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...]
