Baking Glossary
Bakers throw around a lot of terms and often don't define them. As I use jargon I'll try to start recording it here for the sake of building up a reference. ABAA: Artisan Baking Across America, by Maggie Glezer. A book featuring profiles of artisan bakers and recipes for some of their breads. autolyse: a technique for improving gluten development without heavy kneading. Combine the flour and water from your recipe in a bowl and mix until the flour is fully hydrated. Baker’s percentage:a convention for listing the ingredients in a dough in which the quantity of each ingredient is expressed a percentage of the total amount of flour. BBA: The Bread Baker's Apprentice, a book by Peter Reinhart. Banneton: a woven basket, sometimes lined with linen, used to hold a shaped loaf while it is proofing. Batard: a loaf that has an oval or oblong shape. Biga: a term used variously as a very stiff (~50% hydration preferment), or as a generic term for preferment. Boule: a round loaf (French for "ball").
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Basic Sourdough Starter Recipe
In addition to flour, water, and yeast, your starter also contains bacteria. When these bacteria feed on the sugars in flour, they produce acidic by-products. This is what gives sourdough its sour taste. Actually, all doughs contain at least some bacteria. So why aren’t all breads sour? In doughs made with bakers’ yeast (the kind you buy in the store), the yeast outnumber the bacteria. Sourdoughs and other raised breads also differ from one another because of the eating habits of the yeasts that make them rise.
Percent hydration of pizza dough
tjkoko, The answer to your question depends mostly on the type or style of pizza that you want to make. If you look at the matter of pizza dough hydration from 30,000 feet, the range of hydration values you will see can run from the mid-thirties percent to close to 100%. If you examine the individual styles, the answer becomes much clearer and easier to understand. For example, a NY style dough formulation typically has a hydration value of from about 58% to about 65% (see An American style dough formulation, such as represented by a Papa John's or Domino's type of dough, can have a hydration of around 56-60%. A Chicago deep-dish dough has a similar interplay between hydration and oil but the oil can typically range from about 8% to well over 20%. A Neapolitan dough formulation, especially one using 00 flour, can have a hydration value of around 55-60%. Peter
Measurements-Conversions
Click below for measurements and conversions: All conversions in the charts below are approximate and most have been rounded up or down to the nearest whole number for easy measuring. Equivalent Measures U.S. The following chart is a guide for converting standard US measurements to metric measurements. Fahrenheit and Centigrade (Celsius) Conversion The following chart is a guide for converting from Fahrenheit to Centigrade. Convert Fahrenheit to Centigrade (Celsius) Subtract 32 from the Fahrenheit reading, multiply by 5, and then divide by 9 to find the Centigrade reading.For example: 160o F – 32 = 128; 128 × 5 = 640; 640 ÷ 9 = 71.11o C; round down to 70o C. for the >oven setting. Convert Centigrade (Celsius) to Fahrenheit Multiply the Centigrade reading by 9, divide by 5, and then add 32 to find the Fahrenheit reading.For example: 70o C × 9 = 630; 630 ÷ 5 = 126; 126 + 32 = 158o F; round up to 160o F for the >oven setting. Translating Old-Fashioned American Measurements
Pizza Dough | Italian Pizza Dough | Authentic Pizza Dough
Authentic Vera Pizza Napoletana Dough Recipe Ingredients By Volume 4 cups Molino Caputo Tipo 00 flour 1 ½ cups, plus 2 TBL water 2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp dry active yeast By Weight 500gr Molino Caputo Tipo 00 flour 325gr water (65% hydration) 10gr salt 3gr active dry yeast We highly recommend cooking by weight. Mix the dough in a stand mixer, by hand or in a bread machine. Cover the dough and let it rise for 1 1/2 - 2 hours, or until double. To make your pizza balls, shape each piece of dough into a ball. Your pizza balls will need to rest for about an hour to become soft and elastic, so that they can be easily stretched into a thin crust pizza. If you won't need your dough for more than an hour, refrigerate it until you are ready to start. If you won't have an hour to let your dough rest, read our Dough in a Hurry strategy. Additional Resources Make Vera Pizza Napoletana at home. Try our authentic (and easy) pizza sauce recipe. Download our free eBooks—Wood-Fired Pizza and Pizza Stone Pizza.
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Baking Sourdough Bread with a Stiff Starter | the perfect loaf
Baking in the winter always presents problems here at my house: it’s cold! Probably not quite the cold you get in other parts of the world but it sure is cold to me, and my starter. Kitchen temperatures are consistently hovering between 68º and 70ºF which really inhibits yeast and bacteria activity. I’ll typically offset this by changing the percentage of mature starter carryover or by heating up the water used in my feedings, but you really want to try to keep your starter around 75º to 80ºF — this is not easy to do when winter is bombarding your area. A short aside… In the winter with all the holiday events and cold weather I find myself baking pies and cakes more and more. Ok back on task here… During this challenging baking season I’ve been experimenting with a much more stiff starter than my typical “liquid” one I’ve described thus far (outlined by Chad Robertson at Tartine Bakery). Liquid Starter Characteristics: Stiff Starter Starter Conclusions Update: Autolyse & Mix – 11:30am Crust
A list of sourdough websites in the UK, London and the USA
In addition to the information on The Sourdough School site, there are many websites out there offering everything from an in depth exploration of the how’s and why’s of sourdough baking, to ‘how to’ guides and recipes for home bakers. While the list below isn’t exhaustive, it highlights some of my favourite sites and those I think you might find useful whether you are a beginner sourdough baker, or more experienced and looking to learn more and try new ideas. All list of sourdough websites covering all you need to know from starting a starter to pulling a freshly baked loaf from the oven – Northwest Sourdough Information, recipes and videos showing how to get the most from your sourdough baking. Sourdough baker This website brings together a useful collection of recipes, baking tips and stories. Sourdough Companion With recipes, tutorials and discussion forums, this site is a great way to explore sourdough baking. Sourdough Home Real Bread Campaign The Fresh Loaf Why sourdough? Heo Yeah Hum
