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Pain Rustique…practice makes perfect!


We are still baking like crazy with our Rofco bread oven. This little box works miracles for bread. The hot stones make the bread live, open up, and rise till the roof! All the heat which is stored in the big stones is transmitted directly through the bottom of the dough turning it into bread. [...]

Bread, Figs and Roses


What a joy, when a like minded food lover not only brings her enthusiastic personality but also the most fragrant and freshest cheese, figs, herbs and roses to your door! Thank you Anya of Godful Food for sharing food and thoughts with us. We could offer some raspberry chocolate tart in return (recipe by Mr. [...]

Pain Rustique & Our New Spiral Mixer


We survived the chicken pox, we got our new spiral mixer and started baking again! The first two batches where two loaves of Pain Rustique which is our favourite recipe for a white yeast bread (see Jeffrey Hamelman and his excellent book Bread). With the second batch we made two loaves of sourdough using a [...]

More Bread


We are still baking bread. I have baked a white bread with a sort of nice slash pattern on the side of the bread and Ed has baked a 20 hour retarded (in the refrigerator) fermented bread with 20% whole wheat flour. Ed’s Pain Rustique – based on 50% poolish (6 hour fermentation) Ed’s Pain [...]

Baking Bread


We started baking bread like crazy again after a little break. The reason; we wanted to see if we also could bake great artisan breads. We also got fed up with fluffy tasteless supermarket breads. However, in our small oven we can only bake one bread at the time and never get the crusty crust [...]


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