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These biscuits (UK: more-or-less "scones") use 50% whole wheat pastry flour, 50% AP flour with melted butter, sour cream, milk, baking powder, a tad of baking soda, salt, and sugar. I used the baking soda to get a little more lift because it would react with the acidity in the sour cream. I made a small batch, using only 125g (1 cup) of flour. I winged the recipe as I went.

400 g of levain half was Sourdough and half was my YW levain that I’m keeping as a firm starter  and just feeding it flour and water. 

It was 1400 g but didn’t quite fill the Pullman. I used my Trinity at 25g for each component. Dough fragrance was a rich chocolate. I used 3 laminations on a very wet counter to create a lovely elastic dough. 

Will definitely make again. Having it with Smoked Salmon and Horseradish sauce and veggies. Yum! 

It had been a while since I'd gotten myself into trouble with baking, my long-awaited mixer was washed and waiting for its inaugural batch, and I had 15.4 pounds of pears on hand. So, naturally, I made pear pizza with a spiced butternut caramel sauce.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION
As I've read through the TFL archives, I've appreciated the "index" posts that some users create. Since I'm going to try regularly using the blog feature of this site, the first post seems a sensible spot to reserve for such. Of course, it will be a little sparse for a while.

To the folks reading this contemporaneously, sorry for the double post!

This loaf used 20% rye, 15% spelt, and 75% bread flour along with an oatmeal porridge containing 20% of the total flours of Scottish oatmeal along with the bran sifted from the rye and spelt. To top it all off I added 60g of "Trinity": 20g each of EEVO, honey, and yogurt.

The rye and spelt flours were stone ground, sifted with a #30 screen.

Another great one from Ginsberg. The walnuts go really well together in this bread. My only challenge was lack of coarse rye meal, which I used to get from Ginsberg's shop but he closed it since. However, I came up with a workable substitute: a 75/25 mix of rye chops and pumpernickel flour from Baker's Authority. Not exactly the same but this loaf came out very similar to the one I made when the coarse meal was still available. I do have a Mockmill and I'll investigate coarsely grinding the grain but have to go through what I still have first.

Banana cream pie. 100% from scratch.
Phase #1
The buttery short pastry (Pâte Brisée) 👍✔️

I ask my bride what desert she wanted next. I rather see her indulge in my homemade sweets, rather than store brought. 

31Jan

Made with fresh-milled Durum wheat and fresh-milled Spelt.

This bake used fresh milled flour, milled with my Mockmill 200. I sifted once with a #30 drum sieve and re-milled at the finest setting for the spelt and sifted twice for the durum using a #30 and #40 sieve. I find that for the durum, it’s important to sift twice and re-mill to make sure it’s very fine, or you end up with a dense crumb.

Friday night is pizza night at TFL! I promised to show a thick crust light as air focaccia type pizza. Here she is. Parbaked crust weeks ago and frozen for just such an occasion as a cold cold COLD Friday !

I thought I was done baking before my trip, but decided to bake a pizza to have tonight and tomorrow night.  These Roman style pizzas are what I’ve been enjoying making lately, The size and thickness of the crust is just right for the two of us to have over two meals.  I’ve been adding a tangzhong to the dough made up of 10% of the total flour, in this case whole spelt at 200% hydration.