We're on holiday to the beautiful Lake District quite soon, so this was a freezer filling frenzy bake so we have good bread for a week.
Between some house jobs I did a monster double bread baking session. One mix of basic white sourdough, and one of rye bread.
A lot of effort in timings, equipment, and oven space.
Music: Today we chuckled along to the Lost Fingers, recommended by my good buddy Charlie. Also fired up some Fleetwood Mac, and 'Versus' by Kings of Convenience, remixes of their songs including Royksopp and Four Tet - epic.
Both doughs were started the night before. And each were knocked back 3 times at 1 hour intervals before the final shape and bake. I did some different shapes, and one in a loaf tin for some good sandwich bread.
Both were made using the same quantities and method. It's interesting that the Rye bread, which I was expecting to be denser and closer baked, does come in at about 2/3 the size of the white. It's by no means a stodge-fest, but shows the difference in the flour.
One loaf wouldn't fit in the little oven - this became the 7 Punch Survivor, and saved from the freezer (the poor little fella had been through enough) as our weekly loaf. Tasted good with my Mum's tomato soup, pretty well straight from the greenhouse.
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