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Due to creative differences I am moving on from Chester St Kitchen to pursue a new venture ... I wish all the team at Chester St the very best for the future.

... stay tuned I guess :)

Happy baking everyone

Phil

Hi FOLKS

I responded to a post by Khalid the other day that started with reference to flour bags  and a job as an apprentice of cutting up the heavy hessian bags that the rye flour and rye meal used to come in, they were 150lb bags in those far off days.The hand mits are used by the men working the 40 - 50 tray travelling ovens also the 40 tray peel ovens for protection from the hot tins or trays but also needing to have their hands and fingers free for alternately loading the oven.

hands free to pick up things  tins or trays  to load ovens

I found a WW levain lurking in the back of the fridge.  It had been there for at least a week and maybe two.  It was a 100% hydration one since the hooch had separated out and was lying on top.  We poured off the liquid and fed it twice with multigrain flour and water on 4 hour intervals and it doubled in 2 hours after the last feeding.  So what to do with it?

75% Hydro, 20% HG Flour, 3% Whole Wheat Flour

Tasty Bread but since my wife wanted something with "a little less big holes" so her mustard wouldn't drip out, I had to add a little HG Flour. Turned out well.

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Kaiser Rolls first try. I portioned the dough out to 4 oz and proffed for an hour but not as big as I wanted them, next time.

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Cheers,

Wingnut

Recently I posted on a bake of Syd's Asian style pain de mie, and Janet commented that she was going to make it with her white whole wheat home milled flour.   I decided to try something similar.    Instead of white whole wheat, I used my golden flour which is home milled hard red whole wheat with some of the bran and some coarse flour sifted out.    I believe the closest official name to this would be high extraction flour, probably around 90%.

Hi folks 

i recently wanted to test the amount of yellow colour that i could obtain from a natural source for a future bake , We are going to host a Cancer Council fundraiser  Australia's biggest  cuppa and the Cancer Councils colour is yellow!

i decided to try using Tumeric  so i mixed my usual sour dough  3-2-1 flour- water - culture with 2% salt and 1% tumeric the results are seen below the idea was to also see if the tumeric was detectable as on the day i am making cinnamon scrolls and some fruitless sweetbuns.

baked this a while ago.. came out beautiful. (will be back to furnished the formula and the rest .. ) 

have to clean up and cook dinner now 

cheers

evon

am back.. this is what i did

Flour

sprouted 300g organic black rice (total 4 days)

200g drained and cold dry in the fridge.. then blend till fine.

(100g left for add in)

150g organic coconut flour ( just love how this flour gives a good crunch after toast, fragrant as well) 

150g bob's red mill organic wholewheat flour

250g strong bread flour 14% protein

Late last year, I posted about the availability of Green River Organic Whole Wheat flour at a KC, MO Costco. I thought organic, stoneground, and $8 for a 10 pound bag might be of interest to others who live in the KC area and have access to a Costco. PMcCool was the first to post that he had purchased a bag and enjoyed both working with the flour and consuming the results of his labors.

Ever since i started baking bread at home, I have been baking with rye flour quite judiciously. Rye flour sold for retail on the shelves of supermarket chains in Dubai, and the UAE in general ,is mostly exclusively Doves farm organic rye flour. The flour is quite expensive given that it is organic: US$ 3.4 per Kg. I continued baking with it for years, with beautiful results and excellent finished products, until today.