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🍞 This Week We're Baking Challah
After pizza week we're shifting gears. This week we're baking challah, the braided bread that's been on celebration tables for thousands of years. It's the bread of Shabbat. The bread of welcome. The bread of homecoming. I've got a personal reason for putting this one on the schedule, and I'll tell you the whole story this week. For now, here's the lay of the week. 🥖 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵, 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲: Three-strand braid: The most approachable shape, and the one most home bakers start with. If this is your first challah, this is your braid. Six-strand braid: The classic Shabbat shape, more involved but absolutely doable. We'll walk through it Friday step by step. Round: The shape used for Rosh Hashanah and celebration. Symbolizes the cycle of the year and the unbroken thread of family. Beautiful at any table. 🌱 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: Top with sesame, poppy, or everything seeds. Add raisins to the dough if that's your tradition. The only line we hold is no butter or dairy in the dough itself. Challah is meant to be shared at any table, and that's the rule that protects it. 📚 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲'𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸: The dough, what makes it different from any other enriched bread. The Herr Sherman story, and why this bread shaped how I teach. Braid breakdowns, three-strand and six-strand, with the round as an alternative. Egg wash, seeds, and getting that deep mahogany shine. The tradition behind the bread, taught with respect, not religion. 🥖 Recipe: https://pantry.bakinggreatbread.com/recipes/special-round-challah This is one dough, one teaching, and a room full of different shapes coming out of different ovens on Saturday. Pull out your eggs, your flour, your honey, and bake with us. Perfection is not required. Progress is. Henry ⭐🔥 Special Round Challah — Yeasted https://pantry.bakinggreatbread.com/recipes/special-round-challah Special Round Challah — Sourdough https://pantry.bakinggreatbread.com/recipes/special-round-challah?variant=sourdough
🍞 This Week We're Baking Challah
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🍞 A Few Years of Challah
Pulled some old shots together. Different years, different ovens, different braids, but the same dough every time. This is the bread we're baking this week. If you've been thinking about it, this is your sign. Henry ⭐🔥
🍞 A Few Years of Challah
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What a bake-along yesterday. 🔥🍕
I’m still buzzing from it. The photos, the saves, the way you all showed up for each other in the threads. That’s the whole point of this place right there. The full recap is in the oven right now. I gave myself a 3 o’clock deadline, so keep an eye out this afternoon. You’ll want to see who showed up swinging. While I’ve got you, I’m building out this month’s bake-along agenda and I want your voice in it. Here’s the question: What bread do you want to learn? Not the loaf you already pull off in your sleep. I mean the one that’s been staring you down. The bake you keep scrolling past because it looks like more than you’re ready for. That’s the one I want to hear about. This calendar is built to stretch you, not keep you comfortable. I’ll announce this week’s bread tomorrow. But the rest of the month is still wet clay, so tell me what you want to see on it. Drop it in the comments. Be specific. If three of you name the same loaf, it’s going on the calendar. ~ Henry ⭐🔥
What a bake-along yesterday. 🔥🍕
My rectangular sourdough pizza is scrumptious!!!
@Henry Hunter @Sandy Chong First, I couldn't believe it when the float test worked! 😳Then I couldn't believe how well the dough rose, even after putting it in the fridge! Then, I was even more surprised and impressed when I put the dough in the sheet pan, it fought me, and I waited 10 minutes, and when I came back, it relaxed and didn't fight me anymore!! 😊 Though these are the recipe tips that Henry gives, I didn't know if they would work for me, in my kitchen, and with my dough. But they did! Perfectly crispy crust, and an unbelievable crumb!. And those pizza bones??? Oh. My. GOODNESS!!! I only put ground beef, mozzarella, turkey pepperoni and olive oil around the border on my pizza! It is more scrumptiouser than scrumptious!!! I will never order pizza out again! Thank you @Henry Hunter !!!
My rectangular sourdough pizza is scrumptious!!!
Today’s experiment… 50% King Arthur whole wheat sourdough bread.
The less is more way… Formula: 100/78/2/20 Total flour 1200 grams Recipe: 2 loaves 540g High Gluten flour 540g Whole Wheat flour 816g water… hold back 41g to help incorporate the salt after the autolyse 240g Hank… 100% hydration = 60g HG flour/30g WW flour/30g Dark Rye flour 24g salt ——————— 2160g total weight 1… mix all flour + 775g 90°f warm water to a shaggy mass. Cover mixing bowl and let it hydrate for an hour. Dough temperature 86°f. 2… add salt + held back water, 41g + Hank. Mix in using the pincher method, Rubaud method and when it starts to feel slightly cohesive do about 15 slap & fold repetitions. Dough temperature 83°f. Rest for 30 minutes. 3… do another session of slap & folds until the dough becomes cohesive, smooth and slightly shiny. Leave on bench, cover with inverted mixing bowl and rest for 30 minutes. Dough temperature 82°f. 4… coil folds. The dough passed the Windowpane test. Transfer to bulk fermentation vessel. Dough temperature 81°f. Mark vessel for starting point to track the percentage of rise, 4” from the bottom of the vessel. Mark 5” on the vessel as the indicator the dough has risen 25%, my preferred percentage of rise for this batch of dough. Put vessel onto the heating pad set at 82°f for the uninterrupted bulk fermentation until it’s risen the desired 25%. No touchy!🤨 5… the dough reached the 5” line and I’ve changed into my BSO, Bubble Security Officer responsibilities. I’ll slant the vessel and release the dough onto the bench with gravity so as to not pop bubbles extracting it from the vessel. I use my 9” bench scraper, known as a drywall knife at your local hardware store, to divide the dough. Then I use the blade on the scraper to lift 1 side of the dough onto the top of itself to create layers. Then I use that blade to drag the dough onto my dry bench, no flour, no water, to shape it into a mound, gently, to not pop many bubbles. So preshaping is complete and my hands haven’t touched the dough since I lifted it into the bulk fermentation vessel, hours ago, when the gluten development was complete. Cover each mound of dough with an inverted mixing bowl and let it bench rest for 20 minutes.
Today’s experiment… 50% King Arthur whole wheat sourdough bread.
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