This week's baking

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Brother Glenn and I so often seem synchronized. Get this: I'm still baking bread too! But, then, I am not going to Scotland any time soon. 

This week, I took a break from my adventures in Forkishland and baked some old favorites.

San Francisco-style Sourdough with diamond scoring

 

San Francisco-style Sourdough with "tic-tac-toe" scoring 

 

San Francisco-style Sourdough crumb

 

Pain au Levain from Hamelman's Bread

 

Pain au Levain from Hamelman's Bread crumb

My next baking will be back to rye breads, I think.

Happy baking!

David

Excellent baking as always David.  I'm sure you must have some lucky neighbors and friends who you share your breads with...

these breads should look like inside and out.  Love the tic tac toe slash too.  Just great baking David.

I'm going the other way - toward the light after a slew of whole grains, Tzitzel and multigrains.

Happy Baking   

Toast

Love the boules and fantastic scoring through and through.  Many a folk would like to have these on their standby list. 

Nice baking

Josh

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I really love the color, crumb, and scoring of your bread!  They are beautiful!

Warm regards,

Casey

 

Beautiful as always David,  BTW meant to tell you I tried your Pumpernickel formula.  It was a complete and  total failure.  I know it was my fault entirely the altas (sp) messed up my hydration to the max.  Looking forward to trying it again.  So how do you adjust for the water in the altis to the overall formula?

Thanks Faith 

Thanks for the compliment.

I don't do any adjustment for altus. I squeeze out as much of the soaking water as I can before adding it to the other ingredients. I figure it's pretty close to hydration neutral, or close enough. If you had a problem, I assume the dough was too wet and sticky. You might just hold back some of the water and add it as needed during mixing.

David