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Not So Stollen – Christmas 2013

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Not So Stollen – Christmas 2013

This Not So Stollen version is once againis based on a modification to a real Dresden Christmas Stollen recipe that was posted by nellapower here:  Refer to it for most of the method with a few exceptions below.

 http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/25407/dresden-christmas-stollen

 Last year’s stollen can be found here:

 Not So Stollen

 

Lucy figured out last year, if you replaced the commercial yeast with SD it would be SD Stollen and if you replaced some of the white flour with other whole grains..... it would be a SD Multi-grain Stollen that tasted better? And if you used YW for part of the levain then you would be as nuts as my apprentice.    But others might not think so.

 

I'd be surprised there isn't a SD YW, multi-grain stollen out there somewhere but I can’t find it easy enough – except for the one we did last year.   Just about everything in the bread world has already been done by some baker like nellapower already but this stollen has landed far, far from Dresden and it might be called something else like Sourdough YW Multi-grain Dried Fruit Bread with 5 Different Hooch’s and one Pooch..

 

Of course, Lucy being Lucy, that is not all my apprentice did to this once fine recipe either. She is determinately diabolical with her changes and modifications to just about any bread - and can’t be stopped when she gets rolling, plus this one has more opportunity for her to get he paws wet.

 

She still wasn’t at all sure SD alone could lift this even more hefty lump of multi-grain stollen goodness properly LL by itself so, once again, instead of commercial yeast, we threw in some YW for the liquid in the SD levain to give it an uplifting boost.

 

We didn’t use a 24 hour 1% starter, counter top levian build with all of the whole grains in the levain like last year.  We are older and didn’t think we could last another 24 hour 1% build and wiser since sour will never come though in this bread.   So we put the whole grains in the levains but also added the normal amount of YW and SD to speed things along with our non standard standard 2 stage build.  We will do a 3 stage separate build for YW and SD next year.

 

We used home ground spelt, rye, farro, kamut and some ww for fun.   Lucy tossed in some AP into the levain this year because she felt like having some ‘Fun with Flour’.  She really loves the tiny Krup’s coffee grinder we used to make the whole berries less chunky and more suitable for stollen.  We made our own citrus peels again this year by taking off the skin only with a XOX peeler and boiled them 3 times before dying them and coating them in home made vanilla sugar.

 

 Lucy upped the alcohol again this year, even over last years sodden fruit fest, by adding some bourbon to the home made limoncello and arancello that were there last year to enhance the orange and lemon peel.  We also used the traditional dark rum and amaretto too - in total about 60% more proportionally than Nellapower’s originl.   No water was required in the fruit soak again this year-- as the fruits had an even harder time trying to soak up this year’s spirit mix.

 

Lucy once again decided to cut back some of the dried fruits a little but not as much as last year and once again added walnuts and pistachios for a little crunch – now she thinks the crunch is traditional.  She found the YW frozen fruit in the freezer door again this year not knowing that it was saved for this bake. Once again it was apple and cherry pieces. 

 

To cut some of the fat, not that it reduces it much with all the butter in this recipe, we replaced all of the cream with Lite Mexican Media Creama.   Who knew they would come out with a half the fat Mexican table cream in a can – way to go Nestles.   We also chucked in 25 g of butter flavored Crisco this year, on top of the butter just to mix the fatty things up more than usual plus…. Lucy though the ingredient list was a little short.

 

Like last year, we decided to replace some of the white sugar with dark brown sugar hoping it would pair better with the dark rum that is made from molasses if you buy the good stuff, but once again, this years dark rum was probably not that good and probably made from HFCS.

 

We added some nutmeg to the spice list again thinking a little more spice would go well with the extra hooch just like it did last year.  Once again we forgot to add the ground almonds to the fruit to sop of some of its wetness.  Lucy put the ground almonds in the dough flour by mistake, again and is now a new tradition it seems.

 

 We added 60 g or bench flour when we added the fruits to keep the overall hydration closer to the original.  We added 75 g more hooch than we should have used to begin with…. so the flour would have come in even more handy……. if Lucy had hands

 

Usually we would put a sunset in here but, the moon rise last night was stupendous - the clouds and orange tree made it special.

We basically cut last year’s recipe for 2 loaves in half so the kneading was a breeze this year.  Once again we changed the method slightly by cutting in all the fat into the flour before adding the media crema which were supposed to be part of the levain but we used YW and water there instead.

 

For some reason a volunteer jalapeno pepper plant sprung up in total shade under the orange tree this year.  Never had one ther before.

This made the kneading easy since we could do 10 minutes of slap and folds before adding in the fruits and nuts and the 60 g of bench flour.  The dough was very manageable this year and the dough tightened itself back up as we folded the add ins into the dough.  This method is much closer to short crust pasty and stollen is much closer to short crust pasty than it is to bread anyway.

The minneola tree looks like it did well thsi year but it is the worst year in so many.... 

