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New Bread

It’s time for a new bread, a new way of doing things.  I’ve long resisted switching to folding dough instead of kneading because…why exactly?  Maybe I thought kneading was a necessary primal step in creating bread, something to do with

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Wheat Bread Revelation

Sometimes it just hits you.  And by ‘it’ I mean that brick a mason just nudged off a ledge with his boot forty feet above you.  Other times, inspiration hits you.  For me, inspiration comes from applying things I already

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Beware Unlabeled Flour

Before the Holidaze, I was running low on flour.  Not good considering the amount of baking I planned to do.  In the last week before Christmas, all local stores were out of bread flour of any type, and I didn’t

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Ground

The new organic whole wheat flour arrived in the mail yesterday!  Four five-pound bags, packed in crumpled pages of agricultural newspapers—ads for harvesters and large arm-removing equipment.  It arrived just in time, as I’m making three multigrain struans and one

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Bayk-Mor

I’m looking over the flour brand list from the bakery supply place I visited last week.  I started out trying to confirm whether the “Big Yield” flour I bought is unbleached, as it is indicated on my invoice.  I may

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Major Leagues

IMG_0043 Now I've got to make a lot of bread–I just bought 100 pounds of flour.  I found a bakery supply way out in the countryside.  It was in serious boulders, sagebrush, and corral country and the sign only indicated

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