My summer foray to Switzerland for a visit with my sister obviously included experiments with bread. She had prepared some sourdough for us to use together. It was different than the sourdough to which I'm accustomed. Initially, I thought the differences were due...
Pavé describes a stone road, those famous ones ridden during the classic bicycle race Paris Roubaix (The hell of the north). It's also a term for a simply shaped brick loaf of bread. While this dough rose, I took a nap. What I got was a light and crusty loaf with...
Below is a shot of my results at Soul Crumbs' Pane Nostrum (our daily bread). Keeping in mind the mantra, "baking differently." While off on timing, I seemed to get a light, airy, holey loaf and crusty crumb.
Six-plaited challah isn't an easy achievement. Not at all! But here's a tip, one strand to the left, another to the middle. And so on. Using heritage-grain flour, I tinkered recently with various formulas, all the while juggling the numbers until hitting the...
Below is an Austrian "roggenmischbrot," a rye sourdough bread that has defied perfection in previous baking attempts. Tweaking my approach, I used a dry sourdough (aka "gerstel"), and this time the Gods were with me. It's a long wait for...
Gerstel is an Austrian drying method to better keep your rye sourdough when not in use. It calls for mixing your sourdough with three times the amount of rye flour, then storing it in a mason jar. It will keep a week or two. To reactivate, try what's known...
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