Category Archives: Bread

Miche Pointe-à-Callière – Lost in Translation?

I am so happy to be baking with the Mellow Bakers!  Here we are starting on our May breads.  There is always some brave person making the bread first, and you can hang back and say, hmm,  that’s interesting, I see what happened there,….or if you feel like trail blazing, that’s OK too. It’s a grand way to bake. Thank you my friends out there!

A miche is a big bread – an oven hogging, flowing monster of a bread. I know the sort.   I have made one of Mick of Bethesdabakers miches and they are most definitely for sharing! I made a 900 gram mini version of this formula this time as B is not keen on strong sour flavoured whole wheat breads and I would be on my own eating this one.
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Pullman Bread tin from Mora

Look at my French pullman tin, which came all the way from Mora in Paris with Mike at Easter time. A long story involving old french francs and what to do with them…many thanks to Yolande too! I would love to go shopping there :)

Here it is having its first outing. It made a huge 1.5 kilo loaf of bread!

and here is the result. I think I had a bit too much dough as I got four little rabbit ears in the corners, but it worked beautifully. Once in a while I get tired of all those slashes and  organic forms and crave corners :)

Edit:

14th Jan 2011: The pullman tin has another outing in this post Pain de Mie and Melba Toast. Less dough in the tin this time!