February 20, 2011 - 8:27am
Eric Kayser's Buckwheat Batard, as published by Daniel Leader, and as annotated by Occidental
I haven't been able to find much in the way of suggestions for baking bread with buckwheat, which is a shame because it is so delicious. I can't say much about Kayser or Leader, but I am grateful to Occidental for his post on this bread. It was delicious.
The large holes are the result of incomplete degassing before shaping, a defect, as Hamelman would say. Otherwise, the crumb was very nice:
Hiding under the batard is my first attempt at the tordu shape. Not bad, but not ready for prime time:
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Looks good, Louie.
What percentage of buckwheat is in this bread?
Can't help saying, "Buckwheat Batard" sounds like the name of a cartoon character.
Glenn
Or maybe he was Yosemite Sam's friend.
Here's the thread on Occidental's work, Glenn:
http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/14950/buckwheat-batard
Eigth post down, I think. If I recall correctly, it's a total of about 15% of the all the flour, roughly half in the preferment and half in the final dough, but I'm quite unreliable about such things.
It's a good bread, with plenty of potential for variation.