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Inspiration comes from a few places.  I almost never crack open either of my two bread baking books anymore, as the world of TFL is the best on the market!  My main interests in the next loaf to tackle are usually spurred on by something in the Bread Browser, the Also on TFL or someone’s Recent Blog Entries posting.

Sourdough Cinnamon Raisin Beer Bread

I have come to the conclusion that soaking the flour over night just makes bread much tastier. NOW if I could only remember to record all the amounts and ingredients I put in!

Had the idea this morning and wanted to make it today so  this is a hybrid.

100g barley + 100g buckwheat milled on the course setting of my KoMo. 

400g milk 300g water and a pinch of salt

Cook until a thick porrage forms and let cool to room temp. 

125g ripe starter,300g water, the porrage, 250g KA AP, 250g fresh milled high extraction white wheat.

Mix and let autolyse. 

Add 15g salt,  25g sorghum syrup and 4g hydrated IY.

I recently came across PiPs’ 100% WW batards and had a go at it, with a lot of success.  Now that I’ve discovered the quality of what PiPs does, I took a gander at some other breads of his. This time I decided on his 40% rye with caraway seeds.

Well, the sourdough hamburger buns went over really well. I also made this sourdough carrot cake from King Arthur Flour website and everyone loved it! A nice way to use up some sourdough discard, if you have any. Next time I am going to try their sourdough chocolate cake.

I Had a dilemma about what to do with an approx 400 gram dough ball which was part of a batch 5 or six days old. The dough had served well -as usual-and was getting on the sour side. No problem except that its too small amount to warm up the oven. I have this situation when I interrupt the second half of my two loaf weekly cycle and make pizza. Three pizzas leave me that extra lump from what would have gone in as a loaf.

My whole grain spelt bread is made with 100% whole spelt flour, its an easy to make yeast bread, super healthy, low glycemic and tastes lovely.  Details are to be found on mybreadandbrot.com.  Along with a couple of extra pictures of our local farmland, and some stunning wheat fields,

http://mybreadandbrot.com/whole-grain-spelt-bread-2/

My daughter asked me to make hamburger and hot dog buns for tomorrow's barbeque and I decided to try my hand at sourdough buns. I have been working on a sourdough sandwich bread and I combined that with my regular hamburger bun recipe and came up with these. They are definitely not the squishy store bought buns but the crust is soft and crumb will hold up to a hamburger and fixin's.

Here is my recipe:

Flour (66% AP; 33% white WW): 100%
Water: 67%
Salt: 2.5%
Shortening: 8.3%
Egg: 16%
Sugar: 5%
Milk Powder: 5%
Starter (@58% hydration): 33%