Bread and Stitches

Just a quick post, to give you an idea of the current project. This one’s the one I blogged about a while ago, and the one which is consuming most of my time … at least, when I’m knitting.

  1. s1, k1, *k*, k2
  2. s1, k1, *k2tog*, k2
  3. s1, k1, *k into front and back of each stitch*, k2
  4. s1, k1, *p*, k2

So, the stitch (again) is to K | K2TOG | KTF&B | P across whole rows (see the previous post to get a nicer description). It ends up looking quite pretty, but it’d help if I could actually remember where I was in the pattern (note the several rows of plain old K | P in towards the top – I was in a meeting & kind of paying attention to people talking, instead of keeping track of where I was). I figure I’ve just got to remember to do this again, every 5 repeats or so … yeah right! It’s just going to end up being random, I guess.

We have given in to the temptation to bake … and eat … and are in the process of experimenting with sourdough combined with fiber. We’re trying to hide as much fiber in sourdough as possible, while disguising it as “regular” sourdough. So far, oat bran seems to be the winner. It’s quite light in color, so it hides in there very well, and we’ll know about the texture tomorrow when we try it out on a friend of ours.

Of course, we found the “plain” bread a bit difficult, as we’re used to adding more along the lines of the following (which is my “basic” recipe, in descending order of quantity):

  • Whole Wheat Flour
  • Water
  • Unbleached Flour
  • Flax Seeds
  • Oat Bran
  • Molasses
  • Honey
  • Wheat Germ
  • Quinoa Flour
  • Yeast
  • Salt

However, it’s much more fun to play with this stuff, that’s for sure. There’s not a chance in the world that you can do “bread art” with anything which is nearly 1/3 fiber … so, this is a nice change, and if it means we can add another bread to our repertoire … it’s only a good thing. Except, of course, that we’ve made four small loaves in the past two days, and all we’ve left is one small one … and that’s to share. Sigh. It’s vacation, right?

4 Replies to “Bread and Stitches”

  1. Thank you thank you!

    Just to note: the maximum amount of Okara which can be added to one medium loaf of wheat/white bread is 1 cup. More than that (and that’s how we ended up with a medium loaf) and you can’t get gluten to form.

    We ended up having to “feed the baby crack” in order to get gluten to form (“crack” being Unbleached Flour) after we’d added that cup of Okara.

    So.

    I suppose we could have just added straight Gluten to it, huh? Would’ve made life easier. Wonder what that would’ve tasted like….

  2. I’m sorry, I thought that you only did add 1 c. of okara to the dough. It was meant to be 1/3 of the whole, was it not? Initially I thought that 1/3 c. would work best, but I wasn’t sure. How much did you use total?

  3. I did add 1 cup. I’d intended to make a small loaf, though, remember? I’d used 1 cup of starter, and then to add 1 cup of Okara meant that I had to add another cup of starter. So, really, we ended up with a medium / large loaf instead of a nice small loaf.

    Test loaves are supposed to be small….

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