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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Set up mostly to document my breadmaking progess and tweaks to recipes. Will update from my iPhone so most posts will be brief and the photos will not be all that stellar, but I'll do what I can. I was going to keep this blog private, but what the heck... Maybe it will be of interest to someone. If anyone's interested take a peek, leave a howdy in the comments, whatever.

Misc loaves

Free shaped french loaf

Baguettes

ABED sanfrancisco sourdough recipe

Sourdough rolls

ABED sanfrancisco sourdough recipe.

Sourdough Boule

Amazing oven spring. No crumb shot gave it to friends. Guess it could use deeper cut.

Baguettes

Reinhart sanfrancisco sourdough recipe from artisan breads every day. These came out really well. I've made this recipe a few times since and gotten good results every time. Stretch and fold rocks. I think I added 100g wheat to these, if not I know I did on later versions. Double recipe.

Sourdough pizza

Looked better than it tasted. Dough was cardboard probably because I let my daughter reshape and toss a bunch of times. Was fun though.

Baguttes 2

Didn't work out too well. BBA again.

First baguettes

First baguette attempt. I think from reinhart apprentice.

Olive levain 1.3 kilo boule

Olive levain 1.3 kilo boule first try
April 15, 2010, 3:30am
ABED levain recipe

79g olives
1224g levain dough

Cooked in pot. Used paper sling to lower (actually plop). 15 mins covered. 15 + 5 + 5 + 5 cook.

Nice crust. Ok crumb. Needed more rise time, it was getting stupid late- 3:30am for cook. Use more olives next time.