Three days off in a row... a luxury after months of none or one at a time, you can imagine how much I was looking forward to them. We are just two at home, so bread gets baked, cooled, sliced and frozen, then used as needed. I looked in the freezer a week ago only to find it was nearly empty of bread. Good news for these hands!
Hello all, my first blog post here.
I've been baking bread from Ken Forkish's "Flour Water Salt Yeast" for over a year now, almost exclusively sticking with the basic yeast recipes. I'm going to start dabbling in leavens this week.
This bread is a 50% rye and whole wheat literally ground right into the mixing bowl. Autolysed 30 min then added starter from the fridge, a little sorghum syrup and salt. 3 S&F 15 min apart and let ferment 3.5 hours. Shaped and let proof 2 hours. Baked in a DO.Taste is good but could have been improved with the addition of seeds or nuts.
Next on the agenda is a side by side bake of Red Fife and Turkey Red to see if there is a difference. Just got the grain yesterday.
Stu
Happened to be in the Bay Area after Christmas this year for a vacation, and was passing through Petaluma on a weekday, so decided to swing by Keith Giusto Bakery Supply, which is tucked into a corner of an industrial park in Petaluma.
I enjoyed making Injera so much that I thought I would try the Moroccan version. It is much lighter because it uses semolina and plain flour. I also added 3 tablespoons of toasted sesame seeds to the batter.
Moroccans have them with a melted butter and honey sauce or farm cheese. We had them for dinner with soft white cheese and grape tomatoes. This morning we grilled them ever so lightly and had them like pancakes, with maple syrup, cinnamon and lemon. Delicious.
This recipe is for those of you who are experimenting with adding porridges to your dough. You can substitute most any grain into the porridge with good results. The recipe follows the now standard Robertson/Forkish formula for closed vessel baking. The result is a nice, moist and chewy crumb with a solid crust.
Semolina Porridge Bread
Makes 2 loaves of about 1 Kg each
Refresh natural starter at 100% hydration to yield at least 200 gm ( I use 100 gm flour, 100 gm slightly warm water and 30 gm starter)
Those are quickly made and my family loves them , so do I :)
500g strong bread flour
150ml milk
150ml hot water * just boiled *
100g soft butter * NOT melted * cut into small cubes
1 egg
1 ½ tsp salt
1tsp sugar
2tsp dry yeast
2tsp vanilla extract
Put all your dry ingredients in the bowl of your Stand Mixer with the dough hook attached
Give them a quick mix with the dough hook.
Let the Stand Mixer run on the lowest setting * for me it is 1 on my KMix *
Yeah, I know. I've posted my version of these SJSD's before. But I have a new oven (again). I recently posted my first two bakes with the new oven, the Tartine Country Bread done up as baguettes. I was a bit perplexed as to how long the baguettes took to bake: 32 minutes at 300g each. Way too long in my book. And I wondered whether it was the oven, or me or the dough, or or or... So I needed to return to a reliable workhorse for a comparison bake.
