#sorbet #recipe
Plums Plum puree (a kind of concentrated jam) Invert sugar Lemon juice Amaretto (could be a plum liquor instead) Cinnamon
Blend the ingredients to a puree, stir in 10% invert sugar. Season to taste with the juice of one lemon, amaretto and cinnamon.
Freeze in the freezer or ice cream maker.
Last week I held about 25g of dough over. I fed it yesterday morning with 50g each of flour and water. In the evening it had started to bubble.
All 125g of it and some dry yeast went into the bread roll dough.
This time I’m going for bigger rolls, (4 * 150) / 1.67 = 360 g of flour, 67% hydration, 2% salt and 34% starter.
Yeah, I know, forgot about the 5% idea from last week.
I need to work on my forming and cutting, otherwise quite stoked.
My dough was getting softer and softer. I dropped hydration to 60%, still soft.
So I searched the internet, as you do. This time specifically German sourdough baking.
I had been holding back a bit of the dough from a bake and stored it in the fridge between bakes. As anticipated this turned into sourdough, with a really nice smell, turning my bread rolls even better tasting.
Than, after a few bakes, we entered soft dough territory.
My “research” suggested that keeping the old dough in the fridge, adding all of it to the new dough, and then fermenting the dough in the fridge over night led to too much lacto bacillus. This leads to enzymatic action that weakens/destroys the starch structure.
So, change of method:
Continue with normal method.
Much improved, need to up the size though
#recipe #FavaBeanPurée
Since last year, or thereabouts, we have a bag of fave secce (dried broad beans) in the larder. While doing the week’s shopping I had the idea to purée them and mix them, cold, with herbs and a vinaigrette.
By dint of my not complete reading of the product description when ordering, the beans were not peeled before drying, which turns the leathery skin of the ripe bean kernel into carapace. Good for the shelve life, I guess.
So I watered about 700 g, I forgot to weigh them, beans over night.
Then peeling commenced, this was, mostly, easier than anticipated. Some of the drier beans were difficult, but the rest went easy.
The beans were then cooked in water, together with one quartered onion, 3 sprigs of rosemary and 2 fresh bay leaves.
After about an hour the beans were done. The water, the bay leaves and the rosemary stalks, were discarded and then I let them steam off, while I made a lemongraitte.
First the peel of two lemons was grated and then mixed with salt, Dijon mustard, the juice and the olive oil into a very sharply lemony vinaigrette.
Beans and vinaigrette were mixed and puréed.
Now I’m waiting for the purée to cool before mixing in a bunch each of flat-leaf parsley, dill and chives.
First impression - tasty, but VERY lemony (from the peel)
Now the herbs have been added and the purée has cooled it is still lemony, but it went from VERY lemony to lemony, GREAT.
Made Tagliatelle Quattro Formaggi for the first time. Easy and tasty. Tasty I knew of course, but somehow I hadn’t understood how easy a #recipe it is.
Cut the cheeses, roughly equal proportions, in pieces. In a saucepan add the cheeses, cream and a little milk, slowly heat until the cheese melts, keep stirring.
As the sauce got ready I boiled the ready made tagliatelle, mixed with the sauce, done.
Cheeses used: Parmesan, Swiss Bergkäse (could be Gruyère), sweet Gorgonzola, Camembert (because I forgot to buy the Taleggio).
I see some happy experimenting in the future
#CuccinaItaliana #QuattroFormaggi #Pasta
Leaving aside my forgetting for the second week in a row to put steam into the oven, the #BreadRolls keep getting better.
Hydration reduced to 65%, 28% old dough (sourdough), 2% salt, 1% dry yeast.
Fermented overnight in the fridge.
Oven heated to 250C + and held there for 30 minutes to heat through the pizza steel. Put rolls into the oven, directly above the steel, reduced temperature to 220C and baked for 30 minutes.
I reduced the weight per roll to 80g, will go to 100g next time, too much crust for too little crumb.
#baking #sourdough #recipe
Still the easiest way to get to sourdough. Make your preferred bread (or in this case bread roll dough) and hold some back.
Mine goes into the fridge in a jam jar. One week later your nose will confirm, sourdough.
