Happy new year Doughies followers, wishing you all a happy 2015. 2014 has been a bit quiet on the sourdough front here at doughies owing to current life circumstance, with all our bread making equipment in local storage and life continuing in an oven-less static caravan whilst our house is built, and the wood fired oven… Continue reading 2015 – Project Sourdough Culture
Sour-do or Sour-don’t
Sourdough Panini Ooo Sour-do or sour-don't? Ingredients- 1) Wheat flour 2) Water 3) Sourdough (wheat flour, yeast , water) Ok so far doing good. 4) Yeast More yeast? Ok not a true sourdough then... 5) Extra virgin olive oil 6) Salt 7) Rapeseed, sunflower and palm oil 8) Malted barley flour Hmm ok I can… Continue reading Sour-do or Sour-don’t
A doughies Christmas roundup
High time we had a little doughies roundup, and seeing as there's only a few days till Christmas, let's make it a Christmas roundup! In no particular order, here's some snippets of news for interested bread-heads :- Bread slicer & bread prover We scored two pieces of new kit for the bakehouse. The first was… Continue reading A doughies Christmas roundup
Rocketeering
Thinking about and now mid way through drawing up new oven plans ready for quotation, and then onwards to building. Our mark 1 oven currently in use on bake days is a characterful but clunky black oven - black ovens are high mass wood fired ovens, with the fire inside the baking chamber. The main… Continue reading Rocketeering
Local Producer Event in Skye
Today me, abs and Verity (the doughies gang) attended "Rural Shops and Local Producers: a Local Supply Chain Event" at the impressive Sabhal Mor Ostaig venue on the Isle of Skye. The event was geared towards local food producers and retailers in Skye and the West Highlands. We rattled out a few sourdoughs last night… Continue reading Local Producer Event in Skye
1 + 2 + 3
The Fort William agricultural show was on last Saturday, and albeit we didn't make it there, we were reflecting whilst doing some wild foraging (Chanterelles are starting to bloom) on being there the previous year. A whole years past and and how things change. Dependants (other than our sourdough starter) now includes Moss the dog… Continue reading 1 + 2 + 3
Tartine Testing
Tartine Testing Started to get back into the rhythm of baking sourdough on the wood fired oven last Thursday; aiming to start a weekly bake for private consumption and possible some farm gate sales - keeping Doughies ticking over during those sleepless nights with the new bairn, and trying to crack the Tartine sourdough recipe. Couple of pics below;… Continue reading Tartine Testing
Wild Garlic Naam Bread
Just finished a batch of 26 wild garlic naam breads, destined for our freezer, but I expect not going to hang around long...Photos below:-
Wild Garlic
Wild garlic creations here at doughies - cooking up some wonderful ideas for using wild garlic nuggets, wild garlic butter and wild garlic pesto in bread... Local bread + local weed = #localfood
Update and Un-know
Wow it's been a bit quiet on the doughies blog of late...our last blog was September 2012! It seems Winter 2012/2013 has just flown by! Well here's a much overdue update from us at Doughies. Doughies has been on a bit of a go slow since Abs (head baker) has been focusing on an altogether… Continue reading Update and Un-know
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