Some time ago, I bought a bag of First Clear Flour from King Arthur Flour, which then sat in my pantry since I was not sure what to do with it. Since it was described by KAF as a high protein flour, I first used some as a substitute for bread flour when I had Read More …
This chewy and flavorful loaf is what all those mediocre supermarket and restaurant focaccias are aspiring to be. It takes about 24 hours of elapsed time, but little work time. This recipe is adapted from SeriousEats.com. Because I have some 1:1 sourdough starter in the refrigerator, I used 6 oz. of it in the recipe Read More …
Carol and I learned how to make bagels at King Arthur Flour’s baking school in Norwich, VT about 5 years ago, and this post is adapted from their recipe. Authentic bagels are not hard to make, but they do use some specialized techniques and specialized ingredients. The dough is very stiff, and if I had Read More …
The Irish Brown Bread reminded me of a very lightly sweetened and low fat bran muffin, so I have thought for some time that I should make it as individual muffins rather than as a loaf. This was a success and had the key advantage of cooking faster (18 minutes vs. 50 minutes for the Read More …
This bread is like a larger pocket-less pita bread. It is traditionally made by the Druze on a hemispherical pan placed upside down over a propane burner. A wok turned upside down over a gas burner would be similar. Since I have an electric stove, I set a baking steel over two of the burners Read More …
I have had a sourdough starter for many years, but it had been neglected lately, so I bought a new one from breadtopia.com. It took about a week to rehydrate and build the starter to a useable quantity. So far I have used it as a poolish replacement. I have built it up to be Read More …
This is the version of baguettes that I have been making the most often lately. The starter was from breadtopia.com and I followed their Almost No Knead Baguette recipe except that I substituted 250 g.of the sourdough starter for the poolish in the original recipe. (The sourdough starter has 100% hydration, i.e. equal weights of Read More …
This is a stub. I was making a batch of my standard pizza dough, when I decided to turn it into a baguette to go with shrimp with garlic sauce. My standard pizza dough has 77% hydration, which is too high to form a baguette. After quick internet research I decided to try 65% hydration, Read More …
A focaccia is a flatbread which is like a pizza but thicker and with less of a topping. In a focaccia the emphasis is on the bread, with the topping just an accent to flavor the bread, vs. the focal point of the dish. This version was made with a half recipe from Pizza for Many Read More …
For last night’s birthday feast for Amanda we made these flour tortillas to go with the carne asada. All flour tortillas are made with some solid fat, either the traditional lard or the more modern vegetable shortening. I have a small container of rendered pork fat which I had saved for making ramen broth, Read More …