What are you baking?

[mrs quoad]

And a boring wholemeal:

And a pretty but impractical one:

Jfc Qoad how are you not 100 stone?

I don't eat most of it, thumbs. I'm primarily a feeder / baker (with substantive eater components).

A whole focaccia at work will disappear in about half an hour. And most of the veggie one will go to the wife!

 

[mrs quoad]

yeah, i did that yesterday morning. some of it is now in the fridge, because i don't need that much bread, not even for 5 of us.half an hour was waiting for the end results to come out of the oven.

left it a bit longer because i know the kitchen was really cold. and it barely moved for hours.

i have a sneaking suspicion that this is going to have to happen more often.

thank fuck for the cheap secondhand kenwood chef i got a few years back.

maybee i should have done more bread for 5. 1/4 gone within 10 mins

Glad it went down well

Shame about the rise, though! You did add more yeast, in addition to the sponge?

(Also: love my Chef. Bought it when we moved in. Wife said: "it'll be another gadget that clutters up the kitchen and never gets used!!!" Reckon it's been used, solidly, >6 times a week for nearly a year, thumbs.)

 

[kittyP]

Congratulations on cake triumph 5t3IIa x

 

[toggle]

Glad it went down well

Shame about the rise, though! You did add more yeast, in addition to the sponge?

(Also: love my Chef. Bought it when we moved in. Wife said: "it'll be another gadget that clutters up the kitchen and never gets used!!!" Reckon it's been used, solidly, >6 times a week for nearly a year, thumbs.)

it was the sponge that went slow. and that was the cold overnight. it perked up fast when the room warmed up when the oven went on in the morning to do chrimble cake. running well late on that this year. but that gave 4 hours of warm room.

in a warmer room, the dough tried to escape the bowl. i'd left youngest in the kitchen using up the last of the pastry on jam tarts and she came to tell me that it was trying to get out of the bowl to get her. need a box like yours, but mine are all full o wool atm


i also did oat and almond crumble mince pies and 2 batches of sweet rolls, one apricot and the other cinnamon.

 

[mrs quoad]

Makes sense to double check these before eating, as several were made by the toddler, and thus have clear outer traces of baked beans.

 

[mrs quoad]

Supplies.

Thumbs.

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Baked shortbread cookies ...and they didnt burn this time...

 

[Orang Utan]

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Supplies.

Thumbs.

Wow, I think you may have a baking problem!

 

[mrs quoad]

Wow, I think you may have a baking problem!

Got through this lot in two months:





And a fair bit of that baking was mixed with other flours. (Prefer 50/50 with a strong Canadian for ciabattas, etc. For example).

I justify it to myself, bc it's a one hour drive through incredible countryside, to buy top-end Yorkshire grown farm-to-fence stoneground organic flour from the farm gate. And it works out at 78p/kg - c.1/3 the price of Dove's organic, and pennies more than Sainsbury's basic strong white. And it's sold by incredibly nice people (from a farm outhouse), too!



Just pulled this out of the oven, too:



Dark rye and fennel.

Tremendous in small doses, but it'll probably be another month or two before I make another :lol:

 

[mrs quoad]

Should add - I'd bought a couple of their 1.5kg retail bags @ £2.55 before finally thinking "fuck this" and trolling across North Yorks for a few sacks. Significantly less than half the price, for an absolutely outstanding flour. And my 30-mile drive to pick it up adds most of the total food miles :rofl:

Thumbs.

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Got through this lot in two months:

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And a fair bit of that baking was mixed with other flours. (Prefer 50/50 with a strong Canadian for ciabattas, etc. For example).

I justify it to myself, bc it's a one hour drive through incredible countryside, to buy top-end Yorkshire grown farm-to-fence stoneground organic flour from the farm gate. And it works out at 78p/kg - c.1/3 the price of Dove's organic, and pennies more than Sainsbury's basic strong white. And it's sold by incredibly nice people (from a farm outhouse), too!



Just pulled this out of the oven, too:

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Dark rye and fennel.

Tremendous in small doses, but it'll probably be another month or two before I make another :lol:

That looks scrumptious . ..I can nearly smell it...

 

[mrs quoad]

Base for an Apple, pear, ginger, rhubarb and orange crumble.

Edit: and I've put a fair whack of semolina in the crumble topping, as I suspect this will lead to an exceptionally crispy crumble. Thumbs.

 

[RubyToogood]

That looks extremely... robust.

Just pulled this out of the oven, too:

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Dark rye and fennel.

Tremendous in small doses, but it'll probably be another month or two before I make another :lol:

 

[mrs quoad]

 

[5t3IIa]

I'm actually a bit scared of it

Got one slice left!! We've been heating it up to have with ice cream

 

[mrs quoad]

Herby croutons; choc chip cookies. Thumbs.

 

[clicker]

Your house must smell gorgeous. I'd love to be your neighbour .

 

[mrs quoad]

Unexceptional loaves, could've been proved a bit longer. But I do quite like how the slashes turned out.

 

[Saffy]

blueberry pancakes.

 

[Addy]

My second attempt at carrot cake, the first one was yummy!

 

[Addy]

Chocolate cake

 

[Orang Utan]

First official attempt at a flourless chocolate cake (my first actual flourless cake was accidental).
Haven't tasted it yet but the bowl slurpings taste yummy.
And I don't have the right size nor shape cake tin.
But I cant believe it has even risen, when there's no raising agent but egg whites.

 

[Biddlybee]

Frangipane mince pies.

 

[Espresso]

Mince pies here, too. Some had grated marzipan in them and some had grated crystallized ginger in them and some had neither.
I made too much pastry/rolled it out thinner than usual, so I made marzipan tarts with the last bit of pastry. They are rather good, for saying I've never even heard of such a thing. Cool.

 

[Argonia]

Potatoes

 

[polly]

I was in a bad and impatient mood when trying to get my Christmas cake out of its tin, so left half of it behind. So yesterday we made rocky road with all the left behind Christmas cake mixed in. It probably doesn't count as baking but it's bloody lush

 

[polly]

Frangipane mince pies.

That's such a good idea! Have you got pics and or recipe?

 

[Biddlybee]

I use this recipe, but don't make my own pastry or mincemeat

 

[Saffy]

Not strictly baking but delicious nonetheless.

Festive rocky road.

 

[5t3IIa]

This next Hidden heart cake I got a whisk for Christmas