Yoghurt Bread

A wheat bread with rye sourdough and yoghurt. After making a few mainly rye breads with quite a few grains I decided to go with a 70/30 wheat/rye mix and no grains this time.Most of the flour is whole grain flour so it's not your typical white wheat bread.

Runner's Bread

A rye sourdough with multiple types of flour and grains that has the potential of being my new favorite. It is pretty easy to make, requires quite a few ingredients though: Four different types of flour and four different grains.

Farmer's Bread with Rye Flakes

Rye sourdough is the base for this 55/45 rye/wheat bread with a rye flake soaker and a bunch of rye flakes as decoration. It's relatively quick to make and results in a more wheaty bread with a nice rye flavor.

Nordic Rye

A very harty rye bread with sunflower and flax seeds. There is no actual rye flour in this bread, rather all of the rye comes as rye meal, in the sourdough as well as the soaker and the main dough - 400g (14 1/8 oz) of rye meal is used. Rounded up with some spelt flowers and sesame seeds on top. Exceptionally long kneading time, 50 minutes in total for the main dough. First recipe from my new book, my kind of bread..

Sunflower Seed Rye Sourdough

Also one of the earliest breads I made, probably my second and still one of my favorites. Very tasty rye bread that is easy to make for a beginner, but comes out like a bread you can buy at the bakery. Over 80% rye flour with a rye sourdough and sunflower seeds that are coarsely chopped before they go into the dough intensifying the sunflower flavor of the bread. There is very little wheat flour in the dough, which you can replace by spelt flour if you prefer that.

Bread #1

This is the recipe of the first bread I ever made. It's a 80/20 rye/wheat bread with rye sourdough with a wheat poolish. I bought a recipe book during my Christmas visit in Germany about 3 years ago and when I came back I tried out this recipe. I had never done anything like it before and had no equipment except a mixer. Instead of a banneton I used woven basket I had around and that didn't work all that well but good enough. Also, I didn't want to buy too many ingredients before I knew if I wanted to continue baking bread, so I used only whole grain rye flour, which works too. Texture and taste were so close to what I knew from when I lived back in Germany that I continued baking my own bread for the last 3 years and hardly ever buy a bread in the store. Very easy to make for a sourdough bread and only a few ingredients needed.

Graubrot

The typical German everyday bread: A wheat/rye mix with about equal amounts of the two flour types and made with rye sourdough. There are some variations in the ratio of course, this one is more on the rye side with a little bit of spelt flour to get a slightly more complex flavor; rye sourdough and wheat poolish, very little yeast is added, only to get the wheat poolish started.

Cracked Up Spelt Bread

An all whole grains bread with sourdough made from cracked wheat. Together with a soaker made with cracked rye there are actually more cracked grains in this bread than there is flour, which is whole grain spelt flour. Also, no additional yeast is added. Which means that the dough has to prove slightly longer than the usual. Decorated with sesame seeds the bread came out less dense than you'd think and is one of my new favorites.

Whole Grain Rye/Wheat

All the flour in this bread is whole grain flour, accompanied by soaked cracked wheat and rye as well as roasted sunflower and pumpkin seeds. Whole grain sourdough is the base for this originally nutty bread. Since I don't love breads with nuts I replaced them with a mix of roasted seeds. First time I tried this and it worked pretty well.

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.

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. ,-)

Multi-Grain Sourdough with Kamut

Seven different grains and seeds and four different types of flour go into this rye sourdough bread: Whole grain rye flour to make the sourdough; wheat, spelt and kamut flour in the main dough. A soaker made from pumpkin seeds, oat flakes, flax seeds and cracked wheat and rye provides some crunch. And finally sunflower seeds and rye flakes as decoration.

Flour, Water, Salt and Yeast

Only the most basic ingredients go into this sourdough bread: Flour, water, salt and yeast. And since this is 50/50 rye/wheat I decided to use 50/50 rye/wheat sourdough, as I did very successfully with the Sourdough Duo the week before.You can also make a bigger batch of one or the other type of sourdough. Total proving time on backing day is relatively long with around 5 1/2 hours, but there is one period of 4 hours where nothing else needs to be done, making the process easier to plan.