I had a demand for rye bread a couple days ago when a boarder/tenant
brought home some cheese and some pickled brisket he wanted smoked up
for Pastrami or Montreal Smoked Meat so I obliged him. I got a nice
little electric smoker a couple years back.
I made 60/40 Dark rye and Unbleached AP flour using a AP flour starter.
It turned out really nice. One wake up grow of the AP flour starter,
one long overnight grow of 1 cup Starter, 2 cups rye, 1 cup water, one
short get it lively grow of a 60/40 flour mix in the morning and the
loaf grow. From loafing to final oven rise was close to 4X volume. My
critters were growing nice.
Everyone wanted a sort of Reuben/ Monte Christo cross sandwich so I made
them.
I sliced up the pastrami thin, put mustard on the buttered rye bread,
added sauerkraut with a little thousand island dressing on that, topped
it with a mix of swiss and mozzarella cheeses, one more slice of bread,
dipped it all in egg and fried them up then served them with a Caesar
salad topped with homemade SD garlic/Parmesan croutons, hard boiled egg
and bacon bits.
It was a feast.
Some photos he
http://www.mikeromain.shutterfly.com
Anyone else have photos of their daily bread so to speak? The websites
around only have folk's first tries usually and things like that, it's
nice to see what experience has gotten them to.
Mike
Mike Romain wrote:
I am really pleased with my homemade sourdough starter that is now 8
months old. It has become nicely predictable so I can end up with the
type of bread I am aiming for that day. I am learning the times vs temp
of it's moods and tastes also.
Yesterday I made a couple sour 'tasting' loaves with some dinner rolls
and while that was rising, another batch I also gave a couple long room
temp grows to for the sour to make English Muffins got fried up. Mmmm.
I think the English Muffins are one of the best uses for sourdough
starter besides a loaf, our extended family loves them so a batch is a
weekly thing.
I/we also like sourdough pizza and made a nice one the other day.
The photos of both endeavors is the featured album in my photo site.
http://www.mikeromain.shutterfly.com
Mike