St. Honore is the signature loaf I was gifted when at Pierre Ragot’s boulangerie Maison St. Honore in Marseille. It’s basically a campagne style bread, with wheat and rye. Going through some bread notes I found some that fit the character of St. Honore...
Pain au Méteil is traditional country bread dough composed of two grains rye and wheat, good mixings for winter. This young starter amazed me as the dough behaved and proofed so well. A mahogany crust and evenly open crumb abounded. With a tab of cheese, or...
While in the past, I’ve written how easy it is to produce a slow levain, recently my boasting turned flat. Concretely, I found it wasn’t so easy. Goes to show this crazy passion is equal measures craft, science, and luck. Anyway, pumping up the ferment,...
Pavé describes a stone road, those famous ones ridden during the classic bicycle race Paris Roubaix (The hell of the north). It’s also a term for a simply shaped brick loaf of bread. While this dough rose, I took a nap. What I got was a light and crusty loaf...
Here’s a formula from the latest Bread Lines #26. I was not sure it would work but, voila, it did! It’s a classic brioche using a sponge fermentation, autolyse, timing that allowed me to leave it unmanaged while working my shift. The formula called for...
