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The last 12 hours has been one of those days. When I mixed up my final dough last night it just seemed wrong. I ran all the numbers and it shouldnt have felt like it did. I had to add flour, but I shouldnt have. Then in all the cleaning and getting the kids to bed I forgot about the dough. Woke up at 430 in the morning realizing I left the dough sitting on the table all night. Fear set in that it would be over-proofed and I wouldnt be able to save it. I went down half asleep, scaled and shaped the loafs. Put them into the brotforms and went back to bed.

It is supposed to rain for the net two days here in the AZ desert but be clear for the Super Bowl on Sunday.  No worries anyway since the stadium has a real grass movable field and a movable roof too.  Still, Lucy was thinking about how beautiful, if dry and desolate, the desert usually is while I was thinking about how much the desert and Lucy’s brain are alike.  It’s odd how the names of her breads come about.

Hello bakers!

Im a long time reader, but finally achieve a bread that Im not ashamed to share with you guys.

This is a Tartine-style bread with some dry figs and brazil`s nuts. Its basically the Tartine recepie from the Weekend Bakery website (weekendbakery.com), so they describe the steps much better than I could do it.

I was intrigued by dabrownman's "more than 15 but less than 30 ingredient challenge" so I decided to give it a try by modifying Reinhart's BBA Basic Sourdough. I bought a package of Bob's Red Mill Whole Grain 10 Grain Hot Cereal, which appears to be coarsely milled whole grains, and chose to substitute 5 oz of starter with 5 oz of dry whole grain (Reinhart's recipe calls for 10.2 oz of preferment, in this bread I used about half as much). I made a bit of a mistake here as I added enough water to soak the grain overnight which totaled 7 oz of water ...

Who could have imagined that the lid of a cheap turkey roaster would give me the confidence to explore whole new areas of shaping and scoring my sourdough loaves? I feel like it’s given my baking stone a new purpose in life.

My starter died this summer due to starvation and neglect. It was watery and foul, but I seem to have revived it after a few feedings.

However, the point of this post is that in 2009 I took a couple of Tbs of this starter and smeared it on a piece of parchment, put it in the oven on the proof cycle (80*F) and left it overnight. The next morning I scraped of the dried flakes, put them in a freeezer bag and into cold storage it went at 0*. I revived them 2 days ago with water and flour; after 3 feedings at 12 hour intervals I have a frothy new starter. Highly recommended procedure.

I have never made this bread before, so I thought I would give it a try. I modified the original recipe a bit, as I have described below. Another TFLer found the recipe, and I used that, with some modifications. The original recipe link shows how to build the 100% rye starter from scratch, but I used my existing starter and saved that step.

With Poolish bread.

turmeric powder 30g, Black sesame 30g

 Poolish

Room  - 14.7ºC

Water  - 28.5ºC

Poolish  Dough  - 24.5ºC

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 Dough

Water  - 41.2ºC

Room  - 22.1ºC

The final dough  - 23.2ºC

Hi !!
These days, I'm testing the flour water salt yeast book
It's the result.

Breakfast this morning: raspberry, blueberry poppy seed muffins. Mix the wet and dry ingredients separately then combine. Gently fold in the blueberries. Fill prepared muffin tins half way, then press a whole, large raspberry in the center and fill up the tins. Bake @ 400F for 20 minutes turning at the half. Enjoy!!!

 Super easy:

1 cup flour

6 Tbs sugar

2 Tbs poppy seeds

1 t baking pow

1/2 t baking soda

1/2 t salt

1 egg

1/2 cup raspberry yogurt

2 Tbs canola oil

1 t lemon extract