Over the years, I have bought many pieces of equipment for bread baking. This post is about my latest acquisition, the Lodge 3.2 Quart Cast Iron Combo Cooker. I learned about it when I was looking at a recipe on the Anson Mills site and saw that their recipe for a whole wheat bread using Read More …
This is my first time making a bread using only my sourdough starter. It worked well and tasted great, although it does take a total of around 3 days from start to finish. This recipe is adapted from Ken Forish’s book Evolutions in Bread: Artisan Pan Breads and Dutch-Oven Loaves at Home. It combines the Read More …
This is the first bread I have made from spelt, a primitive form of wheat. It is adapted from Ken Forkish’s book Evolutions in Bread: Artisan Pan Breads and Dutch-Oven Loaves at Home, and follows a similar technique as the50 Percent Einkorn Pan Bread, the main difference being an overnight rise. It makes a very Read More …
I received for Christmas Ken Forkish’s book Evolutions in Bread: Artisan Pan Breads and Dutch-Oven Loaves at Home, which includes many recipes using flour from older forms of wheat. I baked my first loaf yesterday using Einkorn, which is a primitive wheat. It has lower yields than modern wheat and is more difficult to process Read More …
Pide is the Turkish version of pizza. They have a distinctive shape, which is long and narrow with twisted ends, and look vaguely like a boat. They can have fillings similar to pizza as well as very different fillings. The recipe below is the quantity of dough to make 4 individual pides, each of which Read More …
Cheesy Damper is an Australian quick bread which was demonstrated on the Rachel Ray show. It can be ready in about 30 minutes. I have 2 versions below, a larger one suitable for a 12-inch cast iron skillet, and a smaller one suitable for a 9-inch cake pan. Since I had some mini-pepperoni on hand Read More …
I made these flatbreads to go with pork souvlaki. They are based on a recipe in Milk Street TV and are soft and flexible. This recipe will make 8 flatbreads in about an hour to an hour and a half. 1 cup lukewarm water ¼ cup Greek whole-milk plain yogurt, at room temperature ½ cup Read More …
This is a variation of No-knead bread with Flourish and whole-wheat flour made with some of my 50/50 sourdough starter. 50 g. sourdough starter 75 g. whole wheat flour 300 g. warm water, divided 2 g. yeast 150 g. Flourish flour 150 g. KAF high gluten flour 8 g. salt Early on the day before Read More …
Usually when I make pitas, I am making a very lean bread. This is the opposite style of flatbread since it is enriched with milk, yogurt and olive oil. This version is adapted from a recipe in a UK YouTube channel “Meliz Cooks”. It makes 6 flatbreads and takes about 2.5 hours. The flatbreads are Read More …
I have made several experiments making No-Knead bread with the high-fiber Flourish AP flour. When successful, the resulting bread will have higher fiber and a lower glycemic index than typical breads. The two problems are: First, the manufacturer warns that high-fiber flour needs some additional water, but does not specify how much water. Second, it Read More …