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My second loaf on TFL. This time, with an increased bulk ferment, slightly decreased inoculation, and, taking the advice of Alison Kay, increased salt.

Final Ingredients
   1.6 oz    Starter: 100%H Sourdough, Fed separately
   8.0 oz    Flour: Hard Red Wheat K.A.F.
   6.8 oz    Water: Cold, Filtered
   1-2 tsp  Salt: Fresh Cracked Sea Salt

Inspired by the Bourke Street Bakery’s Spiced Fruit recipe posted on this page: http://youcandoitathome.blogspot.com/2011/06/bourke-street-bakerys-spiced-fruit.html. I have baked this before but course, I have to change things up a bit by subbing out some of the raisins for cranberries and soaking the dried fruit in tea. I am also using a mixer now rather than slap and folds. 

Makes 3 loaves

 INGREDIENTS

770 g unbleached flour

So my baguette are looking nice and tasty. Crisp, blown and nicely colored top and with a nice brown bottom... however, the side of the baguettes is slighlty undercooked, the crust is really soft and does not get brown.

I leave a good 5cm between each 250gr baguettes.

Am I placing them too close to each other?

Their first egg was eaten by ravens and their 2nd one was eaten by a ring tail but hopefully they will pay more attention to their eggs from now on!  They are beautiful Bbids to watch.

https://www.azgfd.com/wildlife/viewing/webcamlist/baldeagle/baldeaglecam/

There are the dreams of night that are forgotten with the morning coffee; and, there are the dreams that come as one considers the bread one is eating with morning coffee. Thus, one steps forth in the bright morning light, to find the 7 Pillars of Wisdom. (T.E.L. will forgive me because one of the best breakfast breads I ever had was in Hafer Al-Batin.)

Josey Baker Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread

David Snyder

February, 2019

Small Batch equals Small Bread

I thought that the dough was at the 1.75-ish cup point, thus I heated the forge, put it in wet parchment. Took out the heated cast iron, placed it in, poured in a half a cup of water under the parchment and started the usual 450 after 500 for 20 then for 30. Herein is the result, small, unimpressive, with no 'boom' really. 

"You succeed you learn something, you fail you learn something."

I followed Dabrownman's advice to the letter. 

Well friends, my second Forkish effort in as many weeks from "Flour, Water, Salt and Yeast." This is a robust bread. Baking in the Dutch oven really gives a snap to the crust, while the crumb is open soft and shred able. Boy did the loaf ever snap, crackle and pop when I removed from the hot DO to the cooling rack!

A couple of weeks ago I made the Tomato & Nigella seed loaf from Emanuel Hadjiandreou"s book "How to bake bread".  I was drooling over the photos and decided then I would make 2 more of these recipe's next bake.  So yesterday I prepped the levain in the morning and then about 2 pm started mixing dough.  I also did 300 slap and folds instead of 200.  It was about 31 deg C outside here, so I had to watch the dough carefully.  I won't detail method as it was fairly standard with 45 minutes between coil folds.  Bulk ferment until about 70% bigger, 20 minute res