March 20, 2010 - 8:35am
White Sourdough & Dan Lepards Walnut Bread
As I have been nurturing a white flour offspring of my usual rye starter I thought i'd give it a test bake with a 100% Strong White loaf before using it with some expensive french flour result was fine and as I add very little salt it tasted like a salt free Tuscan bread i've had in the past. Not much sourdough flavour though. The other loaf is my 2nd bash at Dan Lepards excellent walnut loaf but this time I ommitted the dried yeast and did a 100% sourdough version. It worked fine and I had seen other TFL members had tried this. I halved the recipe so only made the one "Pave" shaped loaf which will be ideal with some cheese over the weekend. Partial loaves and compulsory crumbshots below!, cheers, Steve
Comments
The last time I put walnuts in bread, they stained the surrounding crumb purple. I wonder why that didn't happen with yours?
Paul
Hi Paul, please see below a link to the recipe kindly posted by Browndog, I reckon it's all down to the paste of walnuts, butter, water and honey added to the mix, do give this recipe a try if you like walnut bread. Only other thing, were you using fresh "wet" walnuts?. Cheers, Steve
http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/3570/dan-lepards-walnut-bread