Attemtped some Ciabatta, this time not such a bold bake was requested by the sainted Wife.
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About a month ago I began my quest of making Brötchen (German bread rolls). There was a demand in town for such rolls and I had to fulfill it. I mean, I had to. I'm opening a German-ish bakery albeit in Cambodia. And a German bakery without Brötchen is like a poem without words.
With cracked rye soaker (ground in coffee grinder) instead of cracked wheat. This recipe is very similar to Glezer's, but with addition of some IDY and a shorter fermentation time. I think I prefer her's since the all-levain dough has a deeper flavor, which helps such a subtle loaf. A hint to anyone trying this recipe: do the folds with wet hands rather than dipping in flour. This is sticky dough and you don't want to make it dry.
These buns were a make it up as you go along effort. I was still deciding on the numbers with the mixer running, working the dough I had thus far and I liberally added spices in the style of a well seasoned chef.
This really should have been waited till Easter monday, Since I have been craving for it for soooo long, so who cares.
I have used the formula posted by Rossnroller . The only Changes Ive made to his formula is reduced the sugar to 30g instead of 40g and used a 50% wholewheat starter which push the wholegrain to 22%.
Ive also added a 30min Autolyse and added salt right before the second knead.
Every year before Easter, our church's baking guild will gather a group of volunteers, bake Hot Cross buns, and sell them as a Church fund raiser. This year we baked 60 dozen buns over a 2 day period. We used the recipe from Hammelman's Bread mixing 4 dozen at a time. We nicknamed the volunteers, most who are not bakers, the holy rollers. It is a great way to have some fun together as well as introducing folks to what baking is about.
I love potatoes in my bread and rolls so I figured it was time to try them in pretzel rolls. I had to make this recipe twice as the first time I didn't compensate enough for the moisture in the potatoes and the dough was way too hydrated. The rolls didn't come out the right consistency so I made them again and cut the water back and they came out perfect.
We try to bake some kind of gefilta fish based loosely on Wolfgang Pucks Passover recipe here.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/passover-gefilte-fish-recipe.html
Last year’s was tilapia, with various Mexican green chilies wrapped in collard greens and set into cabbage to look like little cabbages that were covered in fish stock and veggies. We made 6 large ones and they were terrific here
Now that my baby starter is quite active and I've had a few successful naturally leavened loaves, I wanted to try making some Tartine bread. I dined at Bar Tartine recently and the idea of baking my own oat porridge bread was stuck in my head. I used breaducation's formula for the Tartine oat porridge bread.
Let's just say mine turned out nothing like breaducation's beautiful bread. My dough was very wet and sticky and I had trouble handling it. You can see that my loaf hardly rose at all.
So, one of the nice things about Tartine Bread is Chad Robertson's recipes for use of the day old bread. Sometimes one has a half loaf in the bread box and a fresh loaf just out of the oven. It is difficult to eat that "day old bread" when there is a fresh loaf sitting out calling my name.
His french toast recipe calls for a 1.5 inch thick slice of bread. That is a lot of bread. But, fortunately, I had enough old bread to make two slices.
