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Oh Focaccia

Slightly dark focaccia, dimpled, with flaky salt sitting on a cooling rack

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Oh, the shame

The rise is fairly /unspectacular/.

What did I do differently:

  • took the starter (old dough) out of the fridge a day early
  • pre-heated the oven and hour longer

Mhm.

6 bread rolls, relatively smooth on top as the rise was not pronounced, otherwise ok

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Back to basics

6 crusty bread rolls with „erupted“ tops, dusted with flour on top, a dark reddish brown towards the bottom, cooling on the rack.

Went back to my basic recipe. Still got it ;-)

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Larger rolls, softer crumb

I added olive oil to my dough to get a softer crumb. Also I tried to go for longer rolls (normal in .de) but did not give the rolls enough support while proofing.

I should have cut them, they did not rip open as my normal rolls.

formed dough on the baker’s linen, forgot to give them support with folds

4 rolls in the oven, more a panini form, less bread roll

4 rolls on the cooling rack. Intentionally less browning, more panini then roll

Taste and texture are good though. Not what I wanted, but tasty.

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Rolls again, doesn’t it get boring?

In a word, no. The pictures show more consistency than is really there.

Back to cold fermenting, otherwise recipe unchanged, 4 instead of 6 rolls.

A little dark maybe.

Close up of crusty, crackly, fairly dark bread roll, dusted with flour. More rolls in the background.

@teamsauerteig@a.gup.pe @brotbacken@a.gup.pe #bread #brot #baking #backen #sourdough #sauerteig #LievitoMadre #brötchen #BreadRolls

Sunday Rolls

Regular recipe, added some olive oil for a softer crumb. Doesn’t seem to have done much. Maybe with larger rolls?

Tan coloured rolls, dusted with flour, close up

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Did bread this week

No change to the dough. Looks good. Waiting for a test.

Sourdough bread, fairly dark, sprenkled with flour, nice cuts.

Sourdough bread, close up of a cut with nice ear

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Crusty Rolls, one again

I’ve “struggled” with consistency. While results always tasted good, they always were good bread, they also always were different.

Sometimes the crumb, sometimes the crust, sometimes the rise, the taste, …

But now I’m getting there

6 crusty bread rolls, dusted with flour, sitting on a cooling rack

Close up of a freshly baked, round roll, dusted with flour against the tan and brown hues of the bread

@teamsauerteig@a.gup.pe @brotbacken@a.gup.pe #bread #brot #baking #backen #sourdough #sauerteig #LievitoMadre #brötchen #BreadRolls

Renewed

Successfully restarted the sourdough starter with last weeks old dough.

The bread looks “normal”, which is a good thing.

two batards of Wuzenbrot, freshly baked the close up shows thee root like structure, which gives Wurzenbrot its name

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Forgotten “Old Dough”

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Last week I baked some more Wurzenbrot www.zahr.koeln/2024/02/0… and forgot to keep back some of the old dough to use as starter. Merde.

So this week’s bread rolls started with a biga and then cold fermented over night.

6 crusty bread rolls on a cooling rack.

close up of the rolls, good colour, nicely burst, dusted with flour

They look good, smell good, and hope they also taste good.