Cann Mill Organic Flour -time to top up
Cann Mill with the large mill pond in the foreground The water wheel provides all the power Enough to cover the Christmas period (and a bit more!) More about this special flour in an earlier blog …
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Thursday Bread – Stretched and turned, not kneeded!
Four types of bread with different ingredients for the family via the freezer. All of them developed using a no-kneed method. The loaves on the right more-or-less follow the process described by Chad Robertson using a sourdough starter with a loaf of 70% white flour, 20% wholemeal, and 10% rye. Look here if you’ve not …
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Saturday Bread
4 ‘Tartine’ style loaves, two tins with Stoates 100% organic wholemeal (foreground right), and two tempered with 15 % white plus 15% rye (back to right). Last month in Oslo I spent the nights on a mattress in my host’s library. The first of many temping volumes was Tartine Bread. The author Chad Robertson has …
Baker’s delight
Getting great flour is not so difficult in this Internet age, but getting flour at a reasonable price is not so easy. I recently spotted the story of a home baker scaling up – Birch Cottage Bread. An interesting subject for me as my Kenwood mixer bought specially for preparing dough had stopped working, and I …