Sourdough Pioneer Bread
Last month, I posted about my work on developing a formula for the Pioneer Bread recipe from the Kansas Wheat Commission.
http://chaosamongstthefloursandflowers.blogspot.com/2011/06/variation-on-pioneer-bread.html [1]
Being quite pleased with my effort, I said that I'd get to work on a sourdough version of the same bread. After some work with my ADY yeast formula this past weekend, I baked that loaf and feel pretty good about it as well. I do concede that the slashing needs some work but I like the flavor, so does Mrs PG.
It turned out to be relatively stress free in that the most work was the flagrant calculator abuse to figure out my starter quantities. I have yet to master using a spread sheet.
I've indulged myself by posting some chatter about the loaf at my blog
http://chaosamongstthefloursandflowers.blogspot.com/2011/07/sourdough-pioneer-bread.html [2]
I think the formula is fairly solid at this time and it may be one of my entries in the Leavenworth County Fair. Before I lock into that, I want to try using butter in place of the sunflower oil in the recipe. I have the most current version of the recipe in a seperate document that I can forward in either an .odf for Open Office users or a .pdf attachment for everyone that is interested in a copy. Just leave a message for me here at TFL and I'll send it along. Comments, humor, and questions are welcome.