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I've been interested for some time in playing around with durum flour.  Between finding only the coarser semolina grind locally and being put off by the costs of mail ordering, I hadn't taken the plunge before now.  However, totally by serendipity, I happened to be in an IndoPak grocery store recently and they had a whole shelf section of various atta flours, most milled from durum wheat.  A 20-pound bag (only $12.99) followed me home and has been silently taunting me these past two weeks as other things kept me from baking.

While smoking this fine Tuscan Chicken for Sunday dinner, I tossed in 3 Hot Italian sausages about half way through to have some smoked sausages on Monday night.  I forgot we didn’t have any buns and were out of time this morning some SD or YW ones.

Not to be confused with the Lansky-Luciano Gang.

I was okay at best with my first try at the Jewish Sour Rye bread the other day, and learned a lot.  But I was anxious to get back Jack and Do It Again.  And there were lessons learned, which I applied here.

I made the rye sour from some of the leftover ball of rye starter from the other day.  20g along with 375g rye and 375g water.  One stage build - 5 1/2 hours to complete.

Lessons applied:

Stumped upon PDLarry's blog on TFL the other day and thought of having some fun in the kitchen. Couldn't achieve the nice swirl like Larry did as I think I let the custard cooked for too long, so it was too thick of a consistency to be piped out. Though, it tasted great...not too sweet for my liking : ) Thanks for sharing the recipe, Larry! 

This weekend I decided to start to clear out some of the inventory of flours on hand. These loaves are 40%  dark rye,20%Semolina,20% whole white wheat, and 20% AP. Used a hybrid of natural starter and a small amount of commercial yeast. They turned out surprisingly light and very tasty.

Stu

My Dill is shooting up the roof!! So, I decided to use lots of Dill for my bataru and coupe.

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So little work for such a lovely loaf of whole rye sourdough bread.  I have ventured into the world of no-knead breads and much to my surprise I am really pleased with the resulting juicey, flavourful and healthy loaf.  Its made with predominantly whole rye flour, and leavened purely with an active sourdough.  Details you will find on mybreadandbrot.com

Enjoy

A recent comment by fotomat1 led me to the link for PiPs Fighting Gravity blog entry.  I hadn’t seen it before as I had not yet  known of TFL until a number months later.  I was enchanted not simply due to the photographic skill of the pictures, but specifically the photogenic images of his batards.  They struck me as being as beautiful a set of batards as I have ever seen.  So...it was time to give it a go.

Hot on the heels of last week's first attempt and the fantastic welcome I received from everyone I thought I would attempt to make my very first blog post following my second attempt at a sourdough loaf.

The starter used is the same as last week which followed a Paul Hollywood starter recipe using organic grapes to get the natural yeasts flowing, it seems to have survive the week despite my best efforts to ignore it!