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I don't prefer breads with cream/milk/egg but my friends have Asian tastes so I'm trying this for them. I love rustic breads because they are more healthy and they look really cool and sexy...

I tried this recipe before but in order to kneed it to max (as below pic. I don't know how to say it in English) easily I added more water than original recipe. It worked but it was hard for me to final shape it (especially if I want to braid it with the same dough for my toast) even after I put flour in my hand when dong final shape.

French style milk loaf... If you prefer milk bread that's less fluffy, this one is for you.

French style  milk bread.  Chess table painted by my kids...

Ive just completed 8 days in Poland and I'm headed to Moscow on my second annual European baking tour.  Here are a couple of videos I made during my time in two Polish bakeries.  Enjoy ;)

-Mark

Just when I'm about to give up. God gave me this method to use for baking lean breads without an oven. This is my last attempt for "European style hearth breads" though pretty good, look-wise and taste-wise it still wasn't the same. It had a burnt "muddy" taste with slightly underdone crumb that is tight despite a very wet dough but I'm pretty contented with it.

I had some two-week old dough sitting in the fridge -- enough to make a pizza (maybe 250 grams), and decided that I would add it to my bread dough. It stunk of beer and I was not sure what it would do.  I regretted doing so almost immediately, as I did my first stretch and fold 10 minutes after incorporating it with the levain and salt.  When I went to lift the dough my hand went right through the middle of it.  It was like I created a super weak dough structure.

My 2nd sourdough bread...

The inside of the bread tastes good (raisin + honey + a little rye flour + flour). However it doesn't look good. 1) it's a little burnt 2) it's not tight enough 3) the surface is not smooth.

This recipe owner's bread:

(picture from the owner's blog)

My bread:

which coincides with Not Enough of a Good Thing, Part 1.

This time it was the Hamelman Pain au Levain with WW.  This is the same bread that I made a week ago but then used my own levain and added figs and pecans.  This time I built the dough heeding to the original formula, which carries less whole grain and no additions than what I made last week.

Hello Everybody,

It's nearly 2 years since I last posted; where has the time gone?

The answer is that I have spent most of my time making and selling lots of bread.

I was at Hexham Farmers' Market yesterday in the sunshine.   There are some photos attached taken just before the start of trade.   There are 235 loaves in the photos and by close at 2pm there were just a couple of 100% Rye loaves left.

Hello Freshloafers

<Sorry the orientation of the main picture is a bit off, just tilt your head to the left and it's the right way up again! >

One of the (many) things I enjoy about TFL is you don’t have to look very far to find a recipe to try! This week’s bake was a variation of dabrownman’s jewish deli rye from a couple of weeks back

This loaf is based closely on the recipe from Sam Fromartz's book. It is 70% rye with the balance whole wheat at 80% hydration. I didn't have his mixture of rye flours so substituted high extraction fresh ground rye with the bran resifted and reground twice. The whole wheat is fresh ground Red Fife. I used 120g yeast water replacing some of the water in the final dough. The dough was also retarded after the mix to be formed, warmed and proofed after about ten hours. The dough had swelled a lot during the retard.