The Bread I Make
February 28, 2020 § 4 Comments
Republishing this with some updates. And again.
Let’s start this off by saying there are a lot of ways to make bread, and I suppose by “ways to”, I really mean “recipes for” making bread, because really there are a limited number of ways to actually make it.
It all starts with a recipe, and then you can experiment and add your own variance. The recipe I have been following lately starts with:
- 700g Hard White Wheat Flour (King Arthur’s Orange Bag)
- 300g Hard Red Wheat Flour (King Arthur’s Red Bag)
- 850g H2O @80-90F
- 200g Starter
- 20g Kosher Salt
- 1C Seed Mixture (Optional)
- 4 TBS Gluten Flour*
* Whether to add this really depends on the type of wheat being used. Soft wheat, like cake flour will definitely need gluten added, where as hard wheat, should really need it, but it doesn’t hurt to add in as it takes good gluten sheets to make that lovely crumb that we so love in these kinds of breads.
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February 10, 2020 § Leave a comment
As I write this, I am well into my 60th year, and here in America I will have completed my 60th in another month. In some cultures you are the age of the year you are living so currently I am 61, as in my 61st year. It doesn’t sound so smart at 61, but if you were just born, you wouldn’t say your baby is in its zeroth year. It is in its first year of life, so one. Seems simple enough.
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