September 29, 2011

Sour Cream White Bread

Normally I have a picture of a whole loaf to share with you, but within 2 hours of making this bread it is as you see it, 2/3rds eaten.

September 15, 2011

Hamelman's Pullman Bread (Pain De Mie)


I don't actually own a Pullman Loaf pan (way too expensive for something I'll rarely create), so they were made into two smaller loaves using the King Arthur low gluten bread pans I received as a gift. 

September 8, 2011

Hungarian White Bread

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." ~ John Lennon

August 14, 2011

Fresh Yeast Chocolate Chocolate Chip Espresso Egg Bread


I'm trying to work my way through all the fresh yeast I bought, so I'm converting recipes with dry yeast into fresh yeast loaves.

August 11, 2011

BBC Radio Food Programme Podcast: Yeast

I'm a big fan of BBC Podcasts. This came down my podcast subscription last week, it's very interesting!

From the BBC website:

Yeasts, mysterious members of the fungi kingdom, are an essential part of our food production. They play a critical role in baking, brewing, wine-making and much more.
Dr Bill Simpson is the Managing Director of a company in Leatherhead that has hundreds of samples of yeasts, old and new, frozen in liquid nitrogen. By preserving different yeasts from around the world his team are able to recreate ales and lagers from the past.
Vincent Talleu stumbled upon baking by chance but is now consumed by a passion for good, tasty, healthy bread. Working with a twenty-year-old Swedish yeast 'starter' in an artisan bakery in London, he believes that 'real bread' must be made as it used to be; slowly. This allows the yeast to work its magic.
Andrew Whitley is a food educator who started the Village Bakery with a yeast sample he brought back to the UK from Russia. For Andrew, there is absolutely no reason why natural yeasts cannot be used much more widely in bread-making, so that loaves with no synthetic additives and longer production times can be available to all.
John Downes pioneered the Australian sourdough revolution in the seventies, and is now working daily with yeasts, recreating the indigenous loaf of the British Isles: ale-barm bread.
Producer: Rich Ward.

Jamie Oliver's Fresh Yeast Semolina White Bread

The best looking loaf of the two
I have been looking for fresh yeast for a few months now, never being able to find it in any of the stores I frequent. Then, in the space of one week I find two locations that have it! I'm rolling in fresh yeast!