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Thanks for this, Eric! I just watched it. Makes you want to go bake bread right away. And their loaves look so delicious, just want to jump in there and have a bite. Very informative as well. A real treat for all us bread bakers!
Thanks Eric for providing the film to your subscribers! Would love to try the recipe for their whole meal bread where they sift out the bran, mix it with boiling water and then add it to the dough.
Oh what a beautiful video! I have GOT to try that method of sifting and scalding the bran then recombining it in the dough. Thank you for giving us access to this great information.
@dawg13154@maryjobo I’d also love to learn more about some of the recipes of the Wild Hearth Bakery. On the subject of sifting, soaking and returning bran to the dough, you might enjoy this post. I added it back at the initial mixing, though. I believe they let the gluten develop in the dough and add it later – will have to try someday.
A morning cuppa coffee, a bread currently baking in my oven and a chance to sit, sip and watch this wonderful video. Thank you, Eric! As I was watching I had the thought that we all are Real Bread Bakers. Thanks to Breadtopia and Eric’s vision for teaching home bakers how to produce quality bread with quality ingredients those of us here on this forum join the ranks of Real Bread Bakers!
Thank you Eric for providing access to this wonderful documentary! It makes me excited for my next bake in a few days when our temp in the Twin Cities cools down a bit. Looking forward to applying some of the techniques that were showcased!
I’m curious about the dark bread - molasses? And too, I’m thinking of trying the soaking of the bran and incorporating back in. I grind my grains and sift out the bran (giving it to my chickens, so not a total waste). I just started some sourdough biscuit dough. It was a great video. Love the “community” and “company” meanings.
Eric-Thanks so much for giving this to us this weekend! My wife and I were in Glasgow last year, and I am sure we tasted bread from this wonderful bakery at the restaurants we ate at.
Thanks Melissa. In the video, I understood him to say that they add the scalded bran back “towards the end of fermentation”. I rewound and replayed that bit several times so I’m pretty sure that’s what he said.
But that’s vague, guess I’ll have to try a couple different times to add it back in.
I heard a couple of people in the video mention a certain type of loaf that would have been baked in Europe for several hundred years. Was it a Gorbel or Gorbal loaf? Does anyone have a link to the recipe? Thank you!