It’s a really beautiful day! For some reason I awoke this morning at 5.30am naturally (honestly it was nothing to do with the amount of lager I’d drunk the day before whilst watching the rugby)
We have got nothing in the house at the moment - we are striving to empty the fridge, freezer and cupboards of all the things we have “stored there for later” – so I decided to make some bread. I made a yeast mix up with some Allisons dried yeast, and left it to go to work – but it seems this batch of yeast is no good, so it’s going to have to go out, it just didn’t foam up. Luckily I had some more dried yeast so I made a new batch up with that. This has been wholly successful and lovely light loaf has been consumed :)
Now, whilst I was waiting for the process to happen (rising, proofing etc) I got to reading and discovered many interesting website on leavened bread. This is something that is of interest, I like the idea of something living for me to keep in the fridge, dormant, and then bring back to life like Frankenstein! So now I’m making up a batch of leaven following a recipe from “River Cottage Handbook No.3 – Bread” which refers to it as Levain or Poolish.
So now I have a 1 litre clip-top Kilner jar with a mix of flour and water it it, sitting underneath my combi-boiler trying to get going – I’ll update you when I see how it’s going ;)
Just out of interest there is an interesting “community” of sourdough lovers (the name for any bread made for Leaven) here
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