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Afternoons for Wednesday 27 April 2016

Robert's sour dough bread recipe

Hi Jesse

This recipe is as easy as:

Flour of the variety to one's liking, approx 650g per loaf, seeds and spices (carraway is a good one), some half litre of lukewarm water and a pinch of salt. There is no need to be precise about these quantities, all you aim for is a reasonably sticky coherent texture, not too liquid. All is kneaded together by hand in a big bowl, that is the hard part and takes about 5 minutes.

The sourdough starter is a bacteria culture which lives in a small jar in the fridge, with the lid sitting loosely on top to allow breathing. Half gets diluted with hand-warm water and added to the dough.

The remainder of the starter culture stays in the jar and gets a bit of water and plain flour to make up for the volume loss. It can be divided and shared with other bakers, which is your insurance policy in case your own culture was to dry out or get contaminated by mould, which can happen if you are not meticulous with keeping your hands and used kitchen implements away from it.

The loaf moulds are filled to about 2/3 height and shoved into the oven on a middle position rack. The oven should be at a good room temperature or slightly above. In some ovens the trick is to leave the internal light on (without the fan! ) to achieve and maintain those warm and moist conditions the bacteria need to do their job.

That takes typically 12 hours, but it can be even longer if it's too cold. A "Do Not Disturb" sign at the oven door avoids the risen dough collapsing in the case of it getting exposed to vibration or cold draughts. It is very sensitive that way, and the moulds should not be touched until baking is complete.

Once the dough has risen to the top of the loaf moulds, the oven can be set to 200 C. Baking takes about 1 hour, depending on moisture content.

We use silicone moulds as the loaves come out easily immediately after the baking, without having to grease them too much, if at all.

If anyone wants some starter culture, they can email me under this address.

Cheers

Robert Weber

marcons60@hotmail.com

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2:20 Bookmarks - Nicky Pellegrino

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3:45 The Panel Pre-Show

What the world is talking about, with Jesse Mulligan and Zara Potts.

Music played in this show

 

JESSE'S SONG:

 

ARTIST:         Neko Case, KD Lang, Laura Viers

TITLE:             Honey and Smoke

COMP:           Neko Case, KD Lang, Laura Viers

ALBUM:         Case/Lang/Viers

LABEL:          Download

 

FEATURE ALBUM:

 

ARTIST:         Marlon Williams

TITLE:             Hello Miss Lonesome

COMP:           Marlon Williams

ALBUM          Marlon Williams

LABEL           Dead Oceans

 

ARTIST:         Marlon Williams

TITLE:             Dark Child

COMP:           Marlon Williams

ALBUM          Marlon Williams

LABEL           Dead Oceans

 

ARTIST:         Marlon Williams

TITLE:             Lonely Side of Her

COMP:           Marlon Williams

ALBUM          Marlon Williams

LABEL           Dead Oceans

 

BOOKMARKS: NIcky Pellegrino:    

 

ARTIST:         Mario Lanza  (Feat: Luisa Di Meo)

TITLE:             Arrivederci Roma

COMP:           Renato Rascel, Pietro Garinei, Sandro Giovannini

ALBUM:         Seven Hills of Rome - Motion Picture Soundtrack

LABEL:          MGM

 

ARTIST:         Gerry and the Pacemakers

TITLE:             You'll Never Walk Alone

COMP:           Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II

ALBUM:         Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying

LABEL:          Columbia

 

ARTIST:         Bic Runga

TITLE:             Beautiful Collision

COMP:           Bic Runga

ALBUM:         Beautiful Collision

LABEL:          Columbia

 

THE PANEL: HALFTIME SONG     

 

ARTIST:         Warren Zevon

TITLE:             Keep Me In Your Heart      

COMP:           Jorge Calderón, Warren Zevon

ALBUM:         The Wind      

LABEL:          Artemis