Bread - What are you baking today…..
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Made my two standards yesterday evening and this morning…. white bread with 20% spelt on a poolish levain and the Forkish Country Blonde. I’m getting consistent results from an establishwd schedule with the latter, so I’m thinking I should try the Pain Au Bacon with it, next week.
Poolish:
Country Blonde:
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Had a weekend/bread/alcohol related FUBAR myself today…
Mixed a poolish last night 50/50 flour and water, 500g each. This morning as I was mixing the final dough my ever so slightly thick head decided to put in 500g of water and not 250g making the dough 100% hydration. I tried not to panic and started doing math (badly) to work out what I needed to do to preserve the flour/water/salt/yeast ratios. The flour was easy, the salt a little harder and the yeast nigh on impossible as the poolish is supposed to make up 50% of the final dough and not 33% as this will be. Sunday morning head, emergency mathematics and baker’s percentages don’t mix.
The bulk ferment and proofing seem to have gone well. Best case I get three white poolish loaves, but the taste will probably be a little bland because of the reduced poolish per loaf.
Updates to come...
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That'll do
Indeed it will. And I now know that the equipment I have will allow me to make bigger batches without it taking meaningfully longer time. Three loaf doughs are no problem, and there is probably room for a four loaf dough too.
EDIT: in other news, I’ve been smoking trout today. Coming to a thread near you soon.
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Cold… used one of these:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Abu-Garcia-Fish-Smoker-Black/dp/B004O6LQ8Q
Full account later this evening.
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50% Poolish with 50% white and 50% spelt flours…
I would pay good money for that bread if I saw it in a bakery
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I would pay good money for that bread if I saw it in a bakery
Indeed. All the above look delicious. I really like the look of the batons.
I’m considering going back to baking seam side down and scoring. I’ve embraced the Forkish look and going seam side up to get the random rustic explosions. And while it looks great I fancy a change.
After the week I’ve had I was sceptical about doing any weekend baking but routine came to the rescue and last night dough mixing and this mornings bake were quite theraputic. A double batch of country blonde was the result:
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Demo-ing all week and still finding the time for baking bread ?
Much Respect @neph93
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Demo-ing all week and still finding the time for baking bread ?
Much Respect @neph93Thank you sir! Although I have just woken up from a two hour nap in the middle if the day [emoji1]
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Demo-ing all week and still finding the time for baking bread ?
Much Respect @neph93Thank you sir! Although I have just woken up from a two hour nap in the middle if the day [emoji1]
lol – can happen
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Not bread, but classic cinnamon rolls. I’ve never had such luck with my rising today. I must have actually kneaded enough this time. A good 8 minutes with the kitchen aid.
Anyway here are some pics of the rising and the crumb at the end.
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Me too, but seeing all of the bread here makes me want to bust out the dutch oven and make a couple of boules!
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Sort of same, same…. 50% Poolish, 50% white/50% spelt
But I screwed up either the amount of water (too much) or amount of flour (too little) that I added to the final mix. The hydration was far too high, so I bunged in fistfuls of dark rye until I got the hydration to sort of where it should have been.....
