Bread

[Stephen M]

Experimented with some bread today, turned out very nice.

Roasted garlic, chestnut mushrooms and red capsicum in a mixture of butter, tahini, sea salt and tarragon. When that had cooled put in bowl and added water, flour, yeast as in standard dough.

The dough hook on my Kenwood is among my most useful kitchen tools.

 

[Stephen M]

Thought I would add that while the dough hook is superb, there is also the fact the kneading dough can be a tremendously therapeutic excercise.

 

[moosEh]

Nice! I've been loving bread recently. Not experimented with flavours yet but I am currently churning out 1-2 sourdough loaf out a week.

 

[ubuysa]

Bung stuff in breadmaker.

Switch breakmaker on.

Wait for breadmaker to beep.

Remove bread.

Enjoy!

 

[moosEh]

Bung stuff in breadmaker.

Switch breakmaker on.

Wait for breadmaker to beep.

Remove bread.

Enjoy!

But then you don't have the fun of smushing your ubu rage into the dough!

 

[Stephen M]

Have been experimenting quite a bit with different ingredients lately, including some sweet doughs.

Did up a mix of dried papaya and pineapple with some fresh pineapple to moisten the dried fruit before mixing, that was very nice, as was the cranberry and cashew loaf.

 

[Stephen M]

Update on mushroom bread, it is even better after about 24 hours as the mushroom taste gets stronger as the loaf settles.

 

[Derngek]

Here's a bread I made using leftover yogurt, some honey and chopped walnuts. I went with a flour roux method to help give it a lighter finish.
Other ingredients included butter, dried yeast, salt, milk and eggs.

It took a total of 10 hours to prove, which I've knocked back the dough 3 times.

It turned out to be slightly sweet and balanced with a slight hint of sourness from the yogurt. I served it sliced, toasted with a little drizzle of honey on top.

 

[Stephen M]

A simple but very enjoyable breakfast today. My mushroom bread toasted and topped with scrambled egg.

Next step will be to get some more truffles. I love truffle scrambled egg with smoked salmon. Usually have granary bread toasted with that but will try with the mushroom bread this time.

 

[Stephen M]

Another sweet dough today. Mixed some dried Pineapple and Papaya with tinned Lychees (fresh ones much better but wanted the juice) added some Cinnamon then mixed as a normal dough.

Formed into small buns then drizzled Maple syrup over, that went crunchy and made for a great topping.

 

[Derngek]

Made a chorizo, pancetta, parmasan and paprika bread using a focaccia base dough which contains a little potato flour.

Very rich, but tasty

 

[NoddyPirate]

Nice! I've been loving bread recently. Not experimented with flavours yet but I am currently churning out 1-2 sourdough loaf out a week.

Any chance you would post your recipe and instructions for your starter @moosEh ? I've been pondering making Sourdough for a while as I absolutely love it - but dealing with the starter for a full week has put me off!! I imagine churning out a regular supply of loaves is the way to do it really?

I've been making some Portuguese bread lately - reminding of the holidays I can't go on!! - not quite the type you usually get at a restaraunt in the the Algrave as a cover when you first sit down - it's more traditional and basic - but it's just gorgeous too!!

 

[moosEh]

Any chance you would post your recipe and instructions for your starter @moosEh ? I've been pondering making Sourdough for a while as I absolutely love it - but dealing with the starter for a full week has put me off!! I imagine churning out a regular supply of loaves is the way to do it really?

I've been making some Portuguese bread lately - reminding of the holidays I can't go on!! - not quite the type you usually get at a restaraunt in the the Algrave as a cover when you first sit down - it's more traditional and basic - but it's just gorgeous too!!

Honestly it took nearly 3 weeks for my starter to hit full force but I think thats because the house I rent is quite drafty and cold so it was a slow burner!

 

[NoddyPirate]

Honestly it took nearly 3 weeks for my starter to hit full force but I think thats because the house I rent is quite drafty and cold so it was a slow burner!

Yes it seems there is no way around the (relatively) labour intensive requirements of sourdough! I keep hoping to find a one day starter breakthrough - but I am accepting that just won’t happen!

 

[moosEh]

Here's pictures of my starter.

This was one of the first Sourdough breads I made

And this was this weeks! (Refused to leave the banneton without some encouragement)

 

[NoddyPirate]

Here's pictures of my starter.
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This was one of the first Sourdough breads I made

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And this was this weeks! (Refused to leave the banneton without some encouragement)

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Looks great @moosEh !

 

[SpyderTracks]

Here's pictures of my starter.
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This was one of the first Sourdough breads I made

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And this was this weeks! (Refused to leave the banneton without some encouragement)

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Wow, that looks really good!

 

[ubuysa]

I think it looks really really.....average. 🤭

 

[Stephen M]

Love sourdough and once found a decent simple kit for it, very basic was just a pre-prepared dried yeast mix and some flour but loaf was quite nice.

Bad news is that was a few years back and only found the stuff on sale in Australia.

 

[moosEh]

I think it looks really really.....average. 🤭