Bread

Socca. So Good.
Might make some for dinner....

Great tip! Thanks

Cheers! Will try that tomorrow.

Springy!

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Looks lovely.

Smells good too, unfortunately I've had my dinner 😢

Know the feeling. Wanted to crack into this badlad but had the end of another loaf to finish.

Worth the wait tho.

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Ashevak print peeking out there?

Lol, well spotted! It's on a tile, random gift from someone. Like it though.

Yeah, Dorset prints are lovely.

At the beginning of the week made a malted loaf

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Nice!

Obligitary crumb shot:

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Tasted lovely but the starter was clearly not active enough

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So tried again. Crumb shot to follow once it has cooled.

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Oh no! Rep+ for posting your unsuccessful loaves tho.

Cheers, for me it’s important to learn and improve.

My sister keeps making sourdough cowpats and I couldn’t understand why. So when one of mine turned out heavy and poorly risen I looked into the underlying cause. And then had to try again to see if a change made a difference.

In other news I got some silicone muffin moulds yesterday and hope to start producing stale bread muffins - a sort of breadandbutterpuddingXmuffin collab. Throw together stale bread, milk, cream, butter, eggs and sugar with some other adulterant (vanilla, chocolate, fruit, dried fruit etc)

Youtube suggested I watch this video the other day, and I picked up a few tricks from it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJEHsvW2J6M

Best so far is frying up the starter I'd normally discard. Just did it in butter today, but I think it'd work really well with some egg and leek

Thanks, gonna try this real soon

Crumb shot

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Looks bang on!

Great structure!

What did you do differently?

I have a couple of different starters and one isn’t as active as the other.

First loaf I took 100g of the less active starter (it still bubbles away) and added 50g each of water and flour. Gave it about four hours and then I used that 200g in the loaf.

2nd loaf I took 50g from each of my starters and added 50g each of flour and water. It had about 7 or 8 hours getting much more excited and bubbly.

Everything else was identical

640g mix of white and wholemeal
6g diastatic malt
495g of water
11g salt

Mixed flour, malt, 350g water and starter and left for approx 40 mins

Dimpled surface and Sprinkled salt and water and folded it in, did this gradually to get salt and water incorporated. Then kneaded for approx ten minutes on a moistened counter and kept dipping fingers in water.

Once it was starting to look less shaggy rolled into a ball and put back in the bowl and left a film of water over the surface of the dough.

Stretch and folds every hour or so for 4 or 5 hours. Each time done with wet hands and a little more water left on the surface.

By the end all the water had been incorporated and then did a pre shape, left for 30 mins. Final shape, rolled in malt flakes and bulk proved in fridge overnight.

diastolic

I think you mean diastatic ;-)

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