a bread post - a post about dough. Have been experimenting and learning to make bread on and off over the years. Here are some pictures of the latest results. Had a lot of help from Dan Leppard's book the handmade loaf. So far only success has been with leaven from strong white flour. The spelt experiment coincided with the wood-fired beastie having a rest (had to rod out the chimney). Long suffering family have put up with my experiments but still prefer shop-bought bread - don't blame them. Most rock hard loaves have ended up as chook breakfast - they'll eat pretty much anything (though not keen on rotten onions).
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| dough |
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| added this to the leaven |
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| to stop the dough sticking while proving |
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| to stop the dough from sticking while proving |
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| cooking bread slowly in earthenware in the beastie |
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| trusty tin |
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| wood fired beastie |
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| leaven overflowing |
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| a sourdough loaf from the earthenware pot - this tasted like proper bread |
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| leaven revived |
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| leaven rivived with strong white not spelt |
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