Any Home Bakers Here?

[cavemanrich]

I used 300 g rye and 800g spelt, sourdough I don’t weigh, I put in about 2 teaspoons of rye sd and about 2 tablespoons of the italian ss and about 5 g yeast plus 640 g water
Today I will use an extra 300 g of oats and also 300 g of boiling water , let sit till it cools off

It has been in my mind to ask you what makes your great bread soo dark. It is almost close to pumpernickel bread color.
Have you posted recipes for your bread here before??

In my baking of the bread, My rye flour was not wholegrain. and My wheat bread flower is not same as spelt.
I have never used spelt,, so not familiar how it looks, and resulting bread looks.

Only reason I weighed my sourdough,, was to get the 1000 grams of liquid total for my 1000 grams of flour total.

When I'm doing a Maiden voyage on a new recipe, I try to measure correctly. Once I have it wired ,,,,I go by the way my dough looks when my mixer is kneading its final round.

BTW,, wired= figured out

 

[MotherofOrpies]

My Italian sd needs a teaspoon of honey , and a tablespoon of olive oil and I use bread spice ,it is a mixture of fennel, anise and caraway seeds, spelt is softer than wheat but has a lot of gluten, the dough is more “wet”

 

[ronott1]

My Italian sd needs a teaspoon of honey , and a tablespoon of olive oil and I use bread spice ,it is a mixture of fennel, anise and caraway seeds, spelt is softer than wheat but has a lot of gluten, the dough is more “wet”

For bread like that, I add a couple of tablespoons of Gluten powder.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

Really, why ? Spelt has a lot more gluten than regular wheat …

 

[ronott1]

Really, why ? Spelt has a lot more gluten than regular wheat …

The rye has low gluten so when I have a lot of low gluten grain, seeds and etc, I add gluten.

 

[ronott1]

Spelt has lower gluten than wheat by quite a bit. There is more protein though.

 

[jnicholes]

My cheesemaking experiment finally succeeded.

On the left is mozzarella cheese made from curds, on the right is Mysost cheese made from whey.

Now I know what to do with cheese whey, just make more cheese with it!

 

[Sally PB]

Nice, Jared!

 

[RebelFord81]

No baking but canned my hind end off lol chicken stock, cranberry juice and sourdough bread crumbs

 

[MotherofOrpies]

I had something weird happen to my dough yesterday, made a regular sd dough for 2 breads, separated it in 2 bowls as usual to let it rise overnight, the next morning, one was ok, the other one hadn’t risen at all so, baked the one that was ok, took the other one in the kitchen to rise, after 8 hrs, still NOTHING I added some yeast and baked it, but… did something like that ever happen to anyone of you