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The Overnight Ferment Method
Week Twenty-Six: Same Dough, Different Method Today’s method variation involves a long, slow, cold ferment of the dough. Maybe you think that sounds like we’re doing something ugly to the dough, turning it into dough sauerkraut, or something; but the … Continue reading
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The Autolyse Method
Week Twenty-Six: Same Dough, Different Method Yesterday, I introduced this week’s variations with the most basic method of bread making: the straight dough method. Today, I’m going to discuss the easiest, fastest way to improve the flavor of any bread, … Continue reading
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The Straight Dough Method
Week Twenty-Six: Same Dough, Different Method Okay, I’ll admit it. Not like it was such a secret, but I am such a kitchen dork, you guys! I could list examples to prove my point, but I’m sure it’s a … Continue reading
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Champagne Bread
Week Twenty-Five: Beer Bread Week! For my final beer bread variation this week, I wanted to test a hypothesis. As you may have read yesterday, I determined that the main thing that makes beer bread so magically delicious is the … Continue reading
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Yeasted Beer Bread
Week Twenty-Five: Beer Bread Week! For today’s variation, I wanted to experiment with the leavening in beer bread. I know, I know, half the charm of classic beer bread is its speed – delicious bread can be yours in less than 1 … Continue reading
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Sourdough Beer Bread
Week Twenty-Five: Beer Bread Week! After tinkering with flavorings and non-alcoholic liquids, the next beer bread variation I wanted to try was to add some sourdough starter. I used this recipe for the starter; but sadly, I finally had to lay that … Continue reading
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Chocolate Stout Beer Bread
Week Twenty-Five: Beer Bread Week! For today’s beer bread variation, I decided to play around with flavorings more than type of ingredient. I knew I wanted to try using a dark beer, like a stout, but I also wanted to … Continue reading
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Whole Wheat Beer Bread
Week Twenty-Five: Beer Bread Week! Having determined yesterday that beer is a crucial ingredient in beer bread (for as-yet undetermined reasons), I decided to keep that ingredient unchanged (PBR ftw!), and instead mess around with the dry ingredients today. I’m … Continue reading
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Root Beer Bread
Week Twenty-Five: Beer Bread Week! Welcome to Beer Bread Week! When I made beer bread back in April, I ended up with several questions in my mind, mostly regarding the role of beer in the baking process, but also regarding … Continue reading
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Onion Dill Bread
Week Twenty-Four: Breads With Vegetables To finish this week out, I wanted to make an onion bread. But this bread isn’t actually very onion-y. I might have called it “Dill Onion Bread” instead; except that it’s not particularly dill-y either. … Continue reading
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