Another day, another couple of breads (one to give away.)

Ingredients:
500gr strong white bread flour
225gr water
12gr fresh yeast
10gr salt
200gr boiled & cubed sweet potato
55gr rehydrated & cut up dried mushrooms

Pics:
1) After kneading
2) After the first hour of rest
3) After the shaping, scoring and proofing
5) After 35 minutes of baking at 200°C/392°F.

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Today, I decided to bake more #baguettes, but this time filled with #rum-soaked fruit*.

Ingredients
500gr 00 flour
320gr water
15gr fresh yeast
10gr salt
100gr rum-soaked fruit

As with the sautéd onion filling, I added the fruit at the very start of the process, right after adding the flour & salt to the bowl with the water & yeast solution.

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*I always have a big jar with rum & fruit on one of my dried herbs & spices shelves.

Having quite a big of trouble keeping pace with the #homebakedbread demands of our little household! I need a work area that's bigger than 1 sq.metre!

After a few rounds of less-than-great sourdough bread baking, I retreated to my comfort zone: #Baguettes.

(The cheese is a Dutch Very Old Cheese my sister sends me from Holland, once or twice a year, sealed and in 5-kilo packages. I'm nearing the end of this batch.)

Ingredients:
350gr water
500gr strong bread flour
12gr fresh yeast
10gr salt
(Some dried flower leaves)

Full recipe + video:
https://www.bakewithjack.co.uk/blog-1/2021/2/01/easy-baguettes

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Probably the prettiest sourdough bread I ever baked. It's for giving away, so I won't be able to check the crumb but it looks all right, and it had a proper oven rise, which is a sign of a happy dough.

I baked it, as usual, in my oven bread pan; 20 minutes with the lid on (and an ice-cube thrown in for steaming purposes) and 25 minutes without the lid.

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Today I baked a 'pain de campagne' and I decided to make a soup to go with that; a riff on the traditional French onion soup.

Bread ingredients:
400gr strong bread flour
100gr rye flour
10gr salt
20gr fresh yeast
50gr butter*
Chopped leaves of a large bunch of fresh oregano (though I used sage, from the freezer)

*A #PaulHollywood recipe; he uses a lot of butter in his breads. This is a nice bread but I prefer the #RichardBertinet version.

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A fairly busy day in the kitchen:

- The second day of sourdough bread baking, so a lot of waiting and a little bit of work
- I soaked and then wrung out dried chillies, that will become a fermented hot sauce
- I made salted caramel; a present for friends here.

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A loooong day - but it's done now, and I'm in bed, reading, while the cat is hammocking.

Much, much earlier in the day, I baked another sourdough bread; a bit of an experiment, since I'd added all kinds of spices to the dough.

The oven rise was near perfect, and the crumb was very nice too, though more compact than usual, thanks to those spices, I'm sure.

It tasted really well - especially with the basil pesto I had made last week.

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More fun with focaccias; a no-knead recipe by Jack Sturgess*: https://www.bakewithjack.co.uk/blog-1/2022/5/19/no-knead-focaccia
I baked mine a few minutes longer, because I like them slightly darker than standard but if you follow the recipe they will end up with a light bronze hue.

*JS is not to blame for my slightly over the top toppings though. (Description of toppings in alt text.)

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Another day, another Richard Bertinet recipe, for a prune & cardamom bread.
Again, I used my new oven bread pan, to see how that would go. It was a tight fit but all went well.

Pro tip (learned from Monsieur Bertinet):
If you bake on a regular basis, always have a big jar with rum and dried fruit in it on a shelf. Just top it up regularly and you will never again have these irritating delays when a recipe asks for pre-soaked fruit.

(Recipe in the comments.)

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I baked a bread earlier today* and it's gorgeous; I'd forgotten to mention it in my last post but I'd added dried red pepper corns to the dough, which combined really well with the honey & lavender I'd also added.

I also made a basil 'pesto' this morning; no specific recipe: I blitzed basil leaves, olive oil, sunflower seeds, old cheese, dried red peppers and salt.
It went really well with the bread.

Tastebud Heaven.

*https://mstdn.social/@Jantar/110044501716582113

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More bread baking, and this is one of my all-time favourites: Richard Bertinet's lavender & honey wholemeal bread - but this time I baked it in my new oven bread pan, and that made a real difference. This bread has never looked so good.
I baked it 15 minutes with the lid on, and then 20 without.

Ingredients & instructions in the comment section.

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Focaccia day, and I decided to make four small ones instead of one big slab:

- two with fresh rosemary & thyme, microplaned garlic, dried red peppers and salt, with more olive oil sprinkled over the breads after they came out of the oven
- two with various dried fruits & lemon peel, and honey poured over it straight after the breads were done.

I have already given one pair away - and tasted the other two; very nice indeed.

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It's been a few days but here we are again. I still have enough bread in the freezer but I just wanted to bake some more. I find everything about the process very pleasing.

So, here are four more no-knead baguettes, from a Jack Sturgess recipe: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/586347ea37c581f15db91d34/t/60214d6818b3a831177de582/1612795240880/Recipe_+No-Knead+Baguettes.pdf

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Most of these are for the freezer but I am happy to admit that I made them today, because I almost got up with the thought, 'I would love a cheese stick right now.'
So, I will have two or three or four of them before I will bag & freeze the rest of today's harvest.

Ingredients:
165gr water
6gr fresh yeast
250gr strong bread flour
4gr salt
150(!)gr grated cheese
A light dusting of tandoori powder

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A Richard Bertinet recipe and one of my favourite breads:
300gr wholemeal flour
200gr strong bread flour
350gr water
10gr fresh yeast
30gr honey
1 tsp lavender.

I'm always tempted to make 2 breads, because the dough is quite soft and it would make the final stages (moving the dough onto a peel & scoring the bread) easier but I love the sprawling mess of the one big bread too much. Smaller breads would be neater but the big ones look more festive (& taste great.)
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A not totally unhappy cat - and yes, I forgot to wear an apron while doing bread stuff*, again.......

*Well worth the flour-y dandruff though, if you missed the earlier post.

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Two days ago I tried out another Richard Bertinet recipe* and though the bread tasted wonderful, I wasn't 100% happy with the (resting & oven) rise.
I had another go today. I'd mixed the other batch in the machine and the finished dough had been a bit too weak, so today I did everything by hand and that did lead to a firmer mix.
I also used larger tins now, since I'm going to give away two.

*A rye bread with fruit (and a bit of caraway seeds & ground coffee).
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