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Since I had some levain left over from my other bakes and I hate throwing good stuff out, I weighed it and decided that 125 g was enough for a 1-2-3 loaf. 

I just threw all of the following stuff together, no autolyse, into a bowl and right into fermentation:

125 g half rye, half AP levain

250 g warm water

200 g unbleached flour 

120 g white wholewheat 

55 g kamut

7 g salt

My pottery instructor gave me some of her organic apples so I dehydrated them in the hopes of making bread with them. So surfing TFL, I found DAB's Apple Prune Bread and took my inspiration from that. 

I soaked separately 150 g dried cranberries and 50 g dried Apple bits. I toasted 50 g walnuts, 20g chia seeds and 20 g flax seeds. After a whirl in the mini chopper, the chia seeds were soaked in 60 g water and the flax in 40 g water. 

I am super pleased with the oven spring on this one. This is a variation of Tartine 3's Flax Sunflower Bread. 

I toasted 140 g of sunflower seeds and 140 g of flax seeds. I gave the flax a whirl in my mini chopper and then soaked them overnight in 180 g of water. 

This weekend, I wanted to make a rye bread to go with smoked fish, and, since I was refreshing my rye sour anyway, I also made a pain au levain with a rye starter. The rye is another Berliner Landsbrot (thank you Stan Ginsberg). The Pain au levain is a formula posted quite a while back by Hansjoakim. Formulas for both are available on TFL.

Seitan

For most of you on The Fresh Loaf site, “vital wheat gluten” is an essential ingredient used to get that additional rise in whole wheat bread.  That was my experience as well until about six months ago.  Now, “vital wheat gluten” is the key ingredient I use to make Seitan or “Wheat Meat!”

it's been awhile. was busy moving to a new home and now that i have kinda settled down at a new place, it was time to try out the new oven.

If porridge loaves = “yum” and seeded loaves = “yum”, then porridge + seeds = “YUM” or “yum x 2”? Well, I’m not sure how mathematically sound that equation/formula/hypothesis (or whatever) is, but I decided to try it out.  

Formula: 

Well I finally got what I was looking for with this bake!  Pretty much the same mix as the last two bakes of this recipe, but somehow with the first two, I got lazy and used a muffin tin. Buns were fine, but not pull apart shred able.

Can someone translate: "Refresh 100% starter to yield +200 grams for the next morning.  Overnight room temps can be 60F.  Use 50 gm whole wheat, 50 gm AP, 100 gm H2O and 30 gm natural leaven at 100% hydrations."  I REALLY want to make the steel cut oat bread posted here, but have only been baking for about 6 months and have not graduated to the % method... use recipes that prescribe grams.  Can someone help?

This is a nice moist and flavorful rye perfect for a pastrami or corned beef sandwich.

The addition of the Greek Yogurt and potatoes really made this very moist and the combination of rye flour and First Clear made this extra tasty.