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Lazy arse method of making bread (if you don't have a breadmaking machine)

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    #41
    Originally posted by SimonMac View Post
    Had a fair bit of success with sourdough starters (after a few false starts as the house wasn't warm enough), once I cracked it I got bored as we don't eat a lot of bread in the house so a loaf every other day was wasteful
    That's my issue. I do like bread but I don't eat it very often so making even one loaf a week can be a waste. I am successfully maintaining a starter though as my sourdough doughnuts were ace! I almost wish I had a proper fryer as it's a faff doing deep fat frying in a saucepan.

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      #42
      Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
      That's my issue. I do like bread but I don't eat it very often so making even one loaf a week can be a waste. I am successfully maintaining a starter though as my sourdough doughnuts were ace! I almost wish I had a proper fryer as it's a faff doing deep fat frying in a saucepan.
      I put my starter into hibernation at the back of the fridge and get it out once every couple of weeks (or longer).

      You don't need to muck about with starter every day.
      "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
      - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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        #43
        Originally posted by cojak View Post
        I put my starter into hibernation at the back of the fridge and get it out once every couple of weeks (or longer).

        You don't need to muck about with starter every day.
        I know - I'm still experimenting with it though

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          #44
          Originally posted by Pogle View Post
          Gave it a go, tasty but not worth the effort of hand making, might try it in the bread machine
          Growing old is mandatory
          Growing up is optional

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            #45
            Are we all still baking? My sourdough starter died and I never bothered trying to resurrect it.

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              #46
              A true Lazy arse doesn't bother to make anything.
              bloggoth

              If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
              John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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                #47
                Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
                Are we all still baking? My sourdough starter died and I never bothered trying to resurrect it.
                Oh yes, I put a bit of my starter in the freezer but I’ve just got myself a yellow tin of Allinson’s yeast so am using that.

                Still haven’t given the Japanese bread a go yet though (I might try that in a day or two).
                "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
                - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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                  #48
                  Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
                  Are we all still baking? My sourdough starter died and I never bothered trying to resurrect it.
                  Only pizza dough, don't eat enough bread to bother with other stuff. Use the poolish cold ferment up to 48 hrs. Bit faffy but superb results. Also sick of sourdough appearing everywhere, its sour FFS!
                  But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the younger

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                    #49
                    Oh, I’d forgotten my pizza dough! I make them every week or two.

                    I was outraged when Asda doubled the price of their pizza mix by only having a single mix bag instead of a double mix box, so I decided to make it myself and found that it only took a little longer to make than the Asda version and it’s much nicer, so stuff ‘em.

                    (I can’t be arsed with poolish for pizzas, I just do that for bread.)
                    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
                    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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                      #50
                      Over lock down made all my bread, yay for having a bread machine
                      Growing old is mandatory
                      Growing up is optional

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