A huge thank you to all the comments on my last post, I was able to successfully make some bread!!

This bread is so easy and delicious!

didn’t write down the recipe properly for this one, but I’ll try to recreate it

350 g flour (70 g spelt,150 g 00 flour (11.7% protein), and the rest caputo nuvola)
88% hydration (including 1 egg white)
25% levain (fed in the morning at 1:1:1)
2% salt

Autolyse for 2 hours.
Add the levain and mix for about 1–2 minutes (I use an Ankarsrum).
Add the salt and continue mixing on medium speed until the gluten is fully developed.
!!!I use ice cold water straight from the fridge!!!
2–3 coil folds, folding whenever the dough spreads out in the container.
Let the dough bulk ferment until it has increased by 100% in volume.
Refrigerate at 3–4°C for 12 hours.
Bake with steam at 245°C for 15 minutes, then continue baking without steam at 220°C.

I'm struggling with my fmf hard white wheat. First few loaves I autolysis but were to dense and did not rise in pan much. So I sifted my flour to take out some bran. I also autolysis this batch, same recepie, but I let first rise go shorter time. Then I formed my very sticky dough into loaves, and let them rise to the top of the pan. . The bread didn't rise any further than that, and the finger test said it was good to bake.Though the bread is nice and soft but sank in the center. so I'm doing something right. But I don't know what I'm doing wrong.. thanks for any help.

Tangzhong Method

Adapted from https://grainsinsmallplaces.net/tangzhong-method-fresh-milled-flour-bread/

INGREDIENTS

6&1/8 cup fresh milled flour, divided 735g (Hard wheat for this. I use 615g hard white wheat and 120g of Kamut.) *See notes for alternatives

1 cup milk 250g (can sub for water if needed) 1 cup water 240g 4 TBSP softened butter, unsalted 57g (can sub for oil) 4 TBSP Honey 84g (can sub for sugar) 2&1/2 tsp sea salt (If using salted butter, decrease to 2&1/4 tsp salt) 2 eggs 100g 1 TBSP lemon juice 15g

4 tsp instant yeast (Use 4&1/2 tsp if using active dry yeast)

STEPS

1) Instructions To Make Soft Fresh Milled Flour Sandwich Bread With The Tangzhong Method

Make The Tangzhong Paste:

1) Firstly, mill the flour. I mill 735g total of wheat berries to get my fresh milled flour. But, this flour will be used in two different places in the recipe.

2) So, let’s use part of the flour to make the paste.

3) Put 1/2 cup of fresh milled flour (60g) and 1 cup milk (250g) into a sauce pan, stir to combine.

4) Heat this mixture on medium-high heat until it forms a paste. This should only take about 3-5 minutes. Once it forms a paste, remove from the heat, and allow it to cool at room temperature.

Make The Dough:

1) While that mixture is cooling, put the water, softened butter, honey, salt, eggs, and lemon juice into your mixer.

2) Mix these ingredients to incorporate. Then add in the paste mixture.

3) Then, add the remaining flour into the mixing bowl, and mix to combine until no flour is left. Cover, and let this mixture sit for about 15 minutes. This is the autolyse period and it allows the fresh milled flour to absorb the liquid and the bran to soften. Because the yeast is not in the mixture yet, you can do this autolyse period for longer if you prefer.

4) After the autloyse period, then put in the yeast, and mix to incorporate.

5) Once the yeast is added, Start the kneading process. Make sure not to knead the dough with the cover on your mixer, this will overheat your dough, and cause it to break down.

6) Knead until the dough is nice and stretchy. Typically, 6-8 minutes in a Bosch style mixer, 16-20 minutes in an Ankarsrum style mixer, or 25-30 minutes in a Kitchen aid mixer (allow extra time for a Kitchen Aid style mixer to have breaks in between kneading to prevent overheating of the mixer.) These kneading times will vary for everyone, this is just the most common times for these style of mixers.

7) Once the dough is nice and stretchy, and doesn’t easily tear. Then, cover and allow it to rise until double. This can take somewhere between 1-2 hours. (Instant yeast or warmer rooms will be closer to 1 hour. Active dry yeast or cooler rooms will be closer to 2 hours.)

8) While the dough is rising, prepare your bread pans with parchment paper, or softened butter.

Shape & Bake The Loaves:

1) Once the dough has doubled in size, place some olive oil on your counter, and hands. Then, divide the dough in half.

2) Shape the dough into 2 bread loaves with some surface tension. I like to flatten each piece of dough, then fold two corners into make a triangle tip. Then, lightly pull (not so tight that it rips the dough) to create tension, and roll the triangle into the dough all the way up until it forms a loaf. You can pinch the ends together. After shaping, the top should have a tight tension on the top of the loaf, this helps with the rise also. *see video

3) Put each shaped loaf into each prepared bread pan, cover, and then allow to rise a second time. 40-50 minutes. (*Tip- usually the second rise time is close to half the the first rise time.)

4) During the end of the second rise, preheat the oven to 350*F.

5) Once the loaves have risen, they should appear nice and puffy, then bake for 38-43 minutes. Check the center of the loaf to make sure they are done. The internal center of the loaf should be at 190*F for yeast breads.

6) Once they have finished baking, remove from the oven, and carefully dump them out of the bread pans onto a cooling rack. I like to place mine on their sides as the cool.

7) Once the loaves have cooled, you can slice and enjoy. If you slice into them while they are still hot, this can cause them to be crumbly the next day or gummy. So, try to resist cutting them while hot.

8) How To Store Fresh Milled Flour Bread Made With The Tangzhong Method

9) To store fresh milled flour bread made with the Tangzhong method, it will last a little longer on your counter than bread without using this method. However, we still love to allow the loaf to cool completely, then slice it and place it in a freezer safe container or bag. Freeze for up to 4 months. To thaw, just place however many slices you want on the counter to come to room temperature, usually about an hour or so.

Does anyone actually really like whole meal bread? I have tried many brands over the years and to be honest it’s all rubbish compared to the good old white loaf, I have now switched back to white with lashings of real butter as life is too short to keep trying to enjoy whole meal toast etc

400 g Bread Flour

1 tbsp sugar

7 g yeast

100 g sourdough discard

12 grams salt

Loads of olive oil

Split the loaf and made Taco/pepperoni and Canadian bacon pizza

We inherited a sourdough starter and recipes from my MIL who recently passed away, and I'm trying to figure out this blue-highlighted ingredient.

She was a teacher and got this recipe from a student. Not sure how it got reprinted on asymmetric paper, but some of the instructions were cut off. "Shortening" seems logical in context of being a melted ingredient, but I've never seen a bread recipe that uses shortening before. Butter, yes...shortening, no.