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Make this picture-perfect chocolate hazelnut babka with hints of orange and amazing texture. This award-winning recipe has a silky enriched dough, gobs of Nutella or homemade chocolate-hazelnut spread, chopped hazelnuts inside and out, and a beautiful twisted presentation.
Glass bread or “pan de cristal” from Spain is a fun high hydration challenge for bakers and it rewards your courage with crusty, scrumptious loaves for perfect Catalonian tomato bread aka “pan con tomate,” as well as bruschetta, garlic bread, and any sandwich you want to be crispy and never soggy or leaky.
You can make this basic all purpose flour sourdough bread recipe into beautiful crusty artisan-style bread or a soft and tender sandwich bread. You can choose either a 1-day process baking in the evening or an overnight refrigeration of the dough for a morning bake. It’s simple, easy to follow, and the results are delicious.
These whole grain sourdough bagels have the most important characteristic of bagels; they’re chewy. The inside has just the right density and texture, and the “skin” is thick and malty. On top of that, the bagels are full of the fiber, flavor, and nutrients of whole grain heritage wheat flours.
Stenciling bread is a fun way to add a decorative finishing touch to your bread masterpieces. In this post we detail various tips, tricks and ingredients you can use to make your stencils come out clearer and with nice color and contrast.
Tsoureki is a braided Greek holiday bread. It has orange zest along with mastic and mahleb, which impart flavors of cherry, almond, and pine. It’s so tasty, and this variation uses whole grain flour for more fiber and nutrients. You can enjoy it any time of year for a soft, flavorful, and fiber-full bread that fills your home with amazing aromas.
Store your starter in a container with a loosely fitting top. A mason jar works well as long as the lid isn’t screwed down tight. Or a wire bale jar as long as you don’t use the rubber gasket. Latching the jar without the gasket will allow sufficient air passage but will prevent the starter from …
This whole grain recipe for Turkish simit incorporates golden khorasan and hard white wheats for extra flavor and nutrition. The twisted sesame-coated crust is full of texture and has a slight sweetness from grape molasses. Enjoy simit with tea and a savory Mediterranean breakfast or drizzle the simit with honey for a sweet afternoon treat.
Breadtopia invited Jennifer Lapidus, founder of Carolina Ground flour mill and author of the award-winning book Southern Ground, to share her method for creating desem, a Flemish sourdough starter with a delicious fruity aroma and a distinctive approach for nurturing compared with typical sourdough starter. Give desem a try! Its low-key cold feeding schedule is great for beginners and experts alike — perfect as your only starter or for a second option in your refrigerator.
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Sweet tamales are unique, delicious, and a fun project for holiday desserts or breakfasts. Using fresh red corn masa flour, the flavors of heirloom corn come through beautifully and compliment the sweet fruity filling.
Scalding is a technique involving cooking a portion of the flour for a bread dough with relatively high hydration at a specific temperature which creates a gelatinized starch which can hold a lot more water than a normal bread dough mix. It also induces chemical reactions that create a sweeter flavor and make the bread more easily digestible.
Piadina or piada is an ancient Italian flatbread made with just a few ingredients: flour, water or milk, olive oil or lard, salt, and sometimes baking soda. This recipe adds sourdough starter to the mix to add the flavors of fermented flour and water, and the option to ferment the entire dough. Piadinas are so delicious and versatile; you can try this recipe with different flour varieties and serve the piadinas with savory or sweet fillings.
To be perfectly honest, at Breadtopia, we’re not exactly hands-on experts at long term grain storage. We do store large volumes of many different grains, but because we have a lot of turnover we never have any given shipment of grain sitting in our warehouse for more than a few months. But because we get asked about it all the time, we’ve compiled a page with some resources.
Understanding the differences between the various types of flour that are used to bake bread can mean the difference between an airy, lofty loaf of bread and a dense, un-risen “frisbee”.
See this blog post to learn about different options and guidelines for storing and freezing home baked bread, along with a few practical tips for mailing it.
More than you need to know about keeping your sourdough starter happy, healthy, and ready to bake with.
Make homemade super soft French bread for sandwiches using this beginner-friendly recipe. If you need more than two rolls, the recipe can easily be doubled and / or shaped in different ways and it freezes well too.
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