Baking Good

I haven't blogged much about my 'adventures' in sourdough recently, but have continued to bake regularly, mostly pitta bread, but other bits and pieces too - and with the acquisition of some 'pullman' bread pans, this is my latest effort:

In the first photo I baked one with the lid on (you can see the ridges from the lid at the front - this is also what produced the squarer of the two loaves) and one with the lid off.  

Anyway, two nice soft sandwich loaves - pleased with that!

Sourdough Success

Yet Further Adventures in Sourdough have seen the production of a very nice batch of soft tearing rolls

And - finally - our first successful loaf:

When it came to baking, the dough was still far too 'splodgy' (technical term!) to hold its shape.  But it went into a hot cast iron pot (often referred to as a Dutch Oven) and, very much to my surprise, emerged as a beautiful domed loaf.

Very tasty too - and as you can see the 'crumb' (an actual technical term) is pretty good.  

Pleased with that - just hope I can replicate it!

Further Adventures in Sourdough

One month on, and our sourdough experiments continue - still haven't made an entirely successful loaf, but the crumpets (made with discard) came out pretty well.

And the pitta breads really are something of a success story . . .

Adventures in Sourdough

Earlier this month (having finally got our hands on some bread flour) we decided to give sourdough a go. By day 3, the starter was bubbling nicely . . .

. . .  and we were soon on to the baking stage.  Here's the dough:

And the final product . . .  it did come out a bit of a funny shape, with big air holes inside, but tasted nice enough!

Apparently there are other things you can do with the starter as well - as a first attempt we tried sourdough cheese scones - not bad if I do say so myself.  Watch this space for more!

Baking Bread

Having been gifted some traditionally ground wholemeal flour from Houghton Mill, and home from work on a wet Monday afternoon, decided to have a go at baking soda bread.

Very easy to make - and it turned out really well - a nice accompaniment to a bowl of soup!