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A 150 g bread rolls

4 floured well risen crusty craggy rolls on a cooling rack

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Frozen sourdough

Before we went on vacation I froze my starter. This is now the first bake with the thawed starter.

It got refreshed 4 times and as the picture shows, quite a good rise.

The picture also shows that my shaping has room for improvement.

3 blond baguette, one slightly square

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Spelt baguette

As is often the case with me when I use spelt flour, the dough is too soft, at the end of the bag it will be fine, and then I’ll forget to write down the recipe, so next time I buy spelt flour I have to start again.

One and a half slightly flat but delicious spelt baguettes

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Getting there

Single baguette, golden brown, with somewhat shallow cuts, dusted with flour, on the cooling rack

Apart from the shallow cuts I’m very happy. Normal method, old dough only. 50g of last week’s dough, 50 g of flour and water each, fermented for 8 hours at 26 C.

Dough fermented in the fridge overnight.

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Neat

Yesterday my starter (50g dough from the previous bake) was a tad sluggish after its feed/fermentation, so I added 2g of dried yeast. Success.

4 small baguette with nice ears, waiting for breakfast

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Thin progress

Clearly much more equal than the last effort. But, maybe, a bit too long (and too thin). Proof will be in the eating.

three fairly thin sourdough baguette

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Need to up the shaping game

Made baguette from this starter

First fermented on the counter (slightly too long due to a cycle trip), than over night in the fridge.

The baguette started out the same weight, shaping is ok, but inconsistent. More work to do.

three fairly crusty baguette on a cooling rack, good rise, VERY different sizes, though they started the same weight

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Starter doing it’s thing

I use our joghurt maker to ferment the starter (50 g each: old dough, flour, water) at 24 C for 8 h. Works a treat.

white, one pot joghurt maker sitting on a counter top

through the clear lid of the joghurt maker we see the starter in its plastic container

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Quite happy

2 rolls and a baguette, nicely risen. The cut on one roll was too shallow, the others are nicely dramatic.

a baguette with dramatic ears lies diagonally on a cooling rack, a bread roll on either side.

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Yesterdays rolls

4 traditional German rolls sitting on the cooling rack

Got tired of round rolls, so made these instead

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