A friend was having guests from USA visiting so I baked a large loaf for her that just fitted into my Challenger bread pan.
It's made with Mulino Marino Farro Integrale (organic wholemeal spelt) and smells divine.
Hope her guests like it🤞

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Mulino Marino Organic Farro Integrale (Wholemeal Spelt) Flour

Farro Integrale (Triticum Spelta) is a wholemeal spelt heritage Italian cereal grown in Italy since the Roman Empire. Stoneground by Mulino Marino, specialists in the production of this flour, having worked with it since the grandfather of the current Marinos bought the mill. Farro Integrale (wholemeal) has been milled from a blend of Farro from both northern and southern Italy, it is used for all baking, pizzas and pastry. Ingredients: organic spelt flour   Flour Characteristics Colour Amber with flecks of bran Consistency Typical of the French natural stone-ground flour with live germ Odour Typical of the French natural stone-ground flour with live germ, free from strange smells (mould, fermentation etc.) Flavour Typical, not rancid, healthy, pleasant with live germ   Technical Specification Falling Number 300 sec. Gluten 9 - 13% Protein 16 - 20% Moisture Level 15.50% (max)

This was looking a bit small and lacklustre when it was placed into the Challenger Bread Pan, but after 20mins when the lid was taken off it looked like this🤩
Fantastic oven spring with the slashed top peeling away with the bloom under baking.💪

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The Challenger Bread Pan - for the Crustiest Loaf

If you want that perfect even rise, a fin-like rip where you’ve slashed the top, and a glossy deep bronze crust then the Challenger Bread Pan is the answer. Using your existing oven it encloses your dough in a cast-iron case while it bakes, holding in the steam and ensuring an even heat radiating on the dough from all directions. Finally you can achieve that show-stopping look to your bread right from your home kitchen. Note that this is the revised, refined Challenger model as per the image.   Enclosing your dough while it bakes has many advantages: The Challenger’s cast-iron build holds lots of heat, getting the dough really hot and quickly. The cast-iron construction overcomes any unevenness in the oven (which most have) and gives an even bake. More heat from the bottom crust means more upward lift, especially on high-hydration dough The steam generated by the baking dough is trapped, allowing it to rise to its fullest. Holding the steam encourages the crust to colour, and achieve perfect crispiness.

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Our lovely customer delighted with his lovely Challenger Bread Pan.
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The Challenger Bread Pan - for the Crustiest Loaf

If you want that perfect even rise, a fin-like rip where you’ve slashed the top, and a glossy deep bronze crust then the Challenger Bread Pan is the answer. Using your existing oven it encloses your dough in a cast-iron case while it bakes, holding in the steam and ensuring an even heat radiating on the dough from all directions. Finally you can achieve that show-stopping look to your bread right from your home kitchen. Note that this is the revised, refined Challenger model as per the image.   Enclosing your dough while it bakes has many advantages: The Challenger’s cast-iron build holds lots of heat, getting the dough really hot and quickly. The cast-iron construction overcomes any unevenness in the oven (which most have) and gives an even bake. More heat from the bottom crust means more upward lift, especially on high-hydration dough The steam generated by the baking dough is trapped, allowing it to rise to its fullest. Holding the steam encourages the crust to colour, and achieve perfect crispiness.

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Not the most practical #bread but I was in a playful mood. The dough is an adaptation of #RichardBertinet's olive oil dough but I gave it a slight twist and had fun with the final shaping.

500gr strong bread flour
320gr water
15gr fresh yeast
10gr salt
50gr olive oil
100gr candied fruit peel

Baking: 20 minutes with the lid on (and an ice-cube inside the pan) at 220°C/428°F, and 20 minutes without lid at 210°C/410°F (the last 5 minutes with the oven door slightly ajar.)

#ChallengerBreadPan

I baked 4 loaves of sourdough bread this morning. I was flabbergasted to see that I hadn't baked any sourdough loaves since last November - more than 5 months! I know there was was a focaccia in there somewhere, but still, no actual loaves of bread.

Anyway, I still know how - they appear to have come out well, though none have been sliced yet, so we'll see. But they do look nice 😆

The dough:
flours:
* 70% King Arthur Baking Special Patent Flour
* 25% Breadtopia Organic Wholegrain Rouge de Bordeaux wheat (milled with a Mockmill 100)
* 5% Breadtopia Organic Wholegrain Rye (milled with a Mockmill 100)
74% water
25% liquid levain (100% hydration)
2.1% Kosher salt

Overall hydration ~77%

Process:
Autolyse the flours for 2 hours. Add levain and do Rubaud-method hand mixing for 5 minutes. Rest dough for 30 minutes. Add the salt and do Rubaud-method hand mixing for 5 minutes. Rest dough for 30 minutes. Perform 1 set of strong stretch-and-folds. Rest dough for 30 minutes. Dump dough onto countertop, stretch as large as possible without tearing. "Laminate" the dough by folding it over on itself multiple times. Let rise in container for 45 minutes. Perform 1 set of coil folds. Let rise another 45 minutes. Perform a 2nd set of coil folds. Let rise another 30 minutes. Perform 3rd and final set of coil folds. Let dough continue rising for another 40 minutes. Turn out dough onto countertop, divide and pre-shape. Let rest for 20 minutes. Final shape into batards, placed in 8" / 20 cm bannetons. Final dough temp 77 F / 25 C. Cover with plastic bags and cold-retard in a 36 F / 2 C refrigerator for 18 hours.

Bake:
Preheat oven and Challenger Bread Pans at 550 F / 288 C for an hour. Reduce temp to 475 F / 246 C. Mist loaves with water and cover, baking in enclosed baking pans (with steam) for 20 minutes. Remove the covers, reduce heat to 450 F / 232 C and bake uncovered for 25 minutes

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Another day, another pizza bread.

Dough:
500gr 00 flour
290gr water
30gr honey
1 tin anchovies
12gr fresh yeast
10gr salt

Sauce:
butter
regular flour
milk
coconut cream
Madras curry powder

Topping:
- mushrooms sautéed in a bit of oil & butter, with rosemary, and bits of bacon added at the end + uncooked bits of the white parts of spring onions
- 50gr grated cheese

It's really nice - but then it would be, with these lush ingredients.

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#Bread
#Cheese
#Mushrooms
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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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#HomeBaked
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More bread baking, and this is one of my all-time favourites: Richard Bertinet's lavender & honey wholemeal bread - but this time I baked it in my new oven bread pan, and that made a real difference. This bread has never looked so good.
I baked it 15 minutes with the lid on, and then 20 without.

Ingredients & instructions in the comment section.

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More bread baking and experimenting with the new bread pan. Ingredients:

350gr water
300gr spelt flour
200gr strong bread flour
200gr dried apricot
10gr fresh yeast
10gr salt
Oats

Again I baked it in the closed pan* for 20 minutes and another 20 minutes without the lid; both at 220°C/428°F. I like my crust dark; if you prefer it lighter, bake the 2nd part at 200°C/392°F. (The oven was preheated to 250°C/482°F.)

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#FruitBread
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*with added ice-cube for steaming.

The first breads baked in my new cast-iron bread pan. A simple no-knead baguette dough but I made two regular size breads with it (filled with cheese and cardamom.)
I had to guess at oven times but 15 minutes with lid (with an added ice-cube for steam) and 15 minutes without lid did the trick.

I preheated the oven with the bread pan inside to 250°C/482°F and when the bread went in, I turned it down to 220°C/428°F.

The breads look nice enough.

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#CheesyBread
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