diff --git a/recipes/sourdough_bread.md b/recipes/sourdough_bread.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c3bd90 --- /dev/null +++ b/recipes/sourdough_bread.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +# Sourdough Bread + +## Ingredients + +### For the leaven: + +- 1 Tablespoon sourdough starter +- 75 grams bread flour +- 75 grams water + +### For the dough + +- 14 grams salt + 50 grams water +- 475 grams water +- 700 grams bread flour +- 2 cast iron pots + +## Instructions + +1. The night before, combine all the ingredients of the leaven, and mix to form a thick batter. Place in a large bowl and cover overnight. +- Combine salt and 50 grams of water in a small bowl, mix, and set aside. +- Pour 475 grams of water into the leaven, breaking up the clumps. +- Add the 700 grams of flour to the leaven, mixing until you see no more dry flour, and have a shaggy dough. +- Cover the bowl and rest for 2 hours. +- Pour the salt-water into the bowl, pinching and squeezing into the dough. +- Fold the dough by lifting it up, pulling it over, then rotating the bowl 90°. Fold it 4 times (rotating 4 times). Repeat these 4 folds every 30 minutes for 2.5 hours. +- Let the dough rise another 1 hour. +- Sprinkle some flour on the counter, pour the dough onto it, and split into two equal loaves with a pastry scraper. +- Work these into rounds by "turning left while driving", and place them into the iron pots, covered. +- Let rise for 1.5 hours +- Score the tops of the loaves with a knife, a cross works. +- Heat oven to 500°. +- Put covered pots into oven, cook for 25 minutes. +- Turn heat down to 450°, cook for another 15 minutes. +- Take out pots and remove the tops, then place back in and bake for another 15-25 minutes. +- Remove them from the pots with a spatula, and set to cool for at least 15 minutes. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/recipes/yogurt.md b/recipes/yogurt.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9ed0e35 --- /dev/null +++ b/recipes/yogurt.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# Yogurt + +## Ingredients + +- Gallon of Milk +- Half a cup of other yogurt +- Thermometer +- Cheese cloth +- Straining bowl + +## Instructions + +1. Sanitize pot, spoon, thermometer, bowl, lids, with boiling water. +2. Heat a gallon of milk to 200°. +3. Cool quickly to 115°, using ice bath in the sink. +4. Combine a half a cup of yogurt, and pour in the heated milk into the cup, stirring. Put back into large pot after mixed. +5. Put in oven overnight with pot lid on, wrap with rags. +6. In the morning, strain in a large colander in the fridge, cheese cloth on top, with a bowl under it. Empty the bowl every hour for 4 hours. Wait a total of 12 +