11.12.07

Spelt Mix Bread : Recipe

Posted in Bread Making, Recipe at 3:43 pm by Tribal Platypus

This is the mentioned Spelt Mix Bread, it’s based on a base recipe I use, and from which I deviate from when introducing changes. I can’t have too much yeast, so I reduced the amount of yeast to half. Unfortunately, my digital scales can’t handle small amounts, so I can only tell you I used half a teaspoon of dried yeast.

Spelt Mix Bread

Ingredients:

  • 220g Tepid Water
  • 2 tbsp Olive Oil
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1.5 tsp sugar
  • 100g Strong White Bread Flour
  • 380g Spelt Flour
  • 1 tsp dried yeast

    • Method:
    1. Mix all ingredients together and knead for 5 minutes.
    2. Place in a warm place to leave to rise for 5 minutes.
    3. Take out and knead for 20 minutes.
    4. Leave in warm place to rise for 1 hour.
    5. Take out and knead for 5 minutes.
    6. Place in oiled bread tin and leave in warm place to rise for 30 minutes.

    7. With 10 minutes to go till the dough is ready. I turn on my oven to heat at 190C for 10 minutes. When it’s time to take dough out, the oven is preheated and ready for dough. You might have an oven which needs longer to preheat, so remember to take this into account.

    8. Place oiled bread tin and dough into preheated oven for 25 minutes.
    9. Take bread out, let to stand 5 – 10 minutes and turn out onto rack to cool.

    Craving for bread

    Posted in Blogroll, Bread Making at 3:17 pm by Tribal Platypus

    I have a huge craving for bread. In our latest experiment with replacing yeast with bicarbonate of soda, it has gone wrong (too much, too salty). So I’ve gone and made a bog standard spelt mix with half the amount of yeast. The bread hasn’t risen much, but it’s still tasty.
    Recipe to come.

    11.07.07

    Hairy Tale

    Posted in Task at 11:18 pm by Tribal Platypus

    So the first 5 days I washed on the first, the third and then the fifth day, each time pushing back the boundaries of fatness build up. Every morning I brush my hair well with my new bristle brush making sure to brush out the fatty roots, or so I think. I see myself as redistributing this fatty goodness all around and away. My fourth wash was done with a two day break instead of the one, which brings me up to my third day break otherwise known as “Day 11″. I have discovered that the back crown area fattens up the most. I have also discovered that wash day is where my hair looks the worst, and this is after the wash. Although my hair is starting to feel like it’s going to need another thorough rinse tomorrow, I am interested that it is looking at its best ever. This is how my hair looked previously after washing it in shampoo for the first day, subsequent days meant the hair looked duller, worse, no volume and greased down.

    Now, although it greases up, my hair has volume, there’s glow and it looks good.