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’ , did not pay us a visit on his birthday yesterday. So I turned out […] [Read More...]
Bread
The Amsterdam Artisan Bread Test
See below for version in Dutch Visiting artisan bread shops in the center of Amsterdam and comparing bread Last Friday we finally got around to doing our little ‘Amsterdam bakery tour’. We decided to only test bread, or else we would let ourselves be sidetracked by all the other baked goods on offer (but we […] [Read More...]
San Francisco Sourdough Bread
Last week we tried out the San Francisco Sour Dough recipe from Peter Reinhart’s latest book ‘Artisan breads every day’. We used our home made local Amsterdam rye sourdough culture because we believe our bread thrives on it (rather then buying and shipping a sourdough culture from halfway across the globe that maybe would not […] [Read More...]
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 big stones is transmitted directly through the bottom of the dough turning it into bread. […] [Read More...]
Artisan bread baking tips : Dough
Looking back, we could have used some of these tips ourselves, when we started our baking adventures! After we started baking artisan breads we discovered some bread baking fundamentals that could be helpful to other baking enthusiasts. Useful bread baking tips: Dough For large irregular holes, use wet dough (65-67% water to flour) and do […] [Read More...]
Bread, Figs and Roses
What a joy, when a like minded food lover not only brings her enthusiastic personality but also the most fragrant and freshest cheese, figs, herbs and roses to your door! We could offer some raspberry chocolate tart in return (recipe by Mr. Roux) home roasted coffee and of course a live demonstration of our Rofco […] [Read More...]
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 excellent book Bread). With the second batch we made two loaves of sourdough using a […] [Read More...]
Our brand new bread oven!
We waited long, but it was worth it. Finally our bread oven has arrived from Belgium. Brought by the Rofco Company owner Micha himself, it came with elaborate and enthusiastic instructions. That was last Friday. And we haven’t stopped baking since! The first two breads that came out of the oven were, in our eyes, […] [Read More...]
You Guessed It…More Bread
As new buns and cakes are in the making, we wanted to show you a few baking exercises we worked on yesterday. Great result with making a whole wheat loaf, which tasted so much better then the average blugghhh tasting factory bread with elastic ‘crust’. Also made scones and this eventful Saturday ended with pizza, […] [Read More...]
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 hope to improve the crustiness of the bread crust and achieve a more open, creamy […] [Read More...]
