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Lucy's Jewish Deli Rye - Take 1

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Lucy has wanted to work on a Jewish Deli Rye for some time.   She has really - ever since Varda was trying to come up with the Tzitzel that Pratzels used to make in St. Louis, a bread we too like very much.  My wife and Varda share the same home town and Jewish bakery!

 

Then with Eric Hanner’s passing we made his Eric’s Favorite Rye several times.  No wonder it was his favorite and we like it too.  So my apprentice starts her JDR quest with good underpinnings.

Blue stain soft loaf with blue poppy seeds

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can't help myself, blue is my favorite color!! just have to stain my pretty white loaf ;)

 

of course the blue pea flower for the natural blue . it is for the visual effect :)

to add another dimension of taste, i used lavender sugar.

this is a hokkaido milk loaf recipe made with blue berry YW & SD

 

TFL merch

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I guess I woke up feeling a bit combative this morning... more on that another time. The long and short of it is I put together a bit of TFL merchandise. A t-shirt...

Big thank you

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To the bloggers on this site who inspired me to make fresh blueberry and white chocolate sourghdough with chaia seeds. Cooked in a Dutch oven, which I'd never even heard of before visiting here. Chaia seeds were new to me too as they are not very common in the uk.

Bread has a gorgeous nutty taste and is utterly delicious. My favourite so far.

So big thanks again,

Catherine

Sourdough 50/50 WW/white flour bread with butter and pumpkin seeds

Toast

So after the low yeast version I baked a while ago, I baked some more of those. 

Then I wanted to use my own sourdough culture to bake that bread. 
I had some trouble getting the hydration right, because I feel like the use of baker's percentage is a bit harder when using a sourdough (another source of flour and water) to aim for a certain hydration. 

I used 

300 grams whole wheat flour (50%)

300 grams white flour (50%) \

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

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I can't be a party pooper, so here's enjoyed for dinner today in celebration of CDM!

I don't think chocolate chip cookies are really a Mexican cookie, but we like them occassionally.

 

I brined a lovely organic chicken overnight.  It was cooked in my rotisserie to perfection..so delicious, moist and tender.  If you've never brined your poultry.  Do give it a try.  You'll be very pleased at the difference.