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My apprentice, Lucy, has been on a quest to make some rye breads that really pack the flavor of what she thinks a rye should taste like.  Her last bake really came out well with a 40% rye and I thought for sure she wouldn’t try to improve on it any time soon but, she fooled me again.

baked another SD pineapple enzyme(home made) Kamut, pumpkin sourdough bread with maple roasted bacon and celery ..

little changes to the first one i did.http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/33434/sprouted-spelt-pumpkin-sourdough-maple-roasted-bacon-bits

no sprouted spelt .. substitute with Kamut flour and a little whole wheat. added 2 tablespoon of pineapple enzyme which my friend gave me (matured 30days) just experimenting.

Levain :

20 gr  Rye Starter

100 gr H20

100 gr flour ( 50% Wheat Flour tipo 2 + 50 % Whole Wheat flour )

Left at room temperature for 12 H  ( 23 ° )

Final Dough :

200 gr White Rye Flour

200 gr Wheta Flour tipo 2

500 gr Whole Wheat  flour

650 + 50 gr H20

18 gr Salt

5 gr Malt

Method

-         when levain is ready

My sourdough loaf came out really nice today.

I used a firmer starter than I usually do. I believe it was 30 grams starter, 50 grams water, 50 grams rye flour that I left out overnight.  In the AM I added 500 grams bread flour, 370 grams water, and 10 grams salt.  Folded 3-4 times over 3-4 hours, shaped it, baked it in a pot for 45 minutes.

I made baguettes with no wheat and it was good. Like, really good. Better than I could ever have hoped. I know that some of the processes I follow aren't ideal when it comes to traditional bread-making, but without gluten it seems that everything changes.

There were so many wonderful looking breads with lots of stuff in them posted in the last week that I decided I wanted to play too.

Lazy Sundays call for fresh home made bagels – I couldn’t decide which ones to make “Jalapeno and Cheddar” or “Cinnamon and Raisin” – so I made both :)

A link to full recipe on my blog here

Sprouted spelt flour and coconut flour walnut paste pineapple beer sourdough loaves

this I must share.. turned out to be lovely. 

250g sprouted spelt grains (still wet but drained) (25% fresh milled flour)

50g toasted walnuts 

80g coconut oil (cold pressed Nui)

blend all above

140g bob's red mill desiccated coconut (blend till fine) can't get coconut flour here

    I just finished up the last of my decadent cream cheese rolls so it was time to bake a more healthy hearty bread but one that is not too heavy either.

I decided to try a double starter which I've done in the past.  My first inclination for this bread was to try an experiment and make all of the flour come from the pre-ferment but I chickened out at the last moment and only upped the starter amount slightly from my normal formulas.

Spelt is in now... sprouted some spelt grains and baked with maple roasted bacon.. i forgot to add celery!!! hmmm.. next round.

cooling off in the oven..