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Thank you, Paul

 

Thank you for a brilliant service, having ordered late Monday afternoon it arrived at lunch time Wednesday.

 

This morning I have made a 6 Seed loaf the way I usually make bread and it has just come out of the oven. It looks and smells terrific and we can't wait to try it.

 

You may be interested in the way I make my bread for other customers. I always use fresh yeast and buy a Kilo at a time. As soon as I get it home I crumble 12g into approx 30g (2 dessert spoons) of a ordinary bread flour and mix it up so that I have a dry crumbly mix, and put into a small plastic bag. I do this to approx 70% of the yeast so I have about 50 small bags i.e 1.5kg bag of flour. I then put all the small bags into a big bag and put them in the freezer.

I put the remaining yeast in the fridge just wrapped in the paper it came in. When it is gone I start using the yeast/flour mix in the freezer. I mix one bag with 100ml of water and or milk a very small pinch of sugar and leave it to start working. I then add it to the rest of the ingredients.

 

If I'm using fresh yeast I do the same, mix 12g with 30g flour mix with 100ml liquid and pinch of sugar and set aside to start working. I find that the mix that has been in the freezer takes a little longer to work.

 

Mixed in with the flour and frozen I find the yeast keeps for a couple of months, it may keep longer, I don't know, I've usually run out by then and started again.

 

I  use a cheap Bifinett bread maker to mix the dough, that takes approx 15 minutes, then I leave to to rise for 15 mins or so and then knead by hand for another 5 mins and then leave to rise before baking in the oven. I never use the bread maker to cook it.

 

Thank you again

 

Kind regards

Michael

Thank you to Michael for this one. It's a great idea but please do not try it with a delay progam.