I feed once and then incorporate into my dough. When I start shaping one undersized bread roll goes into the jam jar.
#sourdough
Tomorrow I’m planning on making, or rather try to make, baguette. As the dough is basically the same as my #BreadRoll #recipe yesterday I made a bigger batch of the dough.
Though the hydration at 70% is the same as my normal recipe, the dough was almost unshapable and could definitely not be cut.
So they’ve burst at odd places.
Will report on the baguettes tomorrow.
#baguette #baking
Quite happy with the look of my first baguette. At 70% hydration portioning and shaping were not easy. As with the bread rolls from yesterday, making cuts was difficult
1000 g flour (550)
700 g water
20 g salt
14 g dry yeast
Mixed, fermented in the fridge
Took 780 g of the dough for the bread rolls after a day in the fridge. Gave it an hour on the counter before shaping, then another 30 mins on the baking sheet
The dough for the baguettes got another day in the fridge plus three stretch & folds
Then an hour on the counter, pre shaping, and after the final shaping onto a couche made from baking parchment for another 30 mins
For both rolls and baguettes I put a pizza steel and an empty tray into the oven, heated to 240° C, put some water into the tray and baked the rolls and baguettes for 20 - 30 minutes
Next batch. Dropped hydration to 68%, still too wet for my skills. Oven to maximum, ca 260° C, 20 mins
Couldn’t even cut the loaves this time. Crust could have been a bit stronger and darker.
This time I used a 65% hydration and kept the dough cold longer. I think it was less the reduction in hydration than the temperature that made forming much easier this time.
Also this time I used some of the dough I kept back last week and stored in a jam jar in the fridge since then. I am very curious to taste this batch.
Went back to 70% hydration, shaped right after coming out of the fridge. Again I held some dough ca 40 g back for rolls/baguette next week. It’s now hibernating in a jam jar in the fridge.
Today is K2s birthday. And she has invited more or less the whole family to barbecue at home. So this time I had to use double of the bread, roll recipe and forward measure do another focaccia.
To make it all a little more exciting this time I am mostly used the held back dough from the last baking plus enough instant yeast for 500 g of flour.
The focaccia is 750 g 00 and 250 g semola. The bread rolls 1000 g type 550 (bread flour).
When the door went into the fridge, after sitting out on the counter for about two hours, I started to get worried that I had put too little yeast into the dough. I’ve put it into the fridge anyway.
This morning, it was nicely bubbly as usual.
Smaller batch for this Sunday, again with some old dough from the last baking.
#recipe
Make labneh from the yoghurt. Put yoghurt on a paper towel in a kitchen sieve in a bowl, and let the wey run out over night.
In a mini blender blend the lemon, dill, garlic, salt and pepper.
Mix into the labneh
#recipe
1,2 kg beef, cubed 1 kg leeks, sliced 1 head of new garlic 5 pointed peppers 700 ml passata 1 glass of red wine salt 1 tbsp black pepper 1 tbsp rose paprika (hot) 2 tbsp sweet paprika chilli to taste sour creme
Brown the meat, then, separately wilt the leak, add the peppers and the halved head of garlic. Then add back the meat, spices, red wine, sour creme and passata. Bring to a boil.
In an oven heated to 130 C cook for three hours.
I was to lazy to peel and dice 1 kg of onions, but the frozen, sliced onions were sold out. Leeks were available. Leeks are something not entirely unheard of in Belgium.
340 g water (lukewarm) 15 g fresh yeast (or 5 g dry yeast) 10 g salt 455 g wheat flour (type 550)
Mix all the ingredients and leave covered to prove for two hours. Continue proving over night in the refrigerator.
Next morgen shape into 6 rolls and let prove on the baking sheet for an additional 30 minutes before placing in the oven, heated to 230° C.
Pour halve a cup of water on the bottom of the oven.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
Update 2023-05-17
Reduced water to 315 g
Will report how it goes
Update 2023-05-18
At 70% hydration the rise was basically the same. Shaping was easier and the dough slightly less sticky.
Crumb as nice as before.
Will Go with 70% hydration for the next bakes.
