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.
Sometimes you know something is off with your dough, but you cross your fingers and bake it anyway only to have your suspicious confirmed when you lift the lid on your baking vessel. You’ve got a brick, a doorstop, a frisbee. Whatever nickname you give it, this isn’t something you can simply toast and make …
Sourdough crackers are perfect with cheese or dipped in hummus, and they’re tasty and interesting enough to have by themselves too. This recipe uses rye flour and black sesame seeds for an earthy and nutty cracker that pairs especially well with interesting cheeses.
Breadtopia family Thanksgiving meals are usually pretty heavy on sourdough leavened… well, nearly everything but the turkey, and we thought it would be nice to formally assemble many of our favorite Thanksgiving meal accompaniments in one place.
Don’t let sourdough versus commercial yeast stop you from trying a recipe. As long as you’re willing to pay attention to the dough and ignore the recipe’s rising-time recommendations, you can make a yeast recipe with sourdough starter and vice versa. I’m going to use the term “starter” throughout these instructions to refer to mature …
This bread is unique and beautiful, and also quite delicious. It works well for sandwiches and toast, and is also perfectly moist and interesting by itself.
A bunch of our all-time favorite bread baking books in no particular order.
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.
This loaf of 100% whole grain, sourdough leavened bread is the perfect “daily driver” for me; it’s exactly what I want to experience when I make some toast or a hearty sandwich. Sliced and buttered (un-toasted), it also makes a magnificent complement to a meal of soup or pasta.
Tourte de Seigle is a deep and earthy flavored whole grain rye bread from the Alps areas of France, Switzerland, and Germany. This recipe uses a relatively simple process and includes beer for enhanced malty flavors and aroma, and plain yogurt to boost the crumb texture with additional lactic acid.
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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.
IMPORTANT: The video below shows quick and easy setup instructions for your new Mockmill. If you don’t follow the procedure in there, you will not get good milling results. And if you do, you will get GREAT milling results.
This 100% whole grain bread has a light maple sweetness along with tasty oat and wheat flavors and the rich complexity of natural sourdough leavening.
This spelt bread recipe is as delicious and easy to make as it is nutritious. So when the inspiration strikes to get virtuous with your eating habits without sacrificing sensory pleasure, give this one a whirl.
Rouge de Bordeaux wheat is delicious, aromatic, and high in protein. This fresh-milled flour makes wonderful sourdough breads that pair well with cheese, soup, and more.
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 …
Baker’s percentage is a way to represent the ingredients of a recipe in relation to the amount of flour in the recipe. The flour is set at 100% and the ingredient weights (water, salt, yeast, sourdough starter, oil…etc) are divided by the flour weight to determine what percentage they are of the flour weight. For …
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Emmer wheat, also known as farro, is an ancient ancestor of modern durum, the wheat you see on the ingredient list of most storebought pasta. Compared with durum, emmer wheat berries are larger and nuttier in flavor, but both wheats make excellent pasta dough for rolling and extruding into different shapes of pasta.
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