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Dry Figs and Brazil`s Nuts Tartine

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digopenna

Dry Figs and Brazil`s Nuts Tartine

Hello bakers!

Im a long time reader, but finally achieve a bread that Im not ashamed to share with you guys.

This is a Tartine-style bread with some dry figs and brazil`s nuts. Its basically the Tartine recepie from the Weekend Bakery website (weekendbakery.com), so they describe the steps much better than I could do it.

My levain is fed with a 1-3-3 ratio (usually 20g of levain, 60g water and 60g whole wheat). Usually I make the poolish the night before baking, in the counter, and it sits the whole next day in the fridge (I work all day, so nightime is where the magic happens here). After the autolyse stage, I added the water part II (see recepie in the website), salt and dry figs (60g) along with brazil`s nuts grinded in a food processor (30g).

I pre-heat my oven 1 hour before bake time. The bread goes to the oven inside an old oval shaped cast iron casserole (see pictures below), 30min with lid on and another 5-7min without it. Inside my oven theres a piece of soapstone that I use as a base for the cast iron.

Here it goes:

 

 

Cheers!!

 

 

 

 

Comments

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dosco

Looks well made! How does it taste?

 

-Dave

 

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digopenna

Well its a mixture of the bread's sour, sweet from the figs and some crunch from the brazil's nuts. Did well with some brie cheese or gorgonzola

Didnt liked with butter tho

 

I forgot to mention that its really hot in Brazil right now, so I had to reduce the second fermentation to half-hour only

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dosco

Where in Brazil are you located?

-Dave

 

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digopenna

Hey Dave, Rio de Janeiro

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dosco

Excellent. My mother is from Fortaleza(!).

-Dave

 

 

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CAphyl

digopenna:  Looks wonderful and thanks for sharing your bake with us.  Would love a slice of fig and nut bread right now. Best from California, Phyllis

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dabrownman

We love figs and Brazil nuts in bread.  Along with pistachio nuts, Brazil nuts are under used.  They are good with prunes too!  Well done and happy baking.