My mid-week baked for the coming long weekend gathering/brunch. Daisy_A’s rye bread , I baked the bread before by using Guinness beer, they were delicious but I was hoping to improve more on producing thinner crust for the bread. I’m slowly getting to the point I want them – just right not too thick or too thin. I like dried fruits and nuts in my rye breads because I can eat the whole slice without butter/jam especially if I’m in the hurry for work. I like this bread so much because they are moist and keep nicely for about a week. I used freshly milled whole rye and sifted some whole rye roughly 60g in the total weight for this batch of dough. They turned out nicely.
I’m eyeing David miche for a long time till recently I read about his recent blog here. I used 500g AP flour and 86 freshly milled whole wheat flour in my final dough because my AP flour is not malted; I was worried my bread would not browning nicely after baked. I shaped them into two small bâtard per batch. I did double David's recipe so I had four small loaves. Two of them stayed to close with each other and as a result the edge was glue together. I love the overall flavor but prefer larger miche size in general. We are going to make sandwich from these breads with ramps pesto and homemade cured meats and sausages.
When Breadsong posted the blueberry maple walnut spelt bread recipe on the blog section, I wrote the recipe down immediately. I used freshly milled spelt flour for the recipe. My dough rose very fast and I had difficulties with freshly milled spelt flour before. I think they ferment really fast, anybody who has good ideas/suggestions about how to deal with freshly milled spelt flour please do give me any feedbacks. I thank you in advanced. I hope Breadsong doesn’t mind with my over proofed bread and I love to serve them with labneh that I bought from my favorite farmer market.
For the last batches of breads to bring with me for the upcoming gathering, I use Andy’s recipe - Faye's Award Winning Nettle Bread. Finally my CSA box has some fresh nettle so I use them in my bread dough. While the breads were baking, my apartment smelled heavenly; I will make a pot of curry to go with the breads. I think the flavor will go well together. Thanks Andy and Faye for the wonderful recipe.
Happy Weekend and Happy Baking,
Kimmy
