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HAZEL AND WALNUT SOUR DOUGH

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yozzause

HAZEL AND WALNUT SOUR DOUGH

Last week 's bake was a single loaf  sourdough  with hazel and walnuts

Normaly i would make a dough 3 kgs flour 2 kgs water 1 kg sourdough culture  70g salt and 70g butter but this time i did it by hand back at my work station. It had a fairly minimal mix as the work bench had been covered in  a christmasy table cover that had been stuck down so rather than pull it off to allow a bench mix i did it in the bowl. The dough was much smaller  but at the same ratio it was  given a stretch and fold every hour and shaped  and put into the cool room after 3 hours and baked the following morning.

My normal tasters were disappointed as there was only a slice or two rather than a whole loaf.

 

 

 

Tomorrows bake is the normal size 50% wholemeal sourdough with feta and walnuts.

The college will be closing SOON so there are a few ingrediants that need to be used up

Regards Yozza

Comments

ananda's picture
ananda

Hi Derek,

Lovely looking crumb supporting bounteous quantity of large-sized nut pieces.

Yum!

Best wishes

Andy

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holds99

Your crumb looks very nice considering the generous amount of nuts you incorporated into the dough.  Your bread looks delicious. 

Howard

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Mebake

I love the color of the crust! though not bold, golden color is one of my favourite on bread. Lovely work, derek!

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breadsong

Nutty, and with a sesame crust; looks wonderful!
:^) from breadsong

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yozzause

Thanks everyone  for your comments the bread was very good and really the dough did not have a lot of mixing so came out particularly well.

regards Derek