Edit: embedding photos from Google didn't work, so here's a link to a gallery on imgur: https://imgur.com/a/xmVyw
Of course, if you're reading this is you're probably only after the money shot, so here it is:
I'm (essentially) following the Tartine recipe for whole wheat:
Ingredients:
800g bread flour, 200g organic sprouted spelt flour
674g cool water mix with 1 Tbsp apple cider vin
300 g 100% hydration active San Francisco sourdough starter
1 Tbsp diastatic malt powder
15g salt
100g pate fermentee
Method
1) Feed starter: mix 100g levain with 100g water and 100g bread flour for 4.5 hours.
2) At the same mix flour, dry malt, and water in a food safe container, autolyse for 4.5 hours.
Hello TFLers! I missed you all along with baking and posting here. I realized that teaching is also one of my passions and I want to teach formally so I decided to study again. Yes, I am studying now to have units in education to be able to take the licensure exam and hopefully pass it so I can teach in a local high school. What's better than having a "job" where you can combine two or more of your passions; I might just teach cooking or even baking.
Just a short post, I'm in the middle of test construction and I just really want to hear from you again.
No idea if this is the right place to do this, but I want to start keeping better track of my bakes. Before I start, I want to clear my brain of the hazy memories from the past couple months of bread baking.
Phase 0: Bob's Red Mill loaves
On a whim I decided to try baking bread from one of the bagged kits from Bob's Red Mill. Multi-grain, or 9 grain, or something like that. Throw the ingredients in the Kitchen Aid, follow the instructions, and tasty bread results!
Phase 1: Whole Wheat Sandwich loaves
It's been a while. Baked a bunch of Moon Cakes the other day, we even found a matching box.
Since it is customary to give them away I only had the opportunity to eat 4 and I am pretty happy how they turned out.
Just a quick shot of the Mohnstritzel (Poppy Seed Roll) I baked today.
The hardest part was finding poppy seeds, my wife had the ingenious idea to check the local Halal store and voila, a bag a poppy seeds.
