Six-plaited challah isn't an easy achievement. Not at all! But here's a tip, one strand to the left, another to the middle. And so on. Using heritage-grain flour, I tinkered recently with various formulas, all the while juggling the numbers until hitting the perfect...
"Detmold Einstufenführung" is the name of a German process developed in the late-1950s for their larger bakeries, and was designed to produce daily sourdough bread in bulk. Below is a shortened version that offers a way to create a mature sourdough within 16 hours....
Below is an Austrian "roggenmischbrot," a rye sourdough bread that has defied perfection in previous baking attempts. Tweaking my approach, I used a dry sourdough (aka "gerstel"), and this time the Gods were with me. It's a long wait for...
Gerstel is an Austrian drying method to better keep your rye sourdough when not in use. It calls for mixing your sourdough with three times the amount of rye flour, then storing it in a mason jar. It will keep a week or two. To reactivate, try what's known...
I'm still perplexed and testing Maiorca, that ancient grain that has proven elusive to my attempts to incorporate it into a sourdough bread. Perhaps because of its quirkiness around protein bonding, high absorption, short mix and...
My sourdough was quite successful visiting California. I even used it to bake a batch of bagels. Despite legends about the impossibility of great bagels west of the Hudson, I nailed a nice batch to leave for my family. Photos below.
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