My first bread

nautes03

I've made several breads - usually I don't use commercial yeast but fermented water made from leaves of black tea, organic honey and water. I'm not sure those breads I made also can be called as sourdough bread.

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This was the first one I made. I made it with fermented water, organic whole wheat flour and salt. I wanted to make a crusty bread - but without oven, the result was more like a steam bread :(

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This is fermented water made from leaves of black tea. I usually make starter with this water. The recipe is so simple - You need only small amount of black tea leaves, a spoon of honey or sugar, water, and patience. Put all ingredients together in a jar, and stir it several times a day. A few days later, you can see many bubbles on the surface and smell sourish.

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This is my starter I usually use. I made it with 50 mL of fermented water and 50g of whole wheat flour. Mix fermented water and whole wheat flour together and put it in room temperature overnight. If the starter rise double in size then it's done.
Now I'm making real sourdough starter with barley flour and water. Today is the 4th day - I can check my starter is drawing its breath from small water drops formed all over my container :) While my starter is growing, I made homemade sugar free yogurt to make yogurt cream cheese using 60g of skimmed milk, 50mL of lactic-acid fermented milk, 400mL of warm water and a vacuum bottle.

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TeckPoh 2008 November 18
I've used tea in bread before, but not 'fermented' tea. Very interesting, indeed. For your starter, you use your fermented tea and mix with flour, and, it doubles? Must try that some time.

Have you thought of investing in an oven? Don't have to be an expensive one....Korea makes great electrical products. I use the oven almost everyday to cook meals, breads, cakes, pastries and etc. Or perhaps you can use a makeshift grill. You need dry heat, not wet, for western bread.

Could you please tell me your process for making yogurt? Your yogurt looks good. I've made it before, many years ago, but it didn't turn out very well...it seemed starchy. I've found various sites with yogurt-making tutorials and they use a thermometer. My candy thermometer just died...cracked at the end, and until I get a new one, I'd like to know how I can make yogurt without the use of a thermometer.

TP
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TeckPoh 2008 November 19
I did it! I made some pretty good yogurt without the use of a thermometer. Yay! Unsweetened yogurt!

Making any bread, nautes?
nautes03 2008 November 19
Congratulations, TP! You have a sense of cooking, so I was so sure you could do it! Enjoy your precious, healthy yogurt :)

Now I'm leavening a dough for English muffin with commercial yeast. And this time, I will try to bake muffins with a skillet. I read a recipe written by a really famous blogger in Korea and she is famous for baking without oven; She uses only skillets and a grill and makes nice breads. You can see pics what she made http://blog.naver.com/ohmytotoro/140051724854 (it's written in Korean, sorry)

How about you, TP? Are you making any bread? I really like to see pics what you made, so if you made any new bread, please show me the result!
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TeckPoh 2008 November 20
Afraid I can't squeeze breadmaking into my schedule of making mini quiches, apple wholewheat muffins and sesame biscuits...due for Sunday. My weekend is also going to be packed with social invites. Perhaps the 1st half of next week (my girls are asking for my breads!)...but we'll be leaving for Hong Kong, Macau and Shenzhen soon for a short holiday.

Looking forward to see your muffins.

TP

p.s. That totoro (my girls love that animation flick) site is really mouthwatering, with great step-by-step pix. Wish I could read korean.

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