#recipe
#sorbet #sorbetto #recipe #blueberries
600 g blueberries 200 g sugar (sugar syrup) 1 lemon, juice of 1 jigger gin
Mix everything in a bowl using a blender, until smooth. Optionally pass mixture through a sieve, which is an excellent way to spread blue stains around.
Freeze with ice machine, alternatively put mixture into freezer, stir well every 30 minutes or so until consistency is good.
#recipe
Mix all ingredients, except the Cornichons and egg, in a blender. Season to taste, add Cornichon and egg, done.
wrap peeled onion in baking paper, microwave for 2-3 minutes ↩︎
this basically works, but needs a lot more concentrated flavours than the home made version. will keep testing.
#recipe #icecream #custard #blackberry
Todays custard based ice cream is a test, as I’m using store bought custard. Objective: find out if this is an alternative if a quick ice cream is desired.
Now churning away in the ice machine
#recipe #RahmGulasch #pork #gulash
2500 g pork goulash
1000 g onions, sliced
1200 ml chicken stock
600 ml whipping cream
3 tbsp chilli salt (salt, brown sugar, chilli, pepper, allspice, mustard seeds, cloves)
bunch tarragon
Lemon zest
Bring to the boil, finish simmering in the oven at 130 C for 3 hours with the lid slightly open.
Caution: Cream curdles, just mix well and then thicken a little.
Season to taste with salt, pepper and lemon juice.
This gives a lot of sauce, maybe reduce the broth.
Orange vinaigrette #recipe
20 g white wine vinegar 80 g olive oil 100 g orange juice 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons sugar 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard 2 teaspoons Tangerine jam
Spiced butter #recipe
1 red chilli 1 sprig rosemary 1 sprig thyme 2 teaspoons smoked paprika 2 teaspoons spice salts (salt, chilli, pepper, yellow mustard, cloves, allspice, juniper) 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
I needed (read that as wanted) to make a lot of pancakes, I also wanted to use some buckwheat in the recipe
This is what I came up with after some research in my notes and the internet
350 g wheat flour (450) 150 g buckwheat flour 1 l of milk (3,5% fat) 8 medium eggs
The batter was rested for about 2 hours before baking
Worked and tested great
#Pancake #Recipe
#recipe
In www.zahr.koeln/2022/12/1… I put the beef into the marinade.
Today took it out of the marinade and salted, peppered and browned the meat all around. The meat went with diced carrots, celeriac, leek, onion into a cast iron pot. Added Pumpernickel and Lebkuchen, 1 l of beef broth and enough of the marinade to mostly cover. Brought to a simmer. Now for 3 h in the oven at 120 C
The sauce will be done tomorrow.
So, Cristmas Lunch prep done. #Sauerbraten #recipe
2.5 kg of beef (leg) will marinate for a week in 1l of red wine, 0.5l of red wine vinegar, water so that the meat is covered.
spices: onions, coriander, pepper, allspice, paprika, juniper berries, mustard seeds, ginger, bay leaves, cloves, cinnamon, thyme, mace, carrot, leek, celeriac, parsley
Poured into an ice cube bag yesterday, now going from fridge to freezer. This is about half the fat from a goose dinner for eight.
#Gänseschmalz #GooseFat #Recipe
Soften the chopped onion in the goose fat, add the sausage meat and break it up.
Add herbs, salt and spices.
When sausage meat is fried add the cabbage. When the cabbage starts to collapse add the stock and braise for 15 minutes.
Serve with substantial pasta.
#recipe #SavoyCabbage #Wirsing #Schawur
Potatoes, 1 kg Carrots, 1 kg Onions, 2 Sausage, 5 (Grobe Bratwurst) Rosemary Thyme Salt Lemon, 1/2 TSp Pepper, 1 TSp Salt Olive Oil
180 C, 1 hour
#SundayDinner #recipe
So, now we have a working recipe for frozen yoghurt.
We use 300 g of Greek or Turkish yoghurt and 200 g of cream. To that we add some vanilla extract and a fruit compote or juice or jelly and some sugar, of course.
#recipe
2 parts tsatsiki 1 part Hela Curry Gewürzketchup 1 part sauce remoulade
Mix, enjoy
