These loaves and Loaves 91 were supposed to be holiday gifts for family members, but our trip got postponed due to weather. The upside of that is that we got to keep the bread. I wasn’t happy with the way Loaves 91 came out, which were made at the same time as these, but these loaves...
Loaf 88 – 9 Gr...
posted by carl
This was an experiment with using a loaf pan to shape my 9 grain bread to get a form hospitable to sandwiches. The dough was mixed with the same recipe and process I’ve developed before (see Loaf 80) up to the shaping step. I divided the 1200g of dough into a 700g loaf for a large loaf...
Loaf 80 – 9 Gr...
posted by carl
My 9 grain bread is delicious and has become a staple in our house. I tried a simpler approach to mixing the ingredients this time, and it seems to be a step for the better. My typical process, which I lifted from another recipe, is to mix the dough, let it rest for a few minutes, and then...
Loaf 75 – 9 Gr...
posted by carl
Three of these four loaves were made for friends. To paraphrase a line about boat owners, “The only thing better than baking bread is having a friend who bakes bread.” It isn’t any more work to make four loaves of bread than it is to make one or two. When I decided to make a...
Loaf 72 – 9 Gr...
posted by carl
Last April we had all the ETC-SV students from that semester over for dinner, something we’ve done each semester for four years now (see Loaves 43, 44). I baked individual loaves for each person to take home afterwards – something I swore I wouldn’t do again… And I...
Loaf 67 – 9 Gr...
posted by carl
One pair of four different loaves made for a dinner party. I followed my usual 9 Grain recipe. I certainly didn’t want to experiment with anything new right before feeding twenty people, and I was baking at altitude in a different oven than I’m used to. Everything worked as usual,...
Loaf 58 – 9 Gr...
posted by carl
Loaf 58 is an experiment in shaping. We wanted good sandwich bread and love the 9 Grain loaf I make, so I wanted to shape it in a loaf pan rather than a banneton or on a couche. The dough is mixed the night before and left to autolyze in the fridge overnight. I used flour from a 10 pound bag...
Loaf 53 – 9 Gr...
posted by carl
These loaves began as a routine batch of my 9 Grain wheat bread as gifts for friends… except for a few brain freezes along the way. I was making five loaves, so needed to make about 2.5kg of dough (500g being my regular size). Somehow I typed in 1,500g in my bread calculator and blindly...