On to something new! Now that I’m getting confident with my sourdough, I decided to try the Tartine approach to sourdough. I followed the directions from Chad Robertson’s Tartine Bread for the basic country bread as close as possible. I started by feeding my starter the night...
Loaf 62 – Lean...
posted by carl
This is the last of the deleted picture loaves. We had a friend over for BBQ dinner so I made my reliable Reinhart Lean Bread. Round boules shaped in bannetons is the simple approach I took with these two loaves, and they looked and tasted great. I was a little concerned when they...
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 57 – Lean...
posted by carl
This is my first loaf in about three weeks, so I just make a simple lean bread using the Reinhart recipe. No big news here – it was easy to get back in the saddle again and make a nice loaf. The texture seemed a bit lighter than I remember it, and it didn’t have quite as much...
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...
Loaves 43, 44 –...
posted by carl
You would think that 28 loaves of bread would get me pretty far along on my mission of baking 100 loaves of bread, but these 28 loaves only count as TWO – one white and one nine grain. They are all made from two huge 4kg batches of dough. Every semester we have all the ETC-SV students...
Loaf 42 – Less...
posted by carl
We had a dinner party for my students last Friday night, and I thought it would be nice to give them all a loaf of bread to take home afterwards. More details about that in the next post (Loaves 43, 44), because this post is about the batch that failed. I made two 4 kilogram batches of bread,...
Loaf 40 – Orig...
posted by carl
My Seeded Whole Wheat Original bread (loaf 38) was almost excellent. The plan for this loaf was to make it again, but sweetened with honey (per my lesson from loaf 38) to tweak the flavor. When I was buying seeds at Whole Foods I decided to try this with their bulk 9 Grain mixture instead of...