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Latest newsletter revisits Passover and asks a fifth question: if you are an observant Jewish sourdough baker, what do you do with your starter over Passover?

Questions too for sustainable fish, citrus salads and livestock emissions.

https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/ETN-236-leavened/

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Latest Eat This Newsletter has it all: mac and cheese, sourdough, Indian Indian, microplastics in mothers milk, and the drive to large chain restaurants.

https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-189-inauthentic/

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Finished reading: Sourdough by Robin Sloan

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Currently reading: Sourdough by Robin Sloan, ISBN: 9781250192752





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One of the resultant loaves

One of the resultant loaves

One of the resultant loaves. 50% wholemeal sourdough.

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Time for some of that fine 100% rye sourdough with toasted sunflower seeds and a hint of caraway.

Time for some of that fine 100% rye sourdough with toasted sunflower seeds and a hint of caraway.

Time for some of that fine 100% rye sourdough with toasted sunflower seeds and a hint of caraway.

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Today’s effort: seven seed sourdough semi wholemeal.

Today’s effort: seven seed sourdough semi wholemeal.

Today’s effort: seven seed sourdough semi wholemeal.

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Today I will mostly be baking light rye sourdough with caraway seeds.

Today I will mostly be baking light rye sourdough with caraway seeds.

Today I will mostly be baking light rye sourdough with caraway seeds.

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Today, I will mostly be baking light rye sourdough with caraway seeds.

Today, I will mostly be baking light rye sourdough with caraway seeds.

Today, I will mostly be baking light rye sourdough with caraway seeds.

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Ave Fornax!

Ave Fornax!

Ave Fornax!

@tavolamediterranea has decreed that today is the start of Fornacalia, which I am celebrating with a very un-Roman bread. At least, I don't think the Romans ever baked with rye. And certainly not sunflower seeds.

This is the 100% rye sourdough with a sunflower seed soaker from @raleighstreetbaker reduced to what is, for me, a more manageable quantity. Link to full recipe in bio.

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No sourdough discards here.

No sourdough discards here.

No sourdough discards here.

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A mostly white (5% each rye and wholemeal) sourdough loaf for Sunday breakfast and beyond.

A mostly white (5% each rye and wholemeal) sourdough loaf for Sunday breakfast and beyond.

A mostly white (5% each rye and wholemeal) sourdough loaf for Sunday breakfast and beyond.

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5 kg of sourdough emerges from the fridge after an overnight, active slumber party.

5 kg of sourdough emerges from the fridge after an overnight, active slumber party.

5 kg of sourdough emerges from the fridge after an overnight, active slumber party.

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Inspired by last week’s class from the @coloradograinchain I have been working my way to this moment

Inspired by last week’s class from the @coloradograinchain I have been working my way to this moment

Inspired by last week’s class from the @coloradograinchain I have been working my way to this moment. Of course I don’t have nearly enough loaf tins. 100% rye sourdough with toasted sunflower seeds and caraway soaker.

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Baked up nice, too

Baked up nice, too

Baked up nice, too. Taste test in about four hours.

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A friend and bread client gave me a bag of Khorasan flour, so not Kamut, but, with a tacit request, later confirmed, that I baker a loaf

A friend and bread client gave me a bag of Khorasan flour, so not Kamut, but, with a tacit request, later confirmed, that I baker a loaf

A friend and bread client gave me a bag of Khorramshahr flour, so not Kamut, but, with a tacit request, later confirmed, that I baker a loaf.

So, here goes. I fed my 75% wholewheat starter, thinking this would be whole too. It isn’t, but that’s ok. Kneads up oK, with a nice pale yellow cast. Seems a bit weak though, even though the packet said 14% protein. Obviously not that great for gluten. We shall see.

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2020-02-13

2020-02-13

Even after spending all night in the fridge, my sourdough shows a prodigious rise. 

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I wrote about reviving my sourdough after an extended absence.

https://www.fornacalia.com/2020/sourdough-revival/

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Just flipped the switch on tickets for the next one-day Sourdough U course in Rome. Come and learn how to care for and use a sourdough leaven. Suitable for experienced bakers and absolute beginners. https://ti.to/sourdough-u/2019-11

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I wonder how easy it is to count the corpses of yeast and lactobacillus cells in a baked loaf?

https://www.sourdough.co.uk/can-real-sourdough-identified/

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