Tried my hand at the king arthur pan de cristal recipe today, but I didn't have bread flour, so instead of 500g bread flour, mine is 300g AP and 200g semolina, which gives it that wonderful golden color.
Didn't have the massive open crumb I was hoping for, but I think it over-proofed a little.
The result was still fantastic, the flavor is incredible, the crust is crunchy without tearing your mouth up like sourdough can do sometimes. Overall I'm very very happy with it
This is my latest obsession - bread filled to the brim with seeds and whole grains. A bit like the danish rugbrød and I bet the Germans have something similar too.
Method (1 loaf)
The only things I measure is the water and seeds, the rest I find no use in measuring. Whole flour coarsely ground can have such varying absorption rates depending on age and storage. Going by feel is mandatory.
500g water
Some yeast (or sourdough). Use a quantity that makes the bake fit into your schedule. I used about 8-10g fresh yeast.
Dissolve yeast into water with your preferred method.
Add seeds. I used 2dl in total split between 1dl sunflower, 1/2dl flax and 1/2dl psyllium seeds
Begin adding flour. I used a mix of coarse ground whole rye (1/3) and graham flour (2/3). This is a tricky part to describe as I go by feel. At this point I want a "sloppy batter". It will stiffen as the flour absorbs water. My desired final texture is a
Dough:
2 eggs
35g sugar
580g bread flour (I used @kingarthurbaking)
12g kosher salt
35g softened unsalted butter
100g whole milk
6g instant yeast
Tangzhong:
120g whole milk
120g water
40g bread flour
+4 mozzarella sticks cut into 3 sections (12 total)
Make the tangzhong. Whisk all tangzhong ingredients in a small pot until no lumps remain. Then stir continuously over medium heat until the mixture resembles mashed potatoes. Remove from heat and let cool for 5 mins
In the bowl of a stand mixer, add the tangzhong and all other dough ingredients except for butter. Using the dough hook attachment, mix for 5 mins until the dough comes together. Add the butter and mix for 8-10 mins or until a rough window pane is achieved
Shape the dough into a ball, place into a bowl, cover, and let rise for 1.5-2hrs or until almost doubled in size
Punch dough to deflate and divide into 12 equal sections. Form into balls. Cover and let rest for 10 mins. Meanwhile lightly grease a 9
My favourite dessert to make! Yeast dough is just really fun to work with. We always eat them all before remember to get photos after baking. I use this recipe from King Arthur Baking. Pretty much all my bread recipes are from there, since they have the ingredient weights listed.
Hi all! Excited to be trying out Lemmy after only lurking on Reddit for the last 10+ years. I’m going to try to be a better community contributor here… though it’s admittedly a little scary for me to be posting, haha.
This was a simple 20% rye, 80% bf loaf made with Mario, my small-town Italian sourdough starter, which was brought home to me by a traveling neighbor a few years ago.
I love Mario. He’s smells richly floral and has notes of red apple while chillin’ in his jar. Mario makes breads with awesome potential, and he’s helping me slowly improve my abilities with each new bake. I just friggen love baking bread. That crackle sound as it cools? always makes me grin and do a little dance.
Haha, ok now I’m rambling. Cheers to all you bread lovers. Much love from me and Mario, and may all your bakes be tall and tasty!
So I was a bit hesitant to share this, since my bread's presentation is pretty rough. However, it's really tasty and my family tends to devour it pretty quickly so it must be good, right?
Anyway, here's my novice bread! It's typical white bread using normal flour, nothing terribly fancy (yet). My plan is to keep baking and improve, though my technique still needs work (I don't know about "punching bread" and I kinda just, scoop it all into a pan).
Also this is my first post, I hope I did everything right - ahhh
Im not particularly skilled but this is some bread me and my dad used to make together. Its pretty dry and not very pretty looking but its very good, especially with soup.
Hey! Here's a photo from my archives. 20% rye sourdough (with 25% high gluten flour and the rest AP). Overnight bulk ferment at 15C. For a while during COVID I was baking once weekly for some supplemental income. This was early on in my learning process for how to manage larger batches. It was helpful to have a commercial fridge available to slow things down, as I am in the tropics.
Since the recipe comes to us from the ancestors using volume measurements, I offered to try to translate it to using weights instead of volumes. https://onlineconversion.com/cooking.htm says 6 cups of flour is, near as makes no difference, 750 grams, and 2.25 cups of oats is 225g. The 3 cups of water is tricksy though, at 710grams the recipe looks like 95%ish hydration based on the flour weight, but oats are going to soak up a lot of that.
Originally, I planned to make it pretty close to the original recipe (halved to fit in one pan,) but since the original recipe has all the water being added to the oats, I wanted to see how much H2O was free to combine with the flour. So, I soaked the oats alone, with the intention of draining them and weighing the soaking liquid. I guess I left the soak a little longer than Great-
Method blatantly adapted (stolen) from Forkish's Raisin Walnut in Evolutions in Bread:
Soak cranberries in herbal tea at least 1 hour, drain well reserving liquid.
Mix flours and liquids just until wet and shaggy
15 mins autolyze.
Add salt, yeast, and berries
Fold/pincer until well mixed.
Rest 5 minutes, then fold in the pecans
3 hours bulk with 2 folds in the first 90 minutes.
Shape.
1 hour proof
30 minutes in 450f Dutch with lid
30 minutes at 420f no lid.
Notes
As made, the dough was very sticky and hard to shape, but I was being impatient because I started late. Underproofed?
The orange fla