesterday, I had an appointment at 1, but I really wanted to do some baking. My solution? Get up really early. And it worked. I did have to drink coffee throughout the day, but it was worth it.

For fun, I sifted some whole wheat flour that I had ground to see how the dough behaves (more like white flour or more like whole wheat).  I liked the result and used most of the removed bran to coat the rolls with all over.  Taste and crumb were very good.  I chose to make rolls to maximize the amount of bran that could coat the bread.

Hi Freshloafers.  It’s been a while since my last post, despite best intentions, and I decided that rather than put it off further, I thought I’d submit a bit of a “catch up” post that has a grab bag of quasi-recent bread experiments.  Forgive the lack of commentary or detail on process – happy to answer any questions, of course – but life & work have kept me busier than usual, so I haven’t had as much time for weekend baking or chronicling as I would like.