Weekend Bakery
Weekend Bakery wants to offer and share information, tips, techniques, recipes and tools for the ‘professional’ home baker, with an above average interest in the art of artisan bread making. Weekend Bakery points to the fact that a lot of people, like us, concentrate their baking activities around the weekends and holidays. The moments you look forward to, thinking about what recipes to try or which favorite loaves to bake.
Weekend Bakery is serious about artisan bread making. Making bread in small quantities with time and attention will deliver great and rewarding results. So why not try and make your own too? It’s a hobby with great benefits for your mind as well as your body. Making good bread appeals to all your senses. Working with dough can be your own form of meditation. Your body can seriously benefit from the bread you make.
There are lot’s of good reasons to make your own. Maybe you’ve already discovered them. So if you are serious about good bread making, Weekend Bakery is the place for you. Get your hands stuck in a piece of dough and smell the aroma of your own sourdough starter.
Our Artisan At Home Bakery
We are passionate home bakers. We have been sharing our quest for good food and especially good bread for over 20 years. We love sharing our homemade bread and recipes with friends and family and everybody who’s truly interested. We are especially enthusiastic about the ‘artisan’ way of baking. Traditional methods, few ingredients, lots of taste. It’s amazing and rewarding to discover you can make a wonderful bread with just flour, water and salt and a bit of homemade sourdough.
Our Weekend Bakery Tool Shop
We are proud to offer a range of bread baking tools that are perfect for the home baker and small bakeries. All bread baking tools are made within the European Union and of high quality. And there’s some very original sweet baking stuff too. Come and take a look and get inspired to bake!
Things we love to bake and make
There are some bakes that we have really ‘made our own’ over the years. Next to our “Pain Rustique’ and Pain au Levain’ that has an ever growing enthusiastic following, we have perfected the art of croissant making and baguette baking. We also make traditional Dutch specialties like suikerbrood (sugar loaf), speculaas, cinnamon buns and roggebrood (rye bread). We love making our own pizza and flatbreads. We also make our own marmalade from the Sevilla oranges when in season, quince jelly from the quinces in our garden. We like to experiment with chocolate and caramel too.
Besides the baking
We love to travel when possible. Our favorite destinations are Italy, France, Norway and Canada. Favorite cities: New York, Venice, Amsterdam, Maastricht, Bologna…
Also fond of (outdoor) cooking, the Italian kitchen, Indian and Japanese food, brewing the best coffee and much more…
Happy baking from Weekend Bakery!
Ed & Marieke
Netherlands
Riek says
Goedemorgen, Weekend Bakkers
Ik heb al een paar keer jullie recept bekeken en ook uitgeprobeerd, ik mis in jullie omschrijving bij het recept , “Ons favoriete zuurdesembrood mer tarwe volkoren” toch echt de bulkrijs ook in her andere recept pain naturel wordt ook niets vermeld. Is dit een over het hoofd gezien ?? Ik heb nu een paar keer gehad dat het een dril deeg wordt na het opbollen.
Ik hoor het graag van jullie.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Riek
Weekend Bakers says
Beste Riek,
We hebben het nog even nagelopen en het recept klopt helemaal.
Dit is het tijdschema:
Volkoren Zuurdesembrood Tijdschema
Dag 1 -21:00 Maak het voordeeg en laat 12 uur ontwikkelen
Dag 2 -09:00 Begin met het maken van het uiteindelijke deeg
09:00 – Voordeeg + alle andere ingredienten en 6 minuten kneden
09:10 – 50 minuten rust
10:00 – Eerste stretch & fold
50 minuten rust
10:50 – Tweede stretch & fold
50 minuten rust
11:40 – Vorm tot een bol of ovaal brood
Eindrijs 2 uur en 15 minuten
13:55 – bak 48 minutes op 230ºC
14:43 – Het brood is klaar
Heb je ervaring met het oprekken en vouwen van het deeg (Stretch & Fold).
Zie ook onze video: www.weekendbakery.com/posts…ld-method/
Er zijn drie periodes van 50 minuten rust en samen met deze techniek ontwikkel je het deeg. We maken dit recept al sinds 2012, dus we denken dat de oorzaak van je ‘drillerige’ deeg ergens anders moet liggen.
