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Consistency vs. Variability

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Aiming for consistent performance while varying the ingredients.

 

First up, breads:

 

20% corn, 30% sprouted durum, 50% kamut, 7% olive, 1% dried basil

 

40% sprouted einkorn, 10% sorghum, 50% blue emmer, 15% hazelnuts, 2% coffee

 

sourdough pan loaf chronicles

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I don’t have a proper oven, In my previous blog posts I would go to my relatives to bake which is not ideal, anyway I found that using a pan loaf is a great way to bake in a “toaster oven”. You also get even slices and it’s easier to store and toast.

My pan is 19.7cm x 10.6cm x 11cm.

First I tried a 340g loaf (300g + the ~40g in the starter) It’s a cute loaf (image above) but you can fit more in there.

Loaded up for Bear!

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Hey, guys.
 What's good? I am off from work next week so, that's always good on my end!
Lets get down to brass tacks. I am pretty proud of this loaded up pie! I made the movie because it's easier. I don't think it will go on my YouTube.

cheese culture sourdough bread experiments

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i only found one online mention of something similar 

here http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/28972/cheese-starter-culture-sourdough-starter

 

but i decided to try and redo/re-approach my experiments that i tried before.

maybe a year ago, i started trying to add cheese cultures to yeast biga and let them sit a while and keep feeding it; (also, with tribasic calcium phosphate Ca3(PO4)2, just in case it helped)

Sandwich Bread

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Had been attempting sandwich bread since before Christmas- constant fails. After lots of research and questions, finally figured out I’d been doing 2 things wrong- underkneading and overproofing. That, and the crappy yeast packets from the grocery store were the culprits. Use only Saf-Instant yeast now and couldn’t be happier. This morning, I made the honey wheat loaves from Allrecipes. I usually do 1 loaf recipes, but this had 2.