Baked up the bread batch. A big one, about 3.2kg of dough. Excellent oven spring on this batch and that's five loaves cooking now.
Baked up the bread batch. A big one, about 3.2kg of dough. Excellent oven spring on this batch and that's five loaves cooking now.
I experimented with a bread "recycling" batch a cpl of wks back and it was v good.
I'm intrigued by "rescue" ideas for failed/failing bread batches as it's something you often see from early/occasional bread makers.
I have remedies to offer for a batch that hasn't risen properly, but I thought of an approach to use for loaves that are already baked too.
I grind the loaf up and add it to fresh flour. It's a perfectly good ingredient for a fresh batch made with proper leavening.
That batch of bread–just two loaves for this experiment–have just baked up and are cooling.
Will be interesting to sample. Features the addition of other bread ground up and incorporated into the batch.
Hmm, what if part of this batch went into another batch later? A never ending bread cycle.
My current bread batch is an interesting experiment. I had a loaf of somewhat unsuccessful #sourdough – very flavourful, but overly dense.
I was thinking about bread with nuts incorporated, and thought it'd be interesting to try a loaf with bits of old bread in it instead. It's a thing that some traditions do.
So half a loaf of sourdough was cut coarsely and soaked, then whizzed in food processor and added to flour. Will see how it bakes up.
Sourdough Focaccia
Well, sort of. At 80% hydration and after a long autolyse the dough was too slack to keep dimples; poke it and it just flowed back.
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The BEST bread I have ever made! #baking #breadmaking - #fromscratchbaker
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