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My interior tasted wonderful.  The exterior needed to be scraped and scrapped.  I think that the loaves could have over proofed in the fridge.? there was so little rise, no ear at all.  The loaves appeared quite brown before I removed the lids of my Dutch ovens. This is my first hybrid dough.    The bread was very tacky when working with it.  This is KF Pain De Campagne.  The bread did stick to my bannetons.  The joy of a novice not flouring enough! 

Hello everyone,

I believe I have made THE easiest fool-proof recipe for a nice wholesome loaf. I have made it a number of times, and it worked every time, like a dream!

Full recipe and more pictures to come on my blog here

I fired up the WFO oven today.  The lovely weather has put me in the mood to do a little cooking outdoors.

I have been wanting to bake Ken Forkish FWS pizza formula using a poolish ferment.

Friday night I mixed up the poolish for his pizza with the intent of baking them in my wfo oven Sunday.  That's one of the good things about making pizza's 'pizze' :)   You can put it off a day or two and still hopefully have some decent dough to work with.  That's just what happened.  Pizza plans were canceled and we went out Sunday and Monday for the evening.

Tonight's focaccia was delicicous, wonderfully crunchy crush, tender and tasty inside and out. I used a rosemary infused olive oil, parsley and garlic in the dough. Added chopped olives, garlic, salt, and parmesan to the oiled top. Baked it on my stone. Went well with our spaghetti dinner.

All white flour Sourdough at 75% Hydro this time.

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I've been looking for a way to do sourdoughs in the middle of a working week without taking too much time out of a busy schedule. My first attempts involved stretching, folding and shaping the dough in the morning then cold-proving it in the fridge while I was at work for an evening bake, but this was problematic when I started a new job (community neuro-rehab) which demanded an earlier start. Here's the solution, needing only a bit of attention on three successive evenings. I'm using a 100% hydration wholemeal rye starter which I keep in the fridge.