It looks like wee will be veering into steamed breads for a bit. My wife prefers them and I like them well enough. Plus, being steamed, it’s no big deal to freshen them up by steaming them again, when they literally become freshly bread all over again!
The yellow one was a cornmeal batter that my wife wanted to try out, from a recipe online. My daughter and I mixed up the ingredients in the kitchenaid mixer bowl and we quickly realized that we should have just mixed it in the steaming bowl because this thing was a really slack batter!
80g all purpose flour (Central Milling)
100g cornmeal (Arrowhead)
80g water
40g starter
35g sugar
1 egg
After having poured out the batter, I felt it a shame to waste the kitchenaid bowl on nothing, so I went ahead and made a steamed bread of my own, wanting to test out a recipe with a nice elegant ratio of “5 flour : 3 water : 1 starter : .25 sugar” .
240g all purpose flour (Central Milling)
60g whole wheat flour (Montana Wheat)
180g water
60g starter
15g sugar
In all I think they both came out nicely and while my wife is interested in playing with different flours, I’m most likely going to just stay on the path I was previously headed, working in more and more whole wheat flour to see what I can max out on…just now steamed.
