What do you call the time between Easter and Christmas? Exactly! Time to practice making panettone!
I just couldn’t resist without baking another panettone — or in this case, colomba. This time with cranberry and white chocolate.
I wanted to try again a sourdough loaf with 100% "Ruchmehl". I'm not 100% sure, but afaik the closest match for Swiss "Ruchmehl" is the first clear flour. It is the traditional flour for bread in Switzerland. Something in the middle between bread flour and whole wheat. In the recent years some millers in Germany and Austria have begun to produce this flour, but it's not really mainstream.
BTT - this is my second bake with this flour. I wanted a more open crumb with 100% "Ruchmehl" / first clear
100% Ruchmehl / first clear
80% total hydration
2% salt
I’m not sure if "sandwich loaf" and "100% whole grain rye" go well together. However, since I’ve seen so many Pullman loafs here lately, I decided to bake my 100% whole rye recipe (https://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/75332/100-whole-rye) in a sandwich bread pan.
This time I used a liquid sourdough instead of lievito madre. Around 3 weeks ago I converted my LM to LiCoLi. It's anyway too warm to bake panettone and LiCoLi seems to be easier to maintain.
A variation of my last flax seed recipe (https://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/76368/flaxseed-sourdough-bread). 20% LM instead of whole rye sourdough, increased the amount of flaxseeds by 1%-2% (beaker percentage), increased the overall hydration by 10% (baker percentage).
It was more or less a "freestyle" recipe, a spontaneous decision to bake with flaxseeds.
80% white flour
5% spelt flour
15% whole wheat flour
25% whole rye sourdough
100% hydration
15% flaxseeds (soaked in the water the night before)
The flaxseeds are pretty "thirsty", the dough felt more like 70%-75% hydration
I started a new LM and it was time to test it with a greek tsoureki. A bit too late for Easter, on the other hand after Easter is before Easter ;)
Recipe based on Blondy by #brotokoll: https://brotokoll.com/recipe-archiv/blondy-easter-sourdough-challah-with-pasta-madre/?lang=en
Just added the greek spices for tsoureki, adjusted the hydration and of course used another flour.
Dough after mixing:
Continuation of the panettone saga with a seasonal change: colomba, classic recipe, just substituted 20% candied orange peel with dark and milk chocolate.
The LM showed good balance, the primo tripled in size within 12 hours. The secondo was pretty sluggish, taking its time to rise. It didn't took off until I increased the temperature from my usual 27C to 29-30C. That made me quite skeptical.
I'm not very good in documenting the process. Only some random pictures.
After about 20-25min in the oven:
First pizza of the season
First time using whole wheat pizza flour. Never used the flour before and decided to mix it with 33% strong white flour. Next I'll go 100% WW.
First time kneading with Famag Grilletta IM 5S
2/3 WW pizza flour, 1/3 strong white flour, 30% LM, 80% overall hydration, overnight fermentation in the fridge
Curly kale pesto (curly kale, roasted cashews and sunflower seeds, salt, pepper, a touch of garlic, olive oil, water), mozzarella, bacon, oregano.
Again time for 100% whole rye
hydration 90%, whole rye 100%, inspired by https://brotokoll.com/recipe-archiv/roggy-balboa-100-freshly-milled-rye-sourdough-bread/?lang=en
changes: no old bread, used my LM as initial starter (I feed only one LM and use it for all my bakes), fermentation temps are probably lower than in the original recipe
