My quest for a passable baguette continues. To recap: In an attempt to improve my baguette skills, I'm making the Baguettes with Poolish formula from Hamelman's Bread every weekend until I get it right(-ish). Following my experience from week 1, I made two changes:
This is a three bake weekend for me, and I thought I'd offer this shot of the midpoint of it all.
From right to left: Poolish Baguettes, fresh out of the oven. A bag of sourdough bagels (the BBA formula), baked this morning for breakfast. And a batch of dough for Vermont Sourdough with Increased Whole Grain, currently in the bulk fermentation stage to be baked tomorrow.
If you keep your bread ends around to use up, here's a great way :) Hint: weekend breakfast or brunch is in the bag!
Weekend Breakfast Strata
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Love,
Cathy B.
Autumn is truly here, and every tree is decked out in breathtaking yellow and red colours. This is one of my favourite parts of the year, where afternoons are best spent strolling among the autumn leaves on silent sidewalks and catching every last bit of warmth the sun can muster.
Hello and Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating this weekend!
I tried shaping breads as Pumpkins for the occasion.
I tried this recipe first:
http://www.wildyeastblog.com/2007/10/16/world-bread-food-day/
substituting 75% stone-ground whole wheat and 25% bread flour for the high extraction flour,
substituting canned pumpkin for the sweet potato,
substituting flax seed for pumpkin seed
Hey all! Bread rises faster at high altitude. Do you think that sourdough starter would rise faster when you are doing builds, etc.?
The question never occurred to me until today. Thanks, Pam
Trying to get pix and comment together. oh boy! I think I did it. (Now if I can just remember how I did it) Hooray from Pam (hghmtnpam)
Me and My grand daughter EMILY aged 4 baking mini pizzas 2010
What fun we had and lunch to boot
I was always amused as an apprentice that in the award rates for bakers there was a category for single handed baker i could just imagine some poor soul that had been in a loosing argument with the dough dividing machine. Of course it actually referred to a baker employed on wages working alone doing the whole kit and caboodle.
