Levain baguettes

Bake time =35 mins

Sourdough olive boules

Abed levain recipe, about 700g olives added (double recipe)





Life lesson: chop olives before mixing into dough. The whole olives spewed out like little marbles all over the counter.

Crumb wasn't as open as I like. I may have degassed too much or not risen enough. Have to give this another try.

Stephen Kaplan on Conan O'Brien

I love that no one in the audience got the "bind" joke at the beginning - dead silence - It took me a second, I'm sure Conan spent some time thinking it up beforehand....

My last few baguettes get the ugly award... gonna have to work on that, now that I can make bread that actually tastes good...

Sunday April 18

2 wheat boules, 11 baguettes. All going to a friend's party, though I'm already 2 hrs late.

I let the dough bulk ferment too long - 4 days instead of 3 max. I think the baguettes came out a little pekid because of it.
Batch 1 baguettes:








Batch 2 baguettes:



Whole wheat boules:

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Misc loaves

Free shaped french loaf

Baguettes

ABED sanfrancisco sourdough recipe