Another day, another couple of breads (one to give away.)

Ingredients:
500gr strong white bread flour
225gr water
12gr fresh yeast
10gr salt
200gr boiled & cubed sweet potato
55gr rehydrated & cut up dried mushrooms

Pics:
1) After kneading
2) After the first hour of rest
3) After the shaping, scoring and proofing
5) After 35 minutes of baking at 200°C/392°F.

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Today, I decided to bake more #baguettes, but this time filled with #rum-soaked fruit*.

Ingredients
500gr 00 flour
320gr water
15gr fresh yeast
10gr salt
100gr rum-soaked fruit

As with the sautéd onion filling, I added the fruit at the very start of the process, right after adding the flour & salt to the bowl with the water & yeast solution.

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*I always have a big jar with rum & fruit on one of my dried herbs & spices shelves.

After a few rounds of less-than-great sourdough bread baking, I retreated to my comfort zone: #Baguettes.

(The cheese is a Dutch Very Old Cheese my sister sends me from Holland, once or twice a year, sealed and in 5-kilo packages. I'm nearing the end of this batch.)

Ingredients:
350gr water
500gr strong bread flour
12gr fresh yeast
10gr salt
(Some dried flower leaves)

Full recipe + video:
https://www.bakewithjack.co.uk/blog-1/2021/2/01/easy-baguettes

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Probably the prettiest sourdough bread I ever baked. It's for giving away, so I won't be able to check the crumb but it looks all right, and it had a proper oven rise, which is a sign of a happy dough.

I baked it, as usual, in my oven bread pan; 20 minutes with the lid on (and an ice-cube thrown in for steaming purposes) and 25 minutes without the lid.

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Today I baked a 'pain de campagne' and I decided to make a soup to go with that; a riff on the traditional French onion soup.

Bread ingredients:
400gr strong bread flour
100gr rye flour
10gr salt
20gr fresh yeast
50gr butter*
Chopped leaves of a large bunch of fresh oregano (though I used sage, from the freezer)

*A #PaulHollywood recipe; he uses a lot of butter in his breads. This is a nice bread but I prefer the #RichardBertinet version.

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A fairly busy day in the kitchen:

- The second day of sourdough bread baking, so a lot of waiting and a little bit of work
- I soaked and then wrung out dried chillies, that will become a fermented hot sauce
- I made salted caramel; a present for friends here.

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A loooong day - but it's done now, and I'm in bed, reading, while the cat is hammocking.

Much, much earlier in the day, I baked another sourdough bread; a bit of an experiment, since I'd added all kinds of spices to the dough.

The oven rise was near perfect, and the crumb was very nice too, though more compact than usual, thanks to those spices, I'm sure.

It tasted really well - especially with the basil pesto I had made last week.

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