So we just got back from our two-week vacation in Europe- Spain, France and Holland to be precise.
I'm going to roll through some of the highlights, but if you'd like to see a lot more pictures of the Big Adventure, you can check them out on my Facebook page here.
Peter Reinhart's Pane Siciliano–or, as a friend calls it, Pan Sissy.
Here's the formula in BBGA format using Reinhart's original quantities as listed in the Bread Baker's Apprentice.
(I'm still learning the BBGA format, so please let me know if you spot any errors.)
After reading about Dave's never-ending quest to create the perfect San Francisco Sourdough bread I felt it was time to give his latest recipe a whirl. I have never been to SF so I don't know exactly what the final bread should taste like other than by his description.
Top: The boule
Bottom: A sloppy turkey and jack w/mayo and dijon on seeded sourdough
Made a modified sourdough (with 1/8 tsp active dry yeast for timing) with toasted sesame, poppy and sunflower seeds. Came out great. Thanks to TFL'er Jay and the "The Basic Problem with my sourdough" thread contributors for guidance on my starter.
Formula
Levain:
102 g KAF AP
108 G water
Leaven
Ferment @ 29C (84F) for 9 hrs.
Sponge
Allow to sponge @ 28C (82F) for 3 hours.
Main Dough
It is finally getting a bit warmer here, but nights and mornings are still bitterly cold. We have winds from north, and they chill you to the bone if you're not well packed in. The weather has been beautiful the last couple of days, with clear blue skies and some warmth coming from the sun. Still, things don't thaw up before lunch time, and summer is clearly still a few months away.
ayo tfl-ers
dig my bread this week. twas a good week:
is this photo too big? i changed the dimensions to (800X535) what size do you guys make your pictures for this type of stuff?
and i know all you bread-nerds dig the crumb shots so here you go:
and even closer up:
Had to make a couple of changes to Sweetbird’s hugely fantastic, far better than magnificent, Buckwheat Bread recipe that can be found here:
http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/27784/buckwheatpear-sourdough-pear-hard-cider#comments
