I have finally managed to translate in English this article I published in my Romanian blog about the history of bread and bakeries. My source was the book ”The History of Food” by Maguellone Toussaint-Samat.
I hope you will find it useful.
Bordelaise, nothing special, surprisingly heavy, probably over-mixed. Good for soup.
Husband preferred Field Blend # 1( in the back) , less bitter than T3, but thought both were very good. There is a little more wheat in the T3, might be the difference.
At least I didn't chuck any to the birds :)
This bread is a different version of a formula that Lucy dreamt up back last May that we liked very much and can be found here:
I decided to use up the last of my surplus eggnog and try to improve over the recipe in my previous post.
Here's the recipe I used:
Ingredients
for the dough...
450 grams all purpose flour
450 grams eggnog (Southern Comfort brand)
1.5 teaspoons instant yeast
1.5 teaspoons salt
100 grams raisins
for the icing...
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons orange juice
0.5 teaspoons dried lemon peel
Procedure
I first warmed the eggnog to around room temperature.
The dough is from here. But I only had white four so... wasn´t really country dough. Made the sauce myself which turned out pretty good. Got the sauce recipe from here. I made a nasty mistake with the dough though. Lets just say the outside of the pie crust ended up much thicker then the middle. Live and learn I suppose.
Gluten is the name for one of the two main structural components in any wheat dough or batter; the other being starch, something much more important in rye doughs.
It is a protein based material made from the bonding of two structural proteins in the wheat kernel, that I'll call G1 and G2.
In the presence of water G1 and G2 link up in a chemical bond that is both strong and stable, limited only by the amount of water available to G1 and G2.
Hey all I just wanted to post a couple pics of a daily sourdough that I've been practicing. The recipe and shaping advice came from a fellow TFL user and I am quite happy with the results. The bread is 20%whole wheat, 70% hydration, developed using Stretch n Folds, and is shaped, then retarded overnight and baked cold in a hot dutch oven at 450 with lid on for 13 min and then lid off for 25 more min.
It's true I have neglected the blog. Certain friends (Taiwanese software engineer that you are) have commented on it, and so I have decided to re-launch with a two-part tutorial. This part will be an over-all review of bread making as I understand it.
Anyone that has tried to learn baking, either from a text or from a teacher has heard of the “steps”, the twelve steps of baking. I think of these steps in four movements; mixing, fermentation, shaping, and baking.
Mixing
mise en place
mixing
Shaping
dividing
Lower left is Bordelaise from French Culinary Inst. 10% rye, 69% hydration, machine mixed.