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Some things are worth repeating.  Horst Bandel's Black Pumpernickel from Jeffrey Hamelman’s Bread is solidly in that camp. 

We had arranged dinner with friends who will move away soon. During that conversation, I offered to make a bread for them as a going away gift.  Since they enjoy dark, hearty breads, I knew a rye bread was in order.  It took a while to peruse various recipes in several books but Bandel's pumpernickel kept drawing me back.  

Nobody warned me and I didn't see any labels regarding this when I bought flour and basic baking equipment. They really should have......

Last night I told my housemate that I had been feeling really strange all day. I have various medical conditions relating to childhood cancer, so straight away he offered to take me to hospital. My reply was and what exactly  do I tell them ? I'm an addict with withdrawal symptoms.....

I'm going to be in Sydney from the 18th of November before a cruise starting 22nd  around New Zealand calling at Dunedin 27th Nov , Akaroa 28th, Wellington 29th, Napier 30th , Tauranga 1st . Auckland 2nd  and the Bay of Islands 3rd Dec. back to Sydney for  3 days  5th.6th and 7th flying back to Perth Sunday the 8th.

If there are any TFL folk that might like to catch up for a chat and a coffee lets see if we can make it happen.

Kind regards Derek

Hello,

Having issues with tartine sd . I live in Tampa fl, so I am careful with the amount  of h2o.

I am following the recipe in the tartine bread book

The dough is very difficult to form for first forming. 

Any and all help is greatly appreciated. 

Will be starting sourdoughs again as it’s cooling off.

I wanted to see how kneading time can affect the openness of the crumb.

My hypothesis is longer and vigorous kneading will contribute to less open crumb, holding everything else equal.

Using the same starter, same recipe, formula, weight, tools, etc., the only difference was the kneading part (and the number of stretch and folds).

Recipe was adapted from the Perfect Loaf (https://www.theperfectloaf.com/sprouted-buckwheat-sourdough/), but I made a few modifications.

1:?? pm.  Initial mix, no measuring, just by eye. Prairie Gold, Kamut, ground chia seed, 1/10th of a 500 mg vitamin C tablet, no salt yet.  About 1.5 hours autolyse.

3:05 pm. Added 160 g of 100% hydration levain. Still no salt.

3:45 pm. Stretch and fold.

4:05 pm. Folded in 11 g pink Himalayan salt.

6:08 pm. Folded, dusted, put in lined banneton.   About 3 hours bulk ferment: 3:05 - 6:08 pm. 1233 g final weight, 2.72 pounds.

This bread was a real experiment! I had some apples from the farmer's market that I wanted to use, hard apple cider, and apple YW. I had also wanted to make another bread using oat porridge so I decided to do it all taking inspiration from the idea of apple/raisin oatmeal. This bread uses 5 different flours, oat porridge, sourdough levain, YW levain, raisins, hard cider, and grated apple. I kept the hydration at 55% because I was worried that the dough would turn to soup with all of the liquid from the oats and apple. The oats were not cooked, but were soaked overnight in the hard cider.