Update: Champa’s Round-up for Bread Baking Day #37: Breads with Sponge or Pre-Ferment, is ready. You’ll find a wonderful collection including a twist bread, pancakes, several versions of ryes and raisin breads, ciabatta, and so much more to tempt you! **************************** Behold Son of George, the rye sourdough starter — smaller, milder and studded with golden and dark raisins, but …
Category Archives: Breads
BMB: New York-style Light Rye Breads
My new year’s resolution to bake bread at home has continued apace (Bake More Bread: BMB). From Anadama to Oatmeal to fruity Banana Yeast, finally we get to the sourdoughs. These are New York style sourdough rye loaves. On the first day of the new year, I began a wild sourdough starter and attempted to …
BMB: Coriander-Spiked Banana Braid
Continuing my resolution to bake bread at home more often (BMB: Bake More Bread), today we’re back to a recipe we first tried 12 years before and know we love: a banana yeast bread from the1000 Classic Recipes cookbook. I had never tried a yeast bread flavored with bananas before then — I had always …
BMB (Bake More Bread): Oatmeal Loaf
One lucky side effect of my new year’s resolution to bake bread at home may be that it will also help me stay in better shape, too. That’s some workout — kneading dough by hand, or is that just that I’m in such BAD shape now that I’m getting winded by 15 minutes of hand …