Cover to Cover
I have decided to try and cook every recipe in the book, flour, water, salt, yeast. It is (obviously) not a travel blog, but I am hoping it will be quite fun. My freind, Fraser, who inspired me to join him on the “Lockdown Loaves” venture during the COVID pandemic recommended this book to me. I recently re-used it to find a better pizza dough recipe than the one in my woodfired oven book, and it was sooooo much better, I thought I would read it, learn more about it, and then, why not just work my way through the book!
So I will just do half, measures because I don’t think we need to eat that much bread, and I will be able to get through the book a bit quicker. I will also blog it, as I quite enjoy blogging and it gets me to practice using the technology bit.
After 5 loaves the Satruday 75% whole wheat loaf is winning, with the Harvest Loaf with Poolish 2nd.
Straight Doughs
WHITE BREAD WITH POOLISHHARVEST– BREAD WITH POOLISHWHITE BREAD WITH 80% BIGA50% WHOLE WHEAT BREAD WITH BIGA
Doughs made with pre-ferments
THE SATURDAY WHITE BREAD THE SATURDAY75% WHOLE WHEAT BREADOVERNIGHT WHITE BREADOVERNIGHT 40% WHOLE WHEAT BREAD 93
Hybrid Leavening Doughs
PAIN DE CAMPAGNE- 75% WHOLE WHEAT LEVAIN BREAD
- BRAN-ENCRUSTED LEVAIN BREAD
- WALNUT LEVAIN BREAD
- FIELD BLEND #1
- FIELD BLEND #2
Pure Levain Doughs
- OVERNIGHT COUNTRY BLONDE
- OVERNIGHT COUNTRY BROWN
- PAIN AU BACON
Advanced Levain Doughs
- DOUBLE-FED SWEET LEVAIN BREAD
- WHITE FLOUR WARM-SPOT LEVAIN 185
Straight Doughs
SAME-DAY STRAIGHT PIZZA DOUGHOVERNIGHT STRAIGHT PIZZA DOUGH- OVERNIGHT PIZZA DOUGH WITH LEVAIN
- OVERNIGHT PIZZA DOUGH WITH POOLISH
Pizza Sauces
- SMOOTH RED SAUCE
- CHUNKY RED SAUCE
- TOMATO FILLETS
Pizza stone pizzas
- PIZZA MARGHERITA
- THE NEW YORKER
- SALAMI PIZZA
- GOLDEN BEET AND DUCK BREAST”PROSCIUTTO” PIZZA
- SWEET POTATO AND PEAR PIZZA
Focaccia
- FOCACCIA GENOVESE
- FOCACCIA “PISSALIDIERE”
- ZUCCHINI FOCACCIA
Overnight Straight Pizza Dough
As the weather is finally better we decided to test out the pizza oven again. So the natural dough to try is this one!
The Saturday, 75% Whole Wheat Bread #3
After I was ill, I seemed to develop a reaction to white flower where I would get bloating and stomach cramps. ……
Pain de Campagne
So, this is my first time using natural yeast to make bread from this book. I read a lot of his background notes that he
Same day straight pizza dough
We have a student staying with us at the moment and we try and do pizza with them using the wood-fired oven. I have also
The Saturday, 75% Whole Wheat Bread #2
Ingredient Quantity Baker’s Percentage Whole wheat flour 375g 75% White flour 125g 25% Water 360g at 32°C to 35°C 80% Salt (should be posh but…)
White Bread with 80% Biga #1
Biga Ingredient Quantity White bread flour 800g Water 544g at 27 deg Yeast 3/16th of a teaspoon Final Dough Ingredient Quantity White bread flour