A picture of my date-nut loaf on a board with prosciutto, cheese, olives, preserves, and red wine.

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    25 days ago

    Recipe:

    Ingredients: 70% Bread Flour. 30% Whole Wheat (emmer this time) flour.

    20% chopped dates and apricots soaked in earl grey tea, drained well reserving liquid. 15% chopped nuts, lightly toasted. 2.5% NaCl. 0.7% instant yeast.

    78% H2O, use the soaking liquid from the dates as half the water.

    Method: Mix all the flours and water, cover, let rest/autolyze for 30 minutes.

    Fold/pincer in the yeast and salt. Cover and Rest 10-15 minutes.

    Fold in the dates and nuts. Cover Rest another 10-15 minutes, until the dough relaxes a bit.

    Fold one more time, then room temperature bulk, 2.5 hours

    Shape and room temperature proof 1 hour.

    Put loaf into cold Dutch oven, put Dutch oven into COLD oven and set 230c

    Cook in Dutch oven 30 minutes covered.

    Uncover and turn oven down to 220c for 30 minutes.

    It always needs five more minutes, even if it already had five more minutes

    Let cool if you can.

    En Guete!

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        25 days ago

        It saves time and electricity.

        I think I got the idea from chainbaker on YouTube and find that it works just as well.

        In this case I was also doing baguettes so I had the oven preheated with the other loaf.