This year we bulk fermented the dough in a bowl on the counter for 6 hours before we shaped it and put it in the fridge for a 15 hours retard.  The dough set up into a hard lump in the fridge with all that butter and it did not proof one iota in the cold.  So we left it on the counter on a heating pad for 6 hours until it did look ready for the oven which it never really did.

 

Made Italian sausage sliders out of the last of Mark Sinclair's rolls - just as good as the hamburgers.

Italian sausage slider with home made dijon, butternut squash soup with Parmesan, pickled Serranos and red pepper for the slider, steamed Italian summer squash, salad from the pot garden, brie, sweet and white potato baked wedge fries with BBQ sauce - Yummy!

Oddly the dough cracked through the bottom at about the 4 hour mark of the final on the counter but, since it hadn’t really rose much.  I ignored it and let it go another 2 hours.  It still didn’t look like much proofing had gone on in the 12 hours total it spent on the counter before and after the retard.  I pinched the bottom closed before we un-molded it on parchment paper and a peel and slid it in the oven on the bottom stone,

 

Sliders were served with a nice salad from the pot garden.

My apprentice still thinks she might be related to Rin Tin Tin.  Why she thinks this might be a possibility is strange indeed with her being so short legged and stupid – a polar opposite of Rin Tin Tin if there ever was one.

 

This year’s Not So Stollen version actually looks like a stollen instead of the flat pancakes of last year – yea!.  It will not be wrapped in cotton cloth and placed for 6 weeks in a beautiful blue holiday tin with silver snowflakes like last year though.   With 8 days till Christmas, this stollen will be lucky not to be completely gone by then – if it isn’t stolen first.

 

We baked it for 20 minutes at 375 F with steam and for 70 minutes at 350 F convection.  The oven was turned off when the stolen hit 203 F.  Even a year later we still don’t know what temperature it was supposed to be in the inside when done so we went with last year’s temperature of 205 F before removing it to a cooling rack.

 

 We did not have to cover it with foil either like we did at the at the 50 minute mark last year so it wouldn’t get too brown.  For some reason, this one did not spread too much either but you can’t say it sprang much, but it did crack like it was trying to do something on the puffy side.

 

This Not SO Stollen - 2013 looks and smells terrific and, as Karin says, there is no reason to wait 6 weeks to eat it - so we won’t and if we want another one later we will make another one,

 

Once again, we are getting pretty far away from the nellapower’s original recipe for this Modified Dresden Christmas Stollen - Version 2 even though they are still quite similar in concept except for all those pesky minor changes :-)  Not So Stollen is still the perfect name for this unusual attempt to make an alien stollen of the 3rd kind.

 

We buttered it as it came out of the oven and later covered it in a lemon drizzle per the GMA’s and then a thicker dusting of powdered sugar was applied.  I see French toast on the Christmas breakfast horizon for some reason.

 

Thanks to nellapower for posting her original recipe and her help in our making something close to it conceptually and to the GMA’s for the lemon drizzle idea that they put on their fine stollen. 

 

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

Formula

ComboSD YW Starter

Build 1

Build 2

 Build 3

Total

%

SD Multigrain

7.5

0

0

7.5

1.74%

Dark Rye

4

7

0

11

3.67%

AP

4

7

0

11

3.67%

Farro

4

7

0

11

3.67%

Spelt

4

7

0

11

3.67%

Whole Wheat

4

7

0

11

3.67%

Kamut

4

7

0

11

3.67%

Total

31.5

42

0

73.5

24.50%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Starter Totals

 

 

 

 

 

Hydration - 72 G YW

97.87%

 

 

 

 

Levain % of Total

10.75%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dough Flour

 

%

 

 

 

AP

300

100.00%

 

 

 

Dough Flour

300

100.00%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Media Creama 225

225

75.00%

 

 

 

Dough Hydration

75.00%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Flour

430.5

 

 

 

 

Total Water, Creama, Cream

294

 

 

 

 

T. Dough Hydration

68.29%

 

 

 

 

Whole Grain %

14.11%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hydration w/ Adds

72.91%

 

 

 

 

Total Weight

1,298

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Add - Ins

 

%

 

 

 

Lemon Peel

10

3.33%

 

 

 

Orange Peel

25

8.33%

 

 

 

VWG

5

1.67%

 

 

 

Pistachios

25

8.33%

 

 

 

Walnuts

25

8.33%

 

 

 

Butter

125

41.67%

 

 

 

Ground Almonds

50

16.67%

 

 

 

Sugar 12, D. Brown Sugar 25

37

12.33%

 

 

 

Red Malt

1

0.33%

 

 

 

White Malt

1

0.33%

 

 

 

YW Apple and Cherries

75

25.00%

 

 

 

Prunes

25

8.33%

 

 

 

Cranberry

25

8.33%

 

 

 

Apricot

25

8.33%

 

 

 

Raisins

50

16.67%

 

 

 

Total

504

168.00%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1/4  tsp Cinnamon

 

 

 

 

 

1/4 tsp Cardamom

 

 

 

 

 

1/4 tsp Nutmeg

 

 

 

 

 

1/4 tsp Mace

 

 

 

 

 

Dark Rum - 25 g

 

 

 

 

 

Amaretto - 25 g

 

 

 

 

 

Limoncello - 25 g

 

 

 

 

 

Arancello - 25 g

 

 

 

 

 

Bourbon - 25 g

 

 

 

 

 

Bench AP Flour -60 g

Butter Crisco – 25 g

 

 

 

 

 

( B. Flour included in Total Flour and for Hydration Total)

 

 

 

Comments

Wingnut's picture
Wingnut

Another fine bake DAB, not nuts.

