My work schedule is set up so that I get every other Friday off. Or, as my employer puts it, I'm on a 9/80 work schedule. That means Mondays through Thursdays are 9 hours a day, one Friday is 8 hours, and the following Friday is off. I love it. Having a 3-day weekend every other week is a wonderful thing.
As mentioned in my other post, I was busy baking a ton (for me) of loaves today. This is Oats 4 Ways recipe. It also makes 2 large loaves or 3 small ones. Bake for a shorter time if making the smaller ones.
1. Toast 75 g rolled oats and then soak overnight in 150 g of boiling water.
2. Soak 75 of oat groats overnight in 150 of boiling water.
It was like a baking marathon session today. I can only bake 2 loaves at a time and I had 10 loaves to bake! I more than doubled up on what I usually do because I can't bake next weekend and I wanted to give a couple of loaves away to friends and family.
So the first set of 5 loaves were this multigrain and sprouted wheat sourdough. This makes 2 large loaves or 3 small ones.
1. Sprout 75 g of hard spring wheat berries. I used an old variety called Selkirk. This took a few days. When the tails were as long as the berry, I put them in the fridge.
This is my first attempt at sourdough. It's just a plain loaf proofed for about 20 hours in a round banneton, then adjusted a little bit to make a more rectangular shape. I was a little bit disappointed with the oven spring, but I think that was because I didn't leave my Dutch oven to heat up for long enough, Because i was getting a little impatient. Other than that I'm very happy with it.
Please let me know what you think, criticism more than welcome, also, would I be better buying a rectangular banneton, or is it fine to adjust the shape just before baking?
To my honey corn bread recipe I have upped the jalapeno from one to two. Not a lot of heat from these peppers up here in moose country, but they added a nice crunch, as did the corn kernels I added. The final add was old cheddar diced fine.
Lucy started off to do a more complicated bread by getting the 5 grain sprouts going on Wednesday but we forgot about the new Fig Yeast Water we started last Friday from the re-hydration soaking water left over from last week’s bake. We wanted to include it in a SD / YW combo bake but it took a day longer than planned to get up to full ramming speed.
Hello TFL'rs on this late night! Wanted to share with you all my bake of the day. So I decided to make a "Honey Whole-Wheat Sandwich Loaf". I used K.A.F whole wheat flour and a little bit of K.A.F white whole wheat, this recipe I found used a "sponge" and what made the dough have great taste was the use of good raw and wild honey and melted butter and salt. I couldn't wait to slice into the loaf and taste the reward of a little patience (ate those slices in the picture right away with peanut butter on one slice ;p). Happy baking all!! . Here is the link.
I made these cookies using my great aunt's famous secret recipe. It feels like a betrayal to post it here but it also feels like a betrayal to post this picture without adding a recipe so if anyone is interested, let me know and I'll post in the comments. These are so good and highly requested that my aunt, no matter how old and tired she gets, makes over twenty batches during the holidays and gifts them to friends, family, and neighbor. Growing up I'd sit on the kitchen floor with her for hours and decorate and snack on hundreds of these.
