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Poll: how much personal time per loaf?
On 3 Sep 2003 09:28:38 -0700, (Jessica U.
Gothie) wrote:
> I make one loaf of bread at a time. Total time elapsed from
> "I want to make bread" to "There is bread for me to eat" is
> about twenty-nine hours, give or take.
>
> Total time where I actually have to be interacting with the
> bread: forty-five minutes.
From starting bread to having bread, overnight.
Actually messing around with the bread and the starter, about
five minutes.
I use a bread machine, set allow the bread to rise three times,
one and half hours each rise. I pile in the ingredients,
including a big batch of well fermented starter at night, and
the bread is ready in the morning.
After I put in the ingredients in the breadmaker, I add some
more flour and milk to the remaining starter, and put the starter in a
jar, stir well, put the jar in a paper bag, in a warm oven to
ferment overnight, so that I will have starter for the next
loaf next time.
In the morning, I take the starter out of the now cold oven and
put it in the fridge, and the bread out of the bread machine.
If the starter smells a bit off when I take it out of the oven
I freshen the starter before putting it into the fridge by
giving it a bit more flour and milk. The starter continues to
froth in the fridge, though more slowly of course.
The maximum rise time the breadmaker allows is one and a half
hours per proofing. To get a reasonable rise in the limited
time that a breadmaker permits, needs lots of good starter.
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