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On one of the darkest days in American history; 9/11, Lucy went deep in her bag of tricks to come up with a new very dark bread indeed.  In the past year, her 2 favorite dark breads were the Really Dark Old School Sprouted Pumpernickel – In memory of Barbra, another dark day for Fresh Lofians and Lucy’s Take on Adri’s Westphalian Rye

I went through a spell of baking scones last year, but stopped when everyone in my family seemed to have their fill of them. Lately though, they have been asking for scones. I have been having really good success with my sourdough biscuits, so I decided to try my hand at sourdough scones. I have always used volume measurements for my biscuits and scones, so I'm comfortable using that method for this recipe. The starter is leftover starter straight out of my fridge. The scones turned out fluffy and flaky. Might of been even more fluffy if I had used starter that was more active.

This quick bread was made with ground dried sweetcorn. It is a typical cornbread mix using 1.5 cups corn meal, 1.5 cup AP, milk curdled with lemon juice, melted butter, baking powder, baking soda and salt somehow I forgot  the usual egg. No sweetener was added because the ground sweetcorn was already sweet enough when tasted raw. It was cooked on the grill as we're the brats to go with it. 

I made a ricotta and rosemary bread pudding by using some Tartine country loaves I've just made. What I did not expect was how the humble bread can be transformed into an elegant light meal that I thoroughly enjoyed. The dish was large enough to serve a small crowd. The bread that keeps on giving!

Happy Labor Day!

http://flourishen.blogspot.com/2015/09/ricotta-and-rosemary-bread-pudding.html

So here it is, Sunday's white sourdough bread, with a nice open crumb.

For the leaven

• 1 tbsp mature starter
• 25g type 00 flour
• 25g strong white flour
• 50g water

For the dough

Hello everyone:  I am back in the U.S. after over a month in the UK, where I did quite a bit of baking, but have really spotty internet, so I wasn't able to post very much or keep up on your wonderful bakes.  Lots of catching up to do!

The good news is I think I am getting somewhere with David's Italian baguettes.  The bad news is, I had so many baking mishaps I felt like a hapless beginner again.  You name it, it happened during this trip:

--Overproofing as I wanted the bread to fit my schedule, not the over way around!

Lucy couldn’t remember the last time we made pizza…. especially one made with YW.  We made this one plain as could be with 20% pre-fermented flour and an equal amount of YW in this case 80g each. 320 g of LaFama AP dough flour, 203 g of dough water and 2% salt.

Decided to put a dent , albeit a small one, in the pear harvest. This bread has two pears that were chopped and partially dehydrated to remove part but not all the moisture added to it. The rest of the loaf is freshly ground sprouted wheat, Einkorn, and white wheat all sifted to just get out the biggest bits along with some AP, starter, salt, and water. The dough was not retarded, didn't want a sour element, but between primary fermentation and proofing it took about six hours to be ready to bake this was at 80F.

Father's Day in Australia and my father-in-law loves his basic white bread. my starter is made with wholewheat flour so its not quite 100% white but he doesn't need to know.

80% hydration with 200g of starter. 1kg of white flour. Let it autolyse for 2hrs and stretch and folded for 2 hrs with the bulk lasting 4hrs. Divided and per shaped with a bench rest of 30min. Cold proof in the fridhe for 16hrs. Dough came together quicker then usual. Most times I'm stretching a folding for a little longer than the 2hrs. I just love the blistering on the bread. Cooked in my bread cloche.

Well friends, I enjoyed the berry cream cheese version of Floyd's Blueberry Cream Cheese Braid so much, I tried a new filling version first suggested by scarlett75 in July of '05. This is a really great filling for this bread! 

Again I used pulla dough, brushed with a double egg wash after proofing and sprinkled with sugar/cinnamon, then some more sprinkled sugar.

A really nice filling variation on an excellent recipe!!!