Okay this loaf definitely blew a tire and I am not sure why. Overproofed? Underproofed? Poorly shaped? Poorly scored?
This was a simple lean hearth loaf using my new SD starter and following dabrownman's excellent instructions:
http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/34282/modifying-peter-reinharts-recipes-sour-dough-starter
This is a straight dough. Old recipe..regular cup/tsp measures. Sometimes the tried and true is the best. I did wet the shaped dough and pressed the top into the oatmeal,read about it here on TFL ..worked like a charm ! The bread is for a customer so no pic of crumb.
Here is the dough just before going in the oven. c
This is the result of my second try with viennoserie. The croissants are small, because I used a larger amount of dough for the pain au chocolat. The crumb wasnt what I expected. I knead it by hand. The result was a heavier dough and heavier bread. The pain au chocolat weight around 110 grs. The croissants, 44 grs. The taste was very good but I will use a knead machine next time.
A classic German party bread makes for an attractive center piece. Guests can help themselves by pulling apart these pretty little rolls. I wanted to decorate it with sesame and poppy seeds but since poppy seeds aren't available here, I used nigella seeds instead.
Adapted from Eric Treuille and Ursula Ferrigno's book Bread
Now that my new starter is up and running and my wife work mates are requesting more bread I baked again.
20% Whole Wheat Sourdough with Pumpkin Seeds
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20% Whole Wheat Sourdough (for me)….
Breakfast. Hmm. What to do? Cold cereal? Not appealing. Omelette? Appealing, but too fussy. Blueberry pancakes? Ah, that has possibilities. Wait, wait, wasn't there a Cherry-Studded Scone recipe in Clayton's New Complete Book of Breads? Could that be bent just a bit to feature blueberries instead of cherries? Why yes, yes it could!
And so it was:
And so it went:
I thought I should clear out some old bread photos from the last few months that I never got around to posting, along with some more recent ones as well. All but one were taken this year, most have crumb shots, but some don't. Many of these breads were made with a yeasted preferment of some kind, either a poolish, biga, or Pate Fermentee. My starter had been put to bed for a few weeks, mainly to change things up a bit and to play around on the other side of yeasted leavening for a while.
