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BBA Breads

July 7, 2009

Over at Pinch My Salt, Nicole has posted a list of all the Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge breads, in order. And she’s adding links to each bread as she posts the entry for each. Great idea!
I have a hard time keeping track of, well, all sorts of things, and this will help! So here [...]

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Peter Reinhart’s Stretch & Fold Technique

July 6, 2009

Found this video on, where else, but YouTube, showing Peter Reinhart demonstrating his stretch and fold technique. I find watching these videos really helps. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how much is a video worth?

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Sourdough Challah

July 4, 2009

This is the next bread in line for the Bread Baker’s Apprntice Challenge.
I haven’t had challah before, nor have I ever seen it. I knew that it was a Jewish traditional bread and a favourite of some Jewish friends, and I knew it was usually braided. And that’s the extent of my knowledge about [...]

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Sourdough Casatiello

June 20, 2009

This week’s bread for the Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge is Peter Reinhart’s Casatiello. Which I consistently and unashamedly misspelled and mispronounced. It’s the Italian answer to brioche, but with meat and cheese inside. Or, at least, mostly inside…
I halved the recipe and converted it to grams. I [...]

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Shaping sourdough loaves

June 17, 2009

Here’s another video on shaping loaves. This one demonstrates shaping two French-type loaves and one boule, and the lady who’s demonstrating it, Natalie Greenway, makes it look so incredibly easy. At times, her fingers fly too fast and it’s difficult to see exactly what she’s doing, but with practice and effort, [...]

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Shaping a baguette

June 16, 2009

If you’re like me and having trouble shaping your breads, it might be time to turn to YouTube.
Oddly enough, as it might seem to those of you who live in countries with fast Internet, I don’t watch a lot of YouTube videos. Never have. Here, [...]

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More sourdough starter is a good thing, right?

June 15, 2009

 
It’ll make the bread dough rise faster, right? Right?
Uh, no. Not necessarily. Uhn uhn.
This all started with my wild yeast (aka sourdough or natural leaven) cinnamon buns. They took forever to rise. Forever being, oh, say, 8-10 hours at 30-35C for [...]

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Peter Reinhart’s Poor Man’s Brioche, Sourdough Version

June 13, 2009

This is the next bread in line for the Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge. I was looking forward to making brioche since so many people were huge fans, but since I hadn’t had brioche before, I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect.
I cut the recipe in half, [...]

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Sourdough Bagels 1 – Me 0

June 6, 2009

I’ve never been a bagel person, but given that the only bagels I’ve ever had were from supermarkets or the like in Western Canada, I doubt that I’ve had the best. Perhaps really good bagels will change my mind? No idea, but since bagels were next in the Bread Baker’s Apprentice [...]

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Baker’s Percentages and Bread Hydration

June 5, 2009

This gets to the science behind baking bread. If you can make an excellent loaf of bread that turns out exactly as you want it to without knowing anything about bread hydration and baker’s percentages, great! Me? Not so much.
I started reading up on [...]

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