Bread ****

[chrisb8]

Baked this today with spent grains and yeast cultured up from the bottom of homebrew bottles...

 

[Clint]

I'm sure you won't waste it Foxy.
Cut the top off...fill it with chips. Time to get fat!

 

[foxy]

I'm sure you won't waste it Foxy.
Cut the top off...fill it with chips. Time to get fat!

No not wasted, scraped the charcoal of it turned out alright, my Guinness and Walnut bread is another story. The birds enjoyed it but. A bad baking day all round.

 

[Session]

Does anyone have the book Dough by Richard Bertinet? Is it any good?

I don’t own his book, but borrowed it from the library once and have watched a lot of his videos online. He uses a different kneading technique to most I have done before. It’s predictably French, and allows a much higher hydration to be used in the dough itself whilst still allowing you to manipulate it. It’s very clever, but a lot of hard work!

From memory there is however an excellent section on shaping dough and comes with a handy DVD that shows you the techniques.

If youre not sure whether you want to buy it and fancy getting more of an idea of whether his style is for you first, the video content from the DVD is here:



He does classes in Bath which are excellent - I got one for my sister for her birthday and she loved it.

 

[foxy]

Got another load of mushrooms, been a good productive mushroom season, dried them in the oven ended up with two good hand fulls went into two loaves, turned the loaves a darker brown but enough mushrooms in the loaves for the aroma & flavour.

 

[Gerryjo]

Just found a kilo of this in the back of the cupboard ...

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254917990
I bought it when I was grinding my own malted grain to a flour about a year ago, but never got round to using it.

It's only marginally out of date and no weevils so I'm thinking of using it to make a small malt loaf with some sultanas and demerara sugar; unless anyone has some other ideas!

Bought Wright's oat and linseed bread mix a while ago and noticed it on top of the freezer today and was open and had wondered why as I have not baked bread in over 30 years since I was at school.
Anyway I said to the missus and she said it was out of date which was 23/04/20 only three days and she wouldn't use it so I said sod that as she was giving off about yeast and beasties in the flower.
Balls I said so into a bowl with tepid water, mixed, neaded, proved, baked and nearly all gone as everyone loved it.
Going to start baking my own be it with ale and Lager yeast as I can't get bread yeast though I do have a 100g tub of youngs general yeast which is only a year out of date...

 

[Alastair70]

Sourdough skills improving, but still by no means there yet. Here's last nights attempt, which mostly went well. I had underfloured my banneton and it put up a bit of a fight coming out. Hence, the volcanic wasteland appearance on top. Tasted good however, had the leftovers as toast this morning.

 

[Richie_asg1]

After a failed attempt yesterday to buy flour at my local CoOp I resorted to looking online for it.
My theory was that there is no shortage of flour, it's just the small bags being bought up quickly. So I went looking for the suppliers of the bulk bags to small independent Pizza shops and bakeries that are no longer getting their regular orders.
I found a guy on Ebay just selling bread flour and after talking to him found he has plain and self raising in 16kg bags. So bought one bread flour and one self raising for now, but was actually cheaper than buying the same quantity in small bags from the local shop!

So if you are struggling with supply - go looking for it in larger bags/ sacks.

 

[Brewnaldo]

Homemade garlic bread. Part baked, stuffed with garlic butter, awaiting a last bake to get nice and crispy

 

[Alastair70]

Last one (I promise), mainly so I can plug Flour Water Yeast Salt by Ken Forkish, £3 for the Kindle edition.
New recipe, new method, no kneeding, just occasional folding and lots of time for fermentation to take place.
Tonights bread is his Overnight Country Blonde sourdough. I've also done one of his yeasted pizza doughs which was great and now I'm doing a leavened pizza dough with the leftover levain from this bake. The smaller loaf was baked free form and the larger one in a tin.
It's a great book for baking idiots like me, clear instructions on methods and a good selection of bread/pizza/focaccia recipes to get you started.

 

[darkbright]

All this bread looks so good, but it doesn't agree with me so I don't eat it. I am living vicariously through this thread!

 

[Clint]

Are you wearing a cassock?

 

[darkbright]

Are you wearing a cassock?

No. Only on Cassock Thursdays.

 

[Richie_asg1]

Muffin **** -

Banana and chocolate with cinnamon, crisp top with cinnamon sugar.

 

[Mr_S_Jerusalem]

So myself and the lad have to stay at home a while these days cos I’m working from home and he’s off school right.

So we made a couple of foccacias that turned out well, and some yoghurt flatbread things. Basically I’m pretty new to the baking thing generally, I like bread I think because I can see how it works, it’s yeast innit. And it’s good for the boy to learn this kind of magic.

Anyone got any good basic starting recipes for bread that taste great, don’t have crazy ingredients and are piss easy to make? I don’t have a bread maker.

Or good websites?

Cheers

 

[Richie_asg1]

You could try making wraps / tortillas. I'm going to have a go later today as it gives variety to the bread situation, and seem easy enough.

 

[Richie_asg1]

Honey oat bread with a half cup of milled spent grain for the nutty flavour....and because I have a lot to use up.

Used with my own pickles too to make a subway style sub. "Cheese toasted"

 

[PhilBrew]

Home baked bagels for brunch this morning ...

Cheers, PhilB

 

[Alastair70]

So myself and the lad have to stay at home a while these days cos I’m working from home and he’s off school right.

So we made a couple of foccacias that turned out well, and some yoghurt flatbread things. Basically I’m pretty new to the baking thing generally, I like bread I think because I can see how it works, it’s yeast innit. And it’s good for the boy to learn this kind of magic.

Anyone got any good basic starting recipes for bread that taste great, don’t have crazy ingredients and are piss easy to make? I don’t have a bread maker.

Or good websites?

Cheers

Have a look on YouTube, there’s loads of good instructional videos. I learned to kneed high hydration doughs by watching Bake with Jake.

 

[Cwrw666]

Last weeks efforts.