Photos: late August

Plain white bread

Currant bread

I think I killed my sourdough starter.  It taught me that four hours is not that long to wait for bread.  I feel bad for mistreating it.  I'll probably go back to sourdough in the winter when it's darker and colder.

Photos: August

First foray back into baking recently was with these loaves of white bread.  Baked in the dutch oven but they were much lower moisture content than the no-knead breads, so the crusts are not as nice.

Golshan is back in town!  He's doing Golshan things, like riding bikes.  I made rye bread when he arrived, but forgot to take a photo.  Here's a photo of him instead.

This one was a simple white bread with about a tablespoon and a half of butter.  Other ingredients: 2 tsp yeast, 500g white flour, 325g water, 2.5 tsp kosher salt.  It rose fast because there was so much yeast, but had a really even crumb.  Nice sandwich bread, good with jam, and didn't need any butter on top.  A little too smooth and plain for my taste.

This oatmeal bread had a strong molasses bite.  I used some whole wheat flour and didn't use the powdered milk.  One day I'll buy some and be less baffled by recipes that call for it.