Cheers,

Wingnut

dabrownman's picture
dabrownman

Nothing like a Christmas Stollen to make the rest of the year's bakes seem.... as easy as pie - and they are comparatively!

I hope you held back some of those cookies you sent to your wife's work mates.

Happy Baking!

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CeciC

omg your loaf sounds so interesting!! Love your additional alcohol. 

does it taste like a cake or a bread. I guess it could be somewhere in between. U might need to build a barricade to guard your stollen before it got stolen.

Very nice bake DA. 

Ceci

dabrownman's picture
dabrownman

because it is a gift but last year's tasted like our banana bread without the bananas - since it has pretty much the same the same add ins as this one..... only no chocolate chips in the stollen anbd a lot more fruits in it and the banana bread doesn't have cream or the citrus peels in it and more sugar.   This one comes out a little less sweet, more dry and bread like....Makes a fabulous French toast just like panettone! 

Makes for a great Holiday gift - at least Lucy hopes it does.

Glad you liked the post and

Happy Baking CeciC

Floydm's picture
Floydm

Yum.

dabrownman's picture
dabrownman

but this one came out much better than last year's version - no need to cover it for over browning half way through the bake and it didn't spread and flatten out either.  It still took 12 hours of counter proofing and 15-16 hours of retard though.  You never know what the oven will give you it seems - or why it does so.  I do wish we could taste it though..... to see how it compares with last year.  Lucy has her heart set on giving it away...

Happy Holiday baking Floyd

Isand66's picture
Isand66

Beautiful DA.  Looks great and must taste terrific.  Nice spread as well.

Regards

Ian

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dabrownman

Ian - had ro bake some fruit cakes and the SD one took all day..  I'm glad you like the not so stollen.  We won't know what this one tastes like  since UPS has it on its way to a friend, but hopefully one day you will finally get a chance to bake one and see what you think.  For our 2nd one,,it sure was better than out first one that made some fine French toast!

Happy baking Ian

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Mini Oven

you will soon be to the point of wrapping your fruity loaves in a thin layer of unfruity dough to keep the fruit from burning.  You are pushing the limits!  

Nice fruit bread there!  Greeting from the Badlands! ...S.Dakota!

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dabrownman

the Badlands - lots of gold and gambling there I here :-)  I never though of wrapping the stollen in  dough!  That is a great idea.  I did pick off a few burnt fruits before covering it in sugar and they don't taste at all good. We have moved a few steps beyond stollen but Lucy will do that with just about every bread recipe there is - except yours.  Yesterday we got up and took some of your Walnut Rye out of the freezer to toast for breakfast with a little cream cheese.  Lucy and i both agree that it is the best bread we baked in 2013 without question -and we baked quite a few different ones:-).

Glad you liked the fruit bread Mini and don't forget they call it the Badlands for a reason::-)  Happy Baking!

Mini Oven's picture
Mini Oven

Thank you, that is quite the compliment and you did a fine job baking!  I see a big freezer mouse took a bite.  Hard to resist...

We woke up to Badlands alright, the cold weather had finally caught up to us turning them into icy Foglands.  We were just taking our time enjoying all the touristy spots without any crowds, most the time just ourselves with the park rangers and all the tourist traps were closed.  Now to think about it, don't ever recall seeing a cake mold shaped like the Devil's Tower.  

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dabrownman

couldn't pick a winner until the bread was toasted and before the schmear went on so she could take a championship deciding bite - she really looks like a really big mouse now that you mention it :-)  Devil's tower Rye sounds pretty interesting indeed.

Happy Cold Fogging Without Crowds :-)

gmabaking's picture
gmabaking

are still pleasures. lol This looks so good, lots of variety and tastes all at once. wow. Lucy is getting more creative every day! Can't imagine a pepper volunteering to grow anywhere near here, lucky to get them to reluctantly grow in our short summer. Your pictures are beautiful and your bread is amazing! As always, thanks for sharing and inspiring-

Merry Christmas

Barbra

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dabrownman

It had leaves that looked just like the ones on the orange tree.  I thought the orange tree was sending up a shoot which was weird because it hadn't done that in 27 years.  I did plant some peppers about 25 feet from there 2 years ago..... You would think those jalapenos would have tough little seeds:-)  Up where you live the only thing i would think about growing is moss and lichens........and wheat!.  Lucy's winter wheat is 2' tall now and she waters it every other day with a little Miracle Gro in the water....

Glad you like the post Barbra. 

Lucy and I look forward to the GMA's last week's bake....or are you gals gong to post this and last week's bake to catch up?

Happy Christmas Baking !