Whole Seven Grains

Seven different grains are used to make this sourdough bread. Three different whole grain flours - rye, wheat and spelt - and a soaker made from sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, flax seeds and oat flakes. The rye sourdough is also made from whole grain flour, but that is quite normal for me, I simply always make my rye sourdough with whole grain flour.

Dark Beer Stump

I made breads with short ingredients lists before, this is basically water, flour, salt and yeast again. Just... there is no water, all the liquid comes from a dark beer. No poolish or soaker, so this bread can be made in just a few hours with very little efford. I made it 60/40 wheat/rye, but you can also make it 100% wheat if you prefer or don't have rye flour around. One of the very few breads I made without sourdough. Makes two small breads.

Whole Grain Spelt Sourdough

Originally 100% spelt I changed the recipe quite a bit and made it a spelt/wheat/rye bread. Partially because I think pure spelt breads taste a little dryer, partially because I can't find cracked spelt in the shops and of course because I like the taste of rye. All flour used is whole grain, including the sourdough, which is a whole grain spelt sourdough.

Sesame Rolls

I love German bread rolls, so I made a batch of sesame rolls with wheat, rye and spelt flour. Rolls and German bread is what I'm missing the most since I move to the US almost 10 years ago. Since I started baking my own bread that part is solved, however making bread rolls is a lot more difficult to time right, as most recipes require quite long fermentation times and - other then bread - rolls are the best just a few minutes after they come out of the oven, so timing is a lot more crucial. I finally got it together to make another batch of rolls, and as each time I made some, the taste is awesome.

Hunter's Bread

A 2:1 rye:spelt sourdough bread - about one third of the total amount of flour is in the sourdough - with some cracked wheat. It's really tasty, but of course the main reason for me to do it was that I wanted to try out if I can get the decoration to work. I think it came out really nice, but cutting out the stencil took me quite some time.

Olive Levain

A very short ingredients list and a lot of fermentation time leads to this olive sourdough bread: All wheat flour - mainly white and some whole grain - water, salt and olives is all that goes in here. No is yeast added, only wild yeast is doing the work. Because of that  it takes about 48 hours start to finish to make it - including making the sourdough from starter. Not exactly the German style bread I usually make, but at least I got the recipe from a German recipe book. ;-)

Vitalis

Once more I made a bread with two sourdoughs, rye and wheat in equal amounts. I like doing that on occasion recently when I make a bread that is around 50/50 rye/wheat flour. This time all the flour (except in the wheat sourdough) is whole grain flour; and of course some grains and seeds round it all up, in this case rye meal, sunflower seeds and oat flakes.

Rye Sourdough with Beer Soaked Kamut

Kamut flour is soaked in Pilsener beer over night and added to rye sourdough and 50/50 rye/wheat flour. It seems beer breads always turn out great, and so did this one. It shows that 4 different types of flour and a few proving periods make for a really good bread and there is no need to add any additional flavoring. OK, besides the beer that is in this case. ;-)

Grain Gourmet

There are more gains in this spelt sourdough bread than there is flour, in fact twice as much. Besides sunflower seeds, the grains are cracked wheat, cracked rye as well as spelt flakes which soaked for 16 hours. Originally 100% spelt flour, I changed the recipe to be 50/50 spelt/rye flour.

Rye Malt Sourdough

I use rye malt powder for coloring sometimes but this recipe for a 80/20 rye/wheat sourdough bread has more than twice the usual amount intensifying the rye flavor a little bit more. According to the original author of the recipe this happened by accident caused by a distraction during preparation. Like many of humanity's discoveries made by pure coincidence. ,-)