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Frequent Questions about Bread Baking
It’s been some month ago when a reader suggested to build a “help” page where I could bundle and answer the most frequent questions. That was a great idea and I can use this page as roadmap to one...
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How to form a easter bunny (Variation 2)
There are many variations on how to form an Easter bunny. This is a more human shape with or without an Easter egg in its arms – similar to my Weckmann. How to form an Easter Bunny – Version 2 Roll a...
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Wheat Rye Bread No 2
Three Month ago I baked a bread decorated with a rose for Bread Baking Day. My Mum was very much in love with the decoration and asked me if I could bake such a bread for her birthday breakfast with...
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Farmers Bread for Beginners
How to start baking bread? I remember that I started with searching for a recipe and just simple following the instruction. I can’t tell you anymore which recipe it was (it was before I started...
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Flour
Flour is essential for baking bread. But if you start to compare international flours you will fast realize that the flour types in one country are not easily to translate into flour types of another...
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How to dry and reactivate your sweet starter
Having a active sourdough like the sweet starter is a good thing. But there is always the risk of loosing. It could starve while you are on a longer vacation or because you have no time for bread...
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Baking for Beginners III: Rolls
To me, the basic of good breakfast is a good roll. And so we are baking rolls in part three of our little bread baking course. These rolls are looking more complicated then they. For shaping we will...
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Bread baking for Beginners XII: Rising a sourdough
The oldest method to rise a bread is using sourdough. As soon as water is mixed with flour, yeasts and lacto bacteria which can be found in the flour starts to proliferate. Soon the first bubbles can...
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Bread baking for Beginners XIII: Caring for a sourdough
Now we feeded our new sourdough for for four or five days and it is happy bubbeling. But how to proceed now? Here is an overview on how to care for a sourdough: Sourdough feeding Rising yeast How to...
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Krümmelsauer / Gerstl
Some days ago I had to sent some sourdough per mail. That is easy when the sourdough is mixed with a lot of flour to form dry crumbs – the German name for this is “Krümmelsauer” while it is called...
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