A little clip demonstrating stretching and folding bread dough. The stretch and fold method helps to gently develop the gluten in your dough. It works very well with these higher hydration doughs. We like the technique very much because although you get to use your hands and feel the dough, it is… [Read More...]
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Swiss Twisted Bread – Wurzelbrot / Pain Tordu
We saw this Swiss bread being made by a German baker on UK TV. The ‘wurzel’ refers to the fact that the bread resembles winding tree roots. These loaves looked like a lot of fun and as it turned out quite … [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...]