Heading to some friends for a celebratory lunch, one of whom is retiring. We cannot possibly arrive with only some flowers and a card, so what better to bring than some home baked bread. In this case I wanted to use fresh Canadian grown blueberries and enhance them with lemon.
A place where I order rye chops also has emmer flour, and I decided to get some. Looking for a recipe, I found one on TFL by leslieruf. By and large I followed his description, although there were a few fairly minor differences.
Inspired by a recent post by Eric Hanner’s daughter, I decided to have another go at the deli rye recipe that Eric has shared with us. As you may know he passed away before his time and although I didn’t know him, I know many of you did here on TFL. Based on my previous bakes of this recipe, I’ve made small changes which are reflected in the spreadsheet and instructions. If you’re worried that the onion flavour will be too much, you can just used filtered water instead of the water used to rehydrated the onions.
Aug. 16, 2022. 99th bake.
WW, rye, bread flour, red rye crystal malt, starter, IDY.
I used 20 grams of ground red rye crystal malt for 350 g total flour, which gave a good malty taste, but perhaps a tad too much. Next time I'll back it off to 5%.
I've been way behind about typing up notes on my past few loaves. A couple were nothing new and worth making notes on, but two are worth jotting down even if I've forgotten the details.
Lavender Loaf
I decided I wanted to do something different and fun so why not make a multi-flavor sweet milk bread and see what happens. I found out that deliciousness happens!
FULL RECIPE AND CALCULATIONS HERE
One of our closest friends are vegan so it is a fun challenge to have them over for dinner. I still have frozen rhubarb from another friend who lives in the countryside so decided that the sour cherry rhubarb combination was so good it needed to be repeated, but this time without my all butter crust.
I haven’t made a 100% (or pretty close) Durum bread in quite some time. After seeing some excellent posts of recent Durum bakes on TFL I decided to try a new version myself.
I decided to do a 2 step build for the levain to make sure it had a lot of strength to give some nice rise and structure to the Durum flour and it really did make a big difference.
