Hello and thanks from North of China
Hello The Fresh Loafer(#^.^#)
I have a small oven and I baking local loaf about 10 years. I start to like the "world" bread from last year my trip. It's difficult to get really good bread in my stay place. So I start to try baking bread from 1 month ago. My oven small and not enough hot and I have no stone board. It's difficult to a new baker to making big hole and good looking bread.
I find no kneed bread with pot receipe. So I try to making Tartine bow bread. It's better than before. But still not very good. I search "bow bread" in internet and find this blog 2 weeks ago. Here many bakers make same bread with me. So I get many information about this. I got a big hole and half brown colour bread in last weekend. It's not good bread for TFL. But It's already good for a new baker. I hope I can making very nice bread like TFL friends. oF couse in someday.
Thanks TFL friends
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy bread
Best Regards
Happylina in Beijing
Hi Happylina!
I'm also from Beijing, although I have lived in the U.S. for 21 years. It's good to see that you're having fun baking western style breads. I love everything I see here on the fresh loaf, but sometimes I wish there were more people doing Chinese breads: man tou, you tiao, bao zi, xianr bing, ... that sort of thing. There's so much good food in Beijing, and you can get it for so cheap that most people have no reason to make it at home. However, here in the U.S. it's not as easy to get such delicious, authentic products. Best of luck on your baking adventures.
Hi yy
Glad to know you stay the same city with me. yes, local bread like mantou, baozi, you tiao are delicious. And have good price. When you stay in Beijing take local food is better choice than buy expensive and not really good western bread. Some time I also making baozi, mantou, jiaozi,xianbing at home. My homeland is Shandong. There mantou and baozi more delicious than BJ. I take youtiao in restautrant.
Thank you for your kindly welcome.
A big welcome from Australia
to our chinese bakers Happylina & yy the breads that were named sound interesting , i do hope we get to hear more about them, as i have not heard very much at all about chinese breads.
Regards Yozza
Hi yozzause
Thanks for you kindly welcome from Australia.
I'm glad to know you interesting with China bread. China bread and western bread all good bread for me. I will make 1 big western baking homemade ferment bread and some Chinese dumpling in this weekend. Maybe I can try to paste photo in TFL blog.
have a good weekend
best regards
Happylina
Welcome to TFL!
I got started with small ovens when I was in China 5 years ago.
- Mini Oven
Hi Mini oven
Thank you for your kindly welcome.
You been stay in China and baking? It's not easy to get baking flour in 5 years ago in China. That's many baking shop in big city now.
Thanks for your encourage. By the way, I like mini oven big bread(^.^)
Have a nice weekend
Happylina
how nice that the baking community extends over all continents!
I'm looking forward to hear about your Chinese breads.
Happy baking,
Karin (from Germany, now Maine/USA)
Hi Karin
Thank you for your kindly welcome.
You are right . Here is a nice place for baker all over the world.
We can share same bread and happy for same baking.
I just post my Chashao dumpling on blog. And I would like making some Chinese breads and pot bread.
Happy baking happy bread!
Happylina