This loaf and the next one are replacements for family gifts that we didn’t get to exchange earlier due to weather problems (See Loaves 91 and 92). I corrected my ciabatta mistake from Loaf 90, and proofed these loaves for an hour on a well floured breadboard before flipping them over...

At the end of this adventure I will figure out how much bread I gave away – it’s been quite a lot. Here are three more loaves made as a year end gift for Sarah’s co-workers. Of course the fourth loaf stayed home with us. There was one mistake making these loaves that...

It’s been about two weeks since my baking binge in Boulder. My two-pass tri-fold approach on the ciabatta bread gave me an idea for a breakfast bread. I decided to try folding cinnamon, brown sugar and raisins into the bread for sweet bread. Sarah isn’t a big fan of raisins, so I...

Like my lean loaves (Loaf 68), the ciabatta worked beautifully. Big, puffy and light. I did one step differently than usual. Typically I shape the loaves by stretching the dough out into a rectangle, then doing a tri-letter fold. After half the proofing time I flip the loaves over. This flip...

Part of my collection of accidentally deleted pictures. Since Eric was going to be home for a few days I made a bunch of ciabatta sandwich rolls. I followed the same Reinhart ciabatta recipe as before with modifications in the shaping phase. The dough was mixed the evening before and spent...

The Reinhart ciabatta recipe has become one of my “go to” bread recipes, especially for sandwiches. We had a friend’s son stay with us for a couple days, BBQ and sandwiches were on the menu. I shaped the dough into one large loaf and three smaller sandwich loaves. Nothing...

Not every loaf of bread I bake now has a specific learning purpose, and that’s great. I feel like I’ve already accomplished what I wanted to learn with this project, which is to understand bread well enough that I can “whip up a batch” whenever we want it. That was the...

It’s nice to be to the point where I can confidently make delicious bread for purely utilitarian reasons. We were planning our dinner menu for the week and thought that BBQ beef sandwiches would be good one night. And, they’d be extra good on ciabatta rolls. I mixed up the dough...