A bunch of our all-time favorite bread baking books in no particular order.
A bunch of our all-time favorite bread baking books in no particular order.
How much do you know about the olive oil you serve with your bread? Did you know that researchers at UC Davis have confirmed that almost 70% of “extra virgin olive oil” doesn’t even meet the actual standard? In fact, the New York Times even exposed that most of your olive oil doesn’t even come …
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See instructions for reviving your starter HERE.
Pompe à l’huile is a traditional Christmas dessert from Provence, France. It’s an olive oil bread that’s subtly sweet, very soft, and tantalizingly aromatic with orange and anise. The bread is made in a pull-apart style that’s perfect for sharing and savoring warm from the oven.
8/7/2016 The Grain Gathering is held at the Washington State University-Mount Vernon Research Station. Many of the sessions were under tents amidst picturesque fruit orchards and a short walk to the test wheat fields. A truly lovely, bucolic setting and the July weather was perfect. Attendees had class options options to choose from. The first …
These sourdough leavened olive baguettes are kind of spectacular. They have a touch of rye flour and so much crispy golden crust to enjoy with the bursts of olive flavor. The airy crumb can hold plenty of olive oil, and the baguettes also pair well with soft cheeses like ricotta and burrata, or shavings of hard cheese like pecorino romano and grana padano.
Welcome to Bageltopia; the Breadtopia bagel recipe and video tutorial for making genuine Vermont sourdough bagels (i.e. the best bagels in the world).
One baker’s attempt to take some of the mystery out of sourdough bread baking.
It’s easy to bring a dried starter back to life, or resuscitate a live one
Baking bread successfully with lower-gluten, heritage and ancient grains usually requires some adjustments to your process and ingredients. This post details how to achieve an open crumb and good oven spring with these more challenging grains.
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Is There Hope For The Gluten-Sensitive Bread Lover? In this article the author, Liza Saturley, discusses the gluten intolerance issue and how it relates to bread. It shows how the use of heirloom varieties of wheat, home (or stone) milling, and natural sourdough starter leavening may offer bread consumption hope to gluten sensitive people. What …
Milled Fresh — Our turkey red whole grain flour is milled fresh upon order, using grain organically grown by family-owned farms that are committed to ideals of sustainable stewardship of our natural resources for those of future generations. We use granite stone mills and mill at low temperature within a day or two of shipping …
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”.
About bolted flour: Bolted (or high extraction) flour is whole grain flour with some percentage of the bran sifted out, which makes it a nice compromise between hearty 100% whole grain and all purpose white flour. It’s ideal for when you want a lighter loaf or dough yet wish to retain the high nutrition found in …
These are whole unmilled Turkey Red wheat berries organically grown by a family owned farm committed to the ideals of sustainable stewardship of our natural resources for us and for future generations. Performs similarly to and can be used in place of modern Hard Red Winter wheat. Turkey Red Wheat — once the dominant variety of hard red …
JK Adams French Rolling Pin This French Rolling Pin features the classic French handleless design with tapered ends for easy grasping, providing balance when rolling, to create the perfect pie crusts, pizza dough, cookies or other pastries. The unfinished wood is naturally less sticky than finished pins as it takes on flour over time. 20.5″ …
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