bread

SOURDOUGH BATARDS

I have been using the “scrapings” left in the jar method since February, so I have been neglecting my “Mother” and “Daughter” starters. In fact the last time I fed them was September 7th. Needless to say there was a lot of hooch floating on top. So yesterday, I poured off the liquid, gave them…

Baking with a Preferment

The first time I ever used a “Biga” in a recipe was probably close to 30 years ago. It was a recipe for an Italian bread, and the recipe was out of one of the food magazines, can’t remember which one. Since then I have tried some of the other preferments, including the Levain, Poolish…

CRUSTY ENGLISH BLOOMER BREAD

Crusty English Bloomer Bread. This is new to me. I went searching for a recipe for this bread and found a couple. I went with two different recipes. One using a pate fermentee and my regular bread flour and one that was a Whole Wheat version. The first batch was a 1000g of flour, and…

HOMESTYLE WHITE BREAD

This style of bread reminds me of the loaves of bread my grandmother always made. Makes wonderful dinner rolls too. Normally I make this by hand using the Autolyze Stretch and Fold Method. But decided since I was going to be making two – 1000g flour batches I decided to do in the Electrolux Magic…