Bread Day

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If you are following our Instagram feed @picklepatchgrdns we are sure you saw our post about today being bread making day. This is something that we love to do, but it has become quite hard to accomplish with two children who want to help. Instead of letting them help we let them "create" their own bread dough. This means they get to play with flour, water and whatever else they can convince us to let them put into their mixture. It is really great at letting them have some hands on sensory fun and keeping them occupied while we are trying to baby the dough. It is usually a great way to create a mess on the floor too, but they are getting better at that for sure. 

Today we are making 2 kinds of bread in hopes to perfect them enough to start selling in the 2019 season. First off is our Swiss Farmers bread. The recipe comes from Marc's mother who is..... a Swiss Farmer,  hence the clever name. Now it is not quite a good as hers since she has been perfecting it for over 30 years, but its getting close! 

This is a picture of the dough after its 1st 40min rise


We ended up with 2 loaves and 15 buns. They are a nice golden colour, but this picture has them looking a little blah!!


Our 2nd is a new sourdough bread we actually started a few days ago and it wont go into the oven until tomorrow. As you may recall we started a gluten free sourdough starter back in August. Over the past few months we created a separate white flour starter and a whole wheat starter. The new recipe we are trying called for a white flour starter so we revived that one from the fridge a few days ago and began to feed it and allow it to become active again. Today we felt like it was finally ready to go and we began the 24 process to bake sourdough
Here it is after the 1st step and 4 hour rest. After this we will add more flour and start the stretching and pulling process over the next 12 hours. Here's to hoping it turns out


Thank you for spending a little time with us today. Until Next time
Hayley and Marc




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