This bake took place on Labor Day weekend. My pullman pans were silently mocking me from their perch in the cupboard, reminding me that the last time I used them, the loaves had ears. Or eaves. That isn't supposed to happen with pain de mie. Chalk it up to overfilling the pans.
So I just keep on baking and we are back to whole grains. Really wanted to make a wholegrain ciabatta and just sorta winged it together and built a Levain off of my White Seed. A few changes might make this a bit more simplified but I'll write as i did (which was a bit whacky) and follow with a few changes.
Total Flour: 1075 : 500 Hard White Wheat (46.5%) 500 Whole Spelt (46.5%), 75 White Bread Flour (7%)
Total H20: 925 + 28 (roughly used during folds) 88.6% hydration
Total Dough: 2040 (4 @ 510 g)
sunny dahlias in the gorgeous Volunteer Display Garden at WSU-Mount Vernon
beautiful orchard fruit, grown by the Western Washington Fruit Research Foundation at WSU-Mount Vernon
Hello everyone,
Day 2 of the Conference had so many good things going on.
Notes on the seminars and talks I was fortunate to attend on Day 2 follow:
Keynote Address – “Grow It! Mill It! Bake It!: Adding Value Adds Up” – Thor Oechsner
“Flatbreads from the Tandoor Oven” – Naomi Duguid and Dawn Woodward
local wheat, ripening in the sun
Hello everyone,
I attended the third annual Kneading Conference West this past weekend – a celebration of local wheat and grains, and a wonderful gathering of people interested in breeding, growing, milling and baking with them.
In other news, I've recently become the proud owner of an Ankarsrum Original, AKA Electrolux DLX, mixer. Mike Avery did a great review of it compared to a Kitchenaid or a Bosch mixer a few years back, which really helped me make up my mind when I was first considered an upgrade.
I just got back from the 2013 Kneading Conference West at the Washington State University Mount Vernon Extension Campus.
(My write up of last year's conference, which gives quite a bit of background about it, is here.) 
So I was at the market the other day and saw a hollowed out wooden oblong bowl and I said to myself, I can proof bread in that! So I did. The big Loaf is 1000grams.
[URL=http://s1292.photobucket.com/user/Steelhead503/media/Baking/916bake1_zpsde7c9ee8.jpg.html]
[/URL]
Dear fellow TFL bakers, I have a challenge for you!
During our recent trip to Germany we spent a few days in Potsdam, to visit Frederick the Great's Sanssouci. We stayed at Schlosshotel Cecilienhof, a wonderful hotel right inside another historic site, Cecilienhof Palace.
Cecilienhof Palace
