Crust Treatments for Your Breads and Rolls
Brushing your loaves or rolls with a bit of wash or glaze might seem like an unnecessary hassle, especially when you are looking at whipping an egg and cleaning out a goopy pastry brush. However, almost all yeast breads require some type of crust treatment. Sometimes they simply add a beautiful shine or a lovely […]
Soft Hybrid Buttermilk Dinner Rolls
These rolls are soft and scrumptious. They are also hybrid rolls using both sourdough starter and commercial yeast. They can be started in the morning and ready for dinner that same day. Makes 24 rolls at 61/62 grams each (easier for the mixer to work this amount of dough) (or divide dough amounts in half […]
Pretzels!
When I attended the Quest for Sourdough workshop in St. Vith, Belgium (home of the only sourdough library), I filmed many of the bakers as they worked. Here are two videos showing how to shape pretzels and the dipping of the pretzel dough in food grade lye. Manfred Enoksson gave the demonstration. At the bottom […]