Trabic@lemmy.today to Bready@lemmy.worldEnglish · 25 days agoThe best way to get me to make you another loaf is to send me a picture of what you did with this one.lemmy.todayexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up142arrow-down1external-linkThe best way to get me to make you another loaf is to send me a picture of what you did with this one.lemmy.todayTrabic@lemmy.today to Bready@lemmy.worldEnglish · 25 days agomessage-square4fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTrabic@lemmy.todayOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-225 days agoRecipe: 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!
minus-squareFermion@mander.xyzcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·25 days agoWhy do you start with a cold dutch oven instead of preheating it?
minus-squareTrabic@lemmy.todayOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·25 days agoIt 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.
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!
Why do you start with a cold dutch oven instead of preheating it?
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.