My Boyfrind is always very happy, when I bake pain au chocolate for breakfast on sunday. I like crossinats more, but he loves them, but – and that’s important- they have to contain TWO bars of chocolate. He looked very suspiciously at the recipe for pain au chocolate in my copy of Bertinets “Crust” and declared it as wrong, because in this recipe the pain contains only ONE chocolatebar!

Steve of Bread cetera use two chocolatebars, too and his technique to roll them into the dough seems better then the one I used untill now. I always had the problem, that some of the pain au chocolate unfold in the oven again, so I used his methode this time.

When I roll the butter into the dough, I normally give the dough one hour to rest in the fridge between two rounds of rolling and folding, but this time I had some time pressure, so I decided to follow the recipe of “Crust” and reduce it to half an hour.

Not a good idea! Although I get a light interior, it was not so nice layered like normal. Next time, I will use the one hour cooling periode between the rolling again! Continue reading →

Neben den Saaten beinhaltet das Brot verschiedene Mehlsorten: weißes Weizenmehl, Vollkorn-Weizenmehl, Roggenmehl und Polenta. Leider leide ich unter einer Roggenunverträglichkeit, also habe ich die 50g Roggen durch Dinkel ersetzt.Die Polenta, die ich verwendet habe ist von Alnatura, und von einem so starken Gelb, dass man die Körnchen sogar noch im fertigen Brot erkennen kann. Bei der konventionellen Polenta, die ich bisher verwendet hatte, war die Farbe deutlich schwächer, aber mir gefällt die neue Variante besser.

My everyday bread is a simple whole grain bread, which I bake nearly every week. But from time to time I like some change on my plates, and then I bake another of my favorites: Seeded Bread from Bertinets “Crust” with some small adjustments.

The Seeds I prefere in this bread are rolled oats (Ok, thats not a seed, but its so delicous), sesame, poppy seeds and pumpkin seeds. Sometime I add flax seeds and sunflower seeds, too. But sunflower seeds ar rare in my breads, as long as my sweetheart is around, because in his surrounding sunflower seeds seldomly survive the time between buying them and baking bread.

There are diffrent flours in this bread, too: white wheatflour, whole grain flour, rye and corn flour. Because I am intolerant against rye, I subsitute it to Spelt. The organic corn flour that I used this time has a nice dark yellow colour, and its visible in the baked bread, what I like. With the non-organic corn flour I did not get this effect because its colour is much paler. Continue reading →