Zorg ervoor dat je de S&F goed uitvoert en ook dat je de juiste broodbloem en meel gebruikt met voldoende proteïne / eiwitgehalte (tussen 12 en 13%) om een sterk deeg op te bouwen. Mocht je het wat te vochtig vinden om mee te werken, dan kun je ook een paar procent minder water toevoegen en eens kijken hoe dat gaat.
Succes ermee en een heel fijne kerst gewenst!
Ed & Marieke
Nicolien says
Hi,
I am making the recipe ‘Ons Favoriete Zuurdesembrood met Tarwe Volkoren;’ often
but I am wondering which knead technique I should use if I knead the dough on day 2 before the stretch and fold fase?
Thanks a lot for any info!
Nicolien
Weekend Bakers says
Hello Nicolien,
We assume you saw these instructions with the recipe:
Making the loaf
Put the poolish starter, flour and salt in the mixing bowl of your standing mixer and add 2/3 of the water. Now start mixing and gradually add the rest of the water and let the dough come together. Knead for 6 minutes, leave it in your mixing bowl, cover with clingfilm and rest for 50 minutes. The dough should feel a bit wet and even a little bit sloppy or tacky, there should be moderate gluten development.
So either you use a standing mixer for 6 minutes or you knead by hand for 12 to 15 minutes. After the initial 50 minutes rest you proceed with the stretch and fold without any further kneading.
Let us know if you still have any questions about this!
Marieke
Nicolien says
Hi Marieke,
Thanks for your reply! I saw the instructions. And I knead by hand, but I was wondering which technique I should use ? Because on the internet I see a lot of different kneading techniques and I thought it also matters if you stretch and fold afterwards? But maybe I am overthinking it now 🙂
Thanks again!
Nicolien
Weekend Bakers says
Hi again Nicolien,
Do you know the French method (made famous by Richard Bertinet) also referred to as the ‘slap and fold’?
It involves picking up the dough on one end with both hands, then lifting it up and letting it hang a bit as you gently slap it on the table in front of you. You then fold it over and pick it up again, from the same side you first lifted it.
When you get the hang of it it can work really well for wetter dough.
For more tips and techniques also take a look at this:
www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/…gh-by-hand
Also keep in mind for the kneading part of our sourdough bread recipe you only need moderate gluten development. So the rest of the development is done by S&F and especially by the longer periods of rest between the S&F.
Hope you will find something useful for you to try with your next bake.
Seasons Greetings,
Marieke
Nicolien says
Hi Marieke,
Dank voor je antwoord. Ik zie nu dat jullie ook gewoon in het Nederlands antwoorden 🙂
Fijne feestdagen gewenst,
Nicolien
Weekend Bakers says
Hi Nicolien,
Ja Engels is een beetje de ‘voertaal’ op onze site, vanwege bakkers uit allerlei landen. Dat is jaren geleden zo ontstaan omdat met name het broodbakken in Nederland nog niet zo een vlucht had genomen.
Dus we zijn een beetje ‘tweetalig’ 🙂
Fijne feestdagen en ook in het Nieuwe Jaar heel veel bakplezier!
Shivam Kapoor says
Thank you for educating me on the veg danish preparations. Amazing content.
Weekend Bakers says
Thank you Shivam 🙂
It is a versatile recipe and you can easily make your own favorite version with the vegetables (of the season) and different cheeses or tofu and herbs and spices you like.
Enjoy your baking
Steve Reilly says
I’ve just found your website and it is brilliant; just what I needed… Thank you so much for sharing your skills and expertise! 😊
Weekend Bakers says
Hello Steve,
Thank you for letting us know. Wishing you lots of happy moments baking and experimenting.
Greetings from Holland,
Marieke
James says
In your table you convert instant yeast to fresh yeast 1:3. I’ve never seen anything but 1:2. Wondering…
Weekend Bakers says
Hello James,
We have never known or done anything else (tweaking individual recipes for certain reasons excluded) than the 1:3 ratio. Books we have, including the great Hamelman in his book ‘Bread’, also use this conversion, as do other sources like King Arthur flour in the US and Doves farm in the UK and many other sources and conversion sites.
Can you tell us, what your sources and reasons are to stick to the 1:2 ratio? We are curious to know where it comes from.