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In my opinion, the formula for 5-Grain Levain by itself fully justifies the price of Jeffrey Hamelman's Bread. This is just one of several formulas for multigrain breads in the book. I believe I have made all the levain-based ones, and I haven't found one that wasn't scrumptious. I think my very favorite is actually the one that uses a rye sour for leavening. 

   One of my good baking friends from "Brot & Bread" and The Fresh Loaf posted her version of the Plotziade challenge which is to use the same exact %'s of flour and salt to build a bread.  The kicker is you can use yeast, a starter, biga, etc. and any hydration you would like.  You can see Karin's amazing bread here,  Below is some more information I borrowed form Karin's post (I hope she won't sue me for plagiarism :))

Spelt, honey, and walnuts seem to like each other's company, as demonstrated very happily by this bake. It's true that the scoring leaves a lot to be desired and the loaves could have come out of the oven sooner. Regardless, the crumb was moist and the taste more delicate than the ingredients might suggest, just right for sandwiches in fact.

This loaf was made with Gold Medal white whole wheat flour. It was baked in an oversize loaf pan (10"x 5") with the final baked weight at 2 pounds. The dough was quite slack (78% absorption). In the past, I have had less oven spring with stone ground flour (being fairly coarse in nature), but lately the volume has improved. Re-mix time has been reduced to 3minutes 45 seconds, with good results. And the flavor of the stone ground flour is superior to fine ground (in my opinion).

Bob

Hello one and all.

Just thought i'd share some pictures of the bread i've been churning out of my home kitchen. 

Having a day job is annoyingly getting in the way of my new bakery venture. But I work for a college, so in the summer I'll hopefully be baking full time in a real oven in a premises. But until then, I'm like a micro bakery I suppose. Anyway, here are those pictures:

Mini 'Field loaf'

Field Loaf for deliveries.

MORRRNNIINNGGGG!!

I have posted a new blog entry on my first order here. Check it out!!

http://thesnapery.wordpress.com/2014/03/23/191/

RPS. x

This week I have a baking theme of Yellow, baked a Pumpkin Loaf and a pumpkin bagel with sprouted wheats

Heres the formula i used for pumpkin loaf. The Toasted pumpkin seeds compliment really well with this bread, giving it a nutty kick!! fantastic with veg and veg burger.

I made zolablue's (Dan Leader's) semolina sandwich loaf. It definitely had some rising power!

Proofing for only 30 minutes

Baking in the oven

Here's my result, the edges got a little misshapen due to the towel in my banneton, and the parchment paper in the dutch oven, I was trying to follow the directions as close to the letter as possible for my first attempt. 

I didn't get consistently giant holes like everyone else seems to, but that's ok, the bread tastes great, and I now can use it for grilled cheese sandwiches without worrying about setting off the damn smoke detector.