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Wife Needed Bread to Make Thanksgiving Leftover Turkey and Cranberry Sandwiches for Lunch

I’m looking for any excuse to make bread even if I can’t eat it as much as I would like – at least not yet at any rate.  My wife was out of her store bought, fake, whole wheat Oroweat bread that she loves so much so I was able to bake her a loaf of SD and poolish bread to tide her over.

I got roped into making another Thanksgiving Dinner this past Sunday since we had Thanksgiving at Cousin Jay’s and the girls missed their favorite sides of of sweet and Yukon gold mashed potatoes, Brownman’s killer Cognac gravy, bacon, itty bitty onions and Brussels Sprouts and the ever popular candied carrots and butternut squash with brown sugar and maple syrup but we also missed the home made rolls.

 Xmas batch # 3. One more batch of this same recipe and I’ll have all my Xmas orders done! ?

Makes 3 loaves

 INGREDIENTS

770 g unbleached flour

110 g high extraction Red Fife flour (Mill 125 g Red Fife berries and sift. Save the bran for the levain.)

50 g freshly ground flax

1 tsp vital wheat gluten

620 g filtered water + 25 g

180 golden raisins (sultanas)

180 dried cranberries

35 g plain yogurt

2 tsp ground cinnamon

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Flour Ingredients

• 45% Kamut Khorasan
• 45% Winter Hard Red W

I said starting to , not nearly as knowledgeable as many on here but having fun.

A simple sourdough boule, 65% hydration, 20% liquid levain. I used 100% buratto flour from Mulino Marino and there was no cold fermentation.  I figure I've been making some version or other of this loaf now for over 25 years. I guess that means I'm getting old. Hopefully I'm getting better. That's the thing with bread, there is always another loaf and it always has something to teach you. Funny how the simplest things are the most elusive. Happy Monday everyone....

This is what happens when I combine my top three favourite flour in one bake.

20% Sprouted Quinoa 10% Barley Sourdough

Dough flour (all freshly milled):

210g      70%       Whole spelt flour

60g        20%       Sprouted white quinoa flour

This is baking batch #2 of the Xmas sourdough orders. 

I want to thank Wendy (Lazy Loafer) for outlining her method of bulk fermentation in the fridge and proofing/baking the next morning in her posts as I used this for the first time to accommodate my schedule. 

Recipe

Makes 3 loaves

696 g unbleached flour

4 g vital wheat gluten 

250 g high extraction red fife flour (I milled 285 g of red fife berries and sifted it. Save the bran for the levain)

I'm planning on doing some regular weekend baking and started this weekend with a batch consisting of a 70% hydration sourdough shaped in several ways. This batch made a boule, batard, baguettes, dinner rolls and sandwich rolls. 12% WW flour and 7% rye flour.

My wife and daughter said I had to make Thanksgiving Dinner on Sunday a few days late because they missed our dressing, sides and especially the Cognac gravy for the sweet and golden potato smashed that wasn't served at cousin Jay's.  I missed the brown sugar carrot and butternut squash and braised / baked little cabbages.known as Brussels Sprouts.  For the dressing,  we always mix some yeast white, cornbread and some sourdough for the dressing bread mix.