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My Bread, January 2022
As the year of the Ox transitions into the year of the Tiger, my bread has settled into another steady state. So here’s worth another update. As for the past couple of years, I’m happily using the cast iron loaf pan, which gives a nice crust all around. Towards the end of 2021, I tried…
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My Bread (and Pizza), December 2021
I spent November on a bad run. It was completely self-inflicted. I’ve always wanted to develop the laziest possible process for making sourdough so I kept trying to use old dough to start the next loaf several times. (I also tried this last year with the same dismal results). After a month of gummy loaves,…
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My Bread, July 2021
I’ve gotten into a good rhythm baking loaves with our Lodge Cast Iron loaf pan. The recipe is quite simple. 50g starter150g to 200g water250g bread flour5g salt You might notice the wide range of water in this recipe, anywhere from 60% to 80% hydration. It doesn’t seem to matter. The key is to knead…
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“Crepes” and Summer Bread
Over summer I developed a crepe recipe. We eat it savory because the batter is often the product of failed bread. 300g starter (150 flour + 150g water)3 eggs150g water2g pepper2g garlic powder2g salt (when its not failed bread dough) 90g cheese (optional) My wife likes them crispy (hence the scare quotes in the title).…
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She offered three meager slices of homemade organic sourdough bread.
A ravenous flock pursued us on the lawn.We fled. She was his age, last time we fed the ducks. Today, the waterfowl waited patiently in the pond. They’ve learned manners over the pandemic. .. .. The bottom of the quail’s foot is always itching for the ground ; and he seems never so happy as…
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Bread, 09 March 2021
I’m still using the toaster oven with a cast iron Lodge pan, but I’ve made a couple tweaks from my previous bread post that has made the process even easier and provided more consistent results. Poolish40g starter from the previous dough60g water 60g flourDough200g water120g bread flour120g whole wheat flour4g salt As you can see,…
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Bread, 27 Jan 2021
Today’s loaf was a case of failing upwards. I overproofed my dough in the toaster oven. Maybe because I set the warming function too high and prematurely killed my leaven. The loaf collapsed in the bake. No matter, I was still hungry for a midnight snack. Which is when I found out that I forgot…
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Bread, 20 Jan 2021
Our range oven died after Thanksgiving and we’re waiting for the pandemic to settle down before fixing it. So I’ve been using a toaster oven for baking bread. Fortunately we have a cast iron Lodge Loaf Pan which makes a lovely toasted crust, (though the top sometimes gets a little burnt given how much it…
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Bread, 28 July 2020
After trying a really high hydration bread that went well enough but not spectacularly, I came back to my standard 75 hydration. I wanted to use up some oil/water from a jar of marinated artichokes and some cheap flour that my father-in-law bought. 350g all purpose flour (Gold Medal)50g buckwheat flour100g starter225g water75g marinated artichoke…
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Sourdough Bread Video
I spent all day Sunday editing a video on making sourdough bread. It would be a little faster to read my blog posts on sourdough bread, but hopefully this is a good “snapshot” of how I currently make my bread and there are things that video conveys that cannot be described adequately with the 26…