I recommend baking in a Dutch oven for every home baker desiring to bake hard crusted breads. It is just the easiest way to add steam to the bake, and you really don't add anything as a Dutch oven with a lid captures the natural moisture coming off the dough.

Moisture in the oven during the beginning part of baking allows your bread to rise fully, deepens the crust color, and finally, adds a level of shininess to the exterior.

Links to where I purchased my Dutch oven.

Amazon.com:EDGING CASTING Enameled Cast Iron Dutch Oven Pot With Lid, Dutch Oven forSourdough Bread Baking Round Pot Dule Handle, 6 Quart, Blue: Home & Kitchen

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DRIES

4 cups white pastry or all-purpose flour

1/3 cup of sugar

1 Tablespoon and 1 tsp of baking powder

1 ½ teaspoon of salt

Mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in large mixing bowl. Set aside.

½ cup cold Butter

Cube cold butter and cut into flour mixture with fingertips until it resembles coarse cornmeal in texture or pea sized crumbles. If adding nuts, raisins, chips, or cranberries do so now, after the butter has been mixed in. NOT FROZEN BERRIES.

WETS

5 Eggs

¾ cup of heavy cream, you can use half and half or regular milk but the scones won’t be as rich.

Mix cream and eggs in large pitcher. If adding flavorings such as vanilla do so now. Pour cream mixture into dries and mix until lightly combined. Add berries (if using). Use hands to finish mixing the dough until combined. Dough should be stiff, like biscuit dough. Scoop onto baking sheet. Bake for 22 – 26 minutes.

Suggestions:

1. Cinnamon peach: 1 1/2 cups peaches (very well drained), 1 ½ tsp cinnamon

2. Vanilla raisin: Add to eggs real vanilla extract 2 Tablespoons, 1 1/2 cups raisins.

3. Blackberry: 1 1/2 cups fruit

4. Cranberry Orange White Chocolate: 1 cup dried cranberries, 1 cup white chocolate, 1/2 cup orange juice (substitute for 1/2 cup cream). Optional: 1/2 cup pecans.

5. White chocolate pecan 1 cups chips, 1 cup nuts.

WATER = warm 2 C- may end up being more depending uponsourdough starter thickness.

DARK or whole RYE FLOUR       2  ½ C

WHOLE GRAIN wheat flour    2 C

SOURDOUGH STARTER 1C

Molasses     ¼Cs YEAST            1Tablespoon dry yeast or 1 packet

Mix, thick sponge, let sit for 1.5 hours

Add WHITE BREAD FLOUR 2C with the salt below incorporated into it.

SALT              1 T

Knead for 8-10 minutes adjusting by adding in more whiteflour or water if needed, thicker denser dough than traditional breads but itshould hold shape, and start out very sticky and then the water will get absorbed.  The whole grains take longerfor the water to absorb and rye is stickier than wheat.  So, it should be messy at first.  

After you get a good dough, then add seeds.   We use caraway and sunflower seeds.

CARAWAY SEEDS 1T

SUNFLOWER SEEDS       1/2C, 1T for the top. 

If you want a black bread then youcan add 2T of carmel color to the water.  It doesn’t add any flavor, just plenty of blackness.  

Divide in two, and shape like a football, seam side down.Egg wash and add your seeds to the top.

Let rest about 1/2 hour, then score down the middle and bake in a 400 degree oven for 25-30 minutes.

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Chocolate Babka. Easy to make, use Challah dough, fill, cut twist, top, bake and deliciousness awaits.

Challah recipe:

(two medium sized loaves)

2 1/2 cups of warm water (approximately 100 degrees)

2 packages or one and 3/4 Tablespoons of active dry yeast

6 cups of unbleached flour (approximately 1 1/2 pounds)

1 1/2 cups of whole-wheat flour

1/2 cup of butter that is very soft but not melted

1/2 cup of sugar

1 1/2 Tablespoons of salt

2 large eggs at room temperature

Filling:

SALT-pinch

CHOCOLATE SYRUP-1/2 C

FLOUR=1/4 C

SUGAR=1/4 C

STREUSEL: COCOA 1T, PASTRY FLOUR ¾ C, SUGAR 3/4C, BUTTER 1/3C.

Other versions:

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1. Embrace the fact you will have failures, and it is all part of the journey.  

 2. While embracing the learning curves you still

3.  Recognize the correct moisture content needed to

4. Understand it is not an exact science and embrace the fact that there is no set rising time as it all depends. 

5.  Just as all environments are different producing

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Understanding the portion of water in bread baking, helps guide the baker in knowing how to shape the dough, proof the dough and bake it.

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I know a long title, but I wanted you to pause on passing on this amazing recipe because it is both gluten free and vegan. I'm neither and this is one of the few pastries I eat on a regular basis due to the flavor, texture and how it makes me feel afterwards.

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GLUTEN

1. CREATE THE FLAX EGG MIXTURE. GRIND 1 CUP OF FLAX SEEDS IN A VITAMIX BLENDER ALONE BEFORE ADDING IN THE WATER.

2.    PUT GROUND FLAX SEEDS IN A LARGE PASTRY MIXING BOWL AND ADD 2 1/2 CUPS OF WATER, MIX TOGETHER WITH YOUR HAND.  LET SIT FOR 15 MINUTES.

3. CREATE WALNUT BUTTER.  PUT 6 1/2 CUPS OF WALNUTS ON A SHEET PAN.  BAKE FOR 10 MINUTES.

4. PUT 1/2 CUP OF CANOLA OIL AND 1/2 CUP OF WATER WITH WALNUTS IN A FOOD PROCESSOR. MIX TOGETHER.

5.    

ADD THE FOLLOWING INGREDIENTS TO THE BOWL. MIX ALL INGREDIENTS TOGETHER UNTIL

VANILLA      1 T                                                                    BAKING SODA      ¾ T                                                                

7.    ADD 4 CUPS OF GLUTEN FREE FLOUR THAT HAS XANTHAN GUM.  WE RECOMMEND BOBS RED MILL ONE TO ONE FLOUR.

 8. ADD 1 CUP OF BLUEBERRIES AND PUT IN A WELL SPRAYED SHEET PAN.

 9. MAKE TOPPING. USE THE REMAINDER OF THE WALNUT BUTTER AND ADD 1/2 CUP OF OATS AND 1 CUP OF BROWN SUGAR.  COMBINE FOR A STREUSEL TOPPING THAT YOU PUT

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