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I really like the effect that using a Tangzhong has on the bread. It helps the bread stay fresher longer and I find the crumb to be a little more moist.

I usually use water to make the Tangzhong which is typically 5 parts water to one part flour. I decided to try something new and used a nice Merlot wine in place of the water. It worked out great and gave the final dough a subtle wine flavor but not overpowering.

This was a very high hydration dough I probably could have cut the water down 20% and still had an excellent overall bake.

These are our "I want a sweet treat but I'm really not supposed to be eating sweet treats so what can I do to have a sweet treat without having too much sweet" go to cookies. Around here we tend to call them our "hippy cookies"

Sugar free and no butter.

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I’ve been busy in the kitchen recently and today had two things to bake.  For this SD Roman Pizza, I’ve made adjustments to my pizza formula to increase hydration by 3% and increase the PFF from the original 8% to 15%.  Next time I’ll up that again just so the dough will be ready for baking early enough for our typical early dinner time.

Hi! This is a post regarding the site refresh (that I'm cross-posting to the old site as well so I don't have to keep recreating it every time we do a migration)

As you are likely aware, Floyd's been working on a site upgrade for the past several weeks (months!).

I hope everybody had a good holiday. Welcome to 2025. :)

As I've mentioned before, the software that this site runs on is being put out to pasture. No more security updates, the development community has moved on. I've held this site back as long as I've felt like I could, but it has come time to get the site onto the newer platform.

After my first rushed attempt at a naturally leavened panettone without much research, I decided to try again, but with more planning and using what I think is a more respected formula, with all due respect to Gluten Morgen. However, I am still reluctant to try to build a LM. I invigorated a new 50% hydration version of my starter over two days with feedings of 1:0.5:1 at 82°F to ensure that it could triple in 4 hours. To deal with the overnight, I decided to try using a sweet 50% starter by adding sugar to equal 50% of the water (not the flour).

I recently bought some stone milled flour from a local mill and also came back from a trip to Japan where I visited a few sake breweries, which renewed my interest in sakadane (a starter made from koji rice, which is also sometimes called malted rice). So I thought, why not combine the two all at once? That was not the brightest idea I've ever had, but here we are lol.

As mentioned in my intro post, I finally managed to sort it all out and just need to fine tune the things.

To start, this was attempt #1:

Hi TFLers! It's that time of the year again that I have little more time to post. Pasta and phyllo are still my obsessions these days. This is not bread but I still wanna share some of my adventures with you.

I made the Naturally Leavened Brioche-Style Kugelhopf by Maurizio Leo. It cames out great! Wonderful recipe, I highly recommend. I'm the only one in my family that likes dried fruit, so I added very little. I soaked dried apricots in brandy and added some macadamia nuts. I'm really happy with the way it came out and the Nordic Ware Kugelhopf pan was perfect.

I have only posted hearth loaves so far because that's where the bulk of my experimentation goes on, but I do bake soft loaf pan bread for my kids twice a week. Preparing breakfast and lunch sandwiches for the kids five days a week means a lot of bread, and I prefer to know what goes into this significant part of their diet!

The usual formula for the kid's bread is simple. For a 1.1kg loaf, I combine 25% whole grain with 75% bread flour, milk, 1.5g yeast, 10g salt, 2 tablespoons of butter, and 1 tablespoon of sugar, around 77% hydration.