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…

JANUARY 2024 – WEEK ONE

First dinner of 2024!!! We started the New Year off with an old favourite. Chateaubriand for Two. With Parisienne potatoes, steamed green beans, cauliflower and carrots for Moe, sautéed mushrooms and homemade Bearnaise sauce. January 2nd, 2024 I was intended to make a Raspberry Cobbler with Vanilla Cream sauce, for New Years Day, but didn’t…

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…