Pane Casalinga

Below is a bread morphed from the original formula for “Extreme loaf. Either through luck or carelessness, I mixed up sour dough, instead using a potato levain started for another bread – benefit of The River Cafe book. After mixing the dough, I noticed...

Grapeseed Flour

When I'd first purchased Richard Bertinet's book on bread, I'd remember seeing something about grapeseed flour from Canada. At the time, I thought it a bit of flash in the pan. Fast forward to now and Eli Colvin and Craig Ponsford have been singing its...

Double “00”

Recently I found a bag of Antimo Caputo tipo “00” flour,” and decided to test it alongside with my recent purchase of Anson Mills  “Pizza Maker’s Flour – “00” farina.” Doppio “00” (Double  Zero) is...

Fannette

Fannette It's bread named after a friend of baker Roland Feuillas. It's also a bread that has challenged my patience and flour purchasing. I finally succeeded, with the final test coming by way of Thierry Delabre a student of  master...

Long Ferment Sandwich Loaf

Hankering a good loaf pan bread, but not a white floured one, I went here, a  long fermentation formula. Given an overnight soak to both grain and flour with a bit of ferment, the next day I mixed in the final bit of water and flour and carried on with shaping and...