As mentioned earlier, this recipe comes from Bakery Bits and can be found in the leaflet that they produced for use with the La Cloche baking dome. It uses 60/40 Strong White and Spelt flours. Fresh yeast is called for. Just for once I had none to hand, so I used Dove’s Farm active dried …
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Sour Dough Spelt
I wibbled about baking the sourdough yesterday – by the time that it was almost ready to bake there was no way to fit in a meal that would enable us to try it fresh, so I popped the proving baskets into a very cold room and got them out first thing this morning. The …
Bill Update 3
Bill was going like the clappers this morning when I looked in on him. I divided… discarding half, and gave the first cold water feed. Bill has now been moved from the warmth of the server cupboard and back to the kitchen, where it is much cooler. The spelt is going down fast – must …
Bill Update 2
Bill, 48 hrs: working! and fed. I missed the initial signs of fermentation, of the first odd few bubbles. I removed Bill’s lid this morning and initially thought that he was still not working, but the smell gave him away. The surface of the brew was dead smooth and almost glassy, but the volume had …
Update Bill
Bill at 24 hrs: no activity discernible
Not much to see here
Not a lot going on this weekend. A tray of mince pies just emerged from the oven, ready for our Open Studio afternoon, but I failed to make my marmalade this morning due to an insufficiency of available sugar. I did manage to get my Spelt Starter going, though. He’s sitting here on my desk, …