So I've been baking breads for some years now and experimenting with various recipes.
Today I've been working on these English Muffins as well as my version of Theresa Greenway's Griffin's Bread.
The versions I'm making are 62% and 68% hydrations respectively.
Most of the time I use a KA mixer with C-hook to knead.
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About a year ago when my in-laws from Switzerland visited, they brought a crown and plastic doll with them, accessories necessary for a "Drei Koenigs Kuchen" (3 Kings Cake).
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I tried making Karin's Dinkel Walnussbrot and really enjoyed the texture and flavor of this bread.
Thank you, Karin, for your recipe and technique!!!
I wanted to try making Spelt bread again - I saw these recipes, that used blueberries (yum!) as an ingredient:
Shao-Ping's Caramelized Hazelnut and Blueberry Spelt Sourdough
and Farine's Apple Blueberry Bread with Spelt
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Awhile ago I'd found elra's post on wildyeastblog.com about Bara Brith - I've been wanting to try making this lovely-sounding fruit-and-spice Welsh 'speckled' bread ever since.
I've got Elizabeth David's English Bread and Yeast Cookery on loan from the libary; there's a recipe for Bara Brith in her book too.
This is my variation of Bara Brith, based on elra's and Elizabeth's.
I was delighted with the light, cakey, tender and flavorful! result:
This formula is adapted from Wild Yeast's great recipe here: http://www.wildyeastblog.com/2008/07/28/sourdough-ciabatta-rolls/, with the following changes:
1. Increased the hydration to 85%
As part of the plan to try using up 5 kilos of potato that we have, I turned to Bourke Street Bakery cookbook for Mr Potato Bread.
This was the first time I followed BSB's method of starter built, i.e. number of feedings and amount of starter. In the past, whenever I made the sourdough from BSB, I adapted Hamelman's method.
I made a fresh supply of candied orange peels for my spring holiday baking. I find the video on you tube, by yanghalying, very intertaining and instructive. By using her method for candied peels, I have excellent results, firm, colorful and tasty candy peels, for oranges and lemons.
After I had fried up some onions for dinner the bottom of the pan looked and smelled so good with the carmelized onions. So I put a little water in it, mashed up some roasted garlic, and used it in my autolyse for this bread. It smelled heavenly in the oven.
