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Our version of a Pain Rustique

After baking a few hundred Pains Rustiques you could say the recipe for our version of this rustic bread has been tweaked to the max. You get the best of both worlds: the extra flavor of the sourdough and… [...]

More Bread Please…

Our micro bakery has limited capacity in more ways than one. Still not a week goes by or we are requested to make more bread. We then have to explain that yes, we have a bigger than normal bread oven, … [...]

Things We Baked This Weekend III

This Saturday finally proved to be a good day to get some fresh flour from the mill. It is a bit of a journey for us and the last few weeks the weather was not cooperating (snow, ice, cold). The type of weather I like, but also the one that makes you want to… [...]

Video: Baking Pain Rustique – The Movie

Enjoy the real life ‘oven spring’ of this ‘Pain Rustique’ bread filmed in our Rofco hearth bread oven (full HD)… [...]

Things We Baked over the Weekend

Again a weekend full of bread flavours and smells. The best thing to be done when all you get outside is rain, rain and more rain. In fact the weather was so bad that our Dutch Santa, the famous ‘Sinterklaas’ … [...]

Pain Rustique…practice makes perfect!

We are still baking like crazy with our Rofco bread oven. This little box works miracles for bread. The hot stones make the bread live, open up, and rise till the roof! All the heat which is stored in the … [...]

Pain Rustique & Our New Spiral Mixer

We survived the chicken pox, we got our new spiral mixer and started baking again! The first two batches where two loaves of Pain Rustique which is our favourite recipe for a white yeast bread (see Jeffrey Hamelman and his … [...]

Yes, even more Bread…

Still no sign of our new Rofco ‘semi professional’ baking oven. So while waiting for it, we might as well bake some more bread in our little normal household oven with a capacity of one bread at a time. We … [...]

More Bread

We are still baking bread. I have baked a white bread with a sort of nice slash pattern on the side of the bread and Ed has baked a 20 hour retarded (in the refrigerator) fermented bread with 20% whole … [...]