Time to Make Some Bread

So, you have been feeding your starter, signs of life are visible, it’s rising and falling predictably… time to make some bread.

Let’s look at this process through two different lenses.

Simply: bread is flour, water, and salt. The dough by nature can be quite forgiving. Throw in a little muscle memory and the visual appeal emerges as well. Conversely, bread is complex. From the molecular level to the baker’s hands, many processes are occurring simultaneously, and it’s our job to monitor them. Increase your dough volume and you can have quite a formidable opponent. The beauty of baking is that you can use whichever lens you’d like. From a bird’s eye view or through a microscope, you will get a tasty loaf.

Now, on to the mix. Let’s brainstorm a recipe. We begin with our yield, how big of a loaf do we want? Let’s shoot for a 700 gram total, a well-sized loaf of bread. With a yield in mind, we begin measuring out our ingredients. If you have a scale, follow the measurements in grams. If not, I will try to provide accurate cup conversations.

Measurements in Grams:

Flour- 365 grams
Water- 255 grams
Levain (Starter)- 73 grams
Salt- 7 grams

Measurements in Cups (Approximate):

Flour- 2 and 2/3 Cups
Water- 1 cup and about 1 1/2 tablespoons
Levain (Starter)- Slightly less than 2/3 Cups
Salt- About 1 and 1/2 teaspoons

Before discussing method, let’s break down this recipe a bit. Flour always comprises most of the loaf. I would suggest using bread flour if you can get your hands on it, a generally stronger (higher protein) flour than all purpose. Of course, all purpose will do just fine. I also suggest that 15% of your 365 grams of flour is whole wheat. Whole wheat flour, rich in vitamins, minerals, and nutrients, adds flavor complexity and can aid in fermentation. Once again, no whole wheat? No problem.

Why 265 Grams of water? This brings your loaf to 70% hydration. I wouldn’t call that necessarily high hydration nor low hydration. It kind of skirts the middle line, a great hydration for practice, and should yield a nice open crumb.

73 Grams of starter means that 20% of your bread is composed of Levain. Why such a specific number? Well it’s a fairly high percentage of Levain for a loaf of bread. Yet, this is taking into account that most starters aren’t fed twice daily every day. We could say this is aiding our chances of good fermentation.

As a general rule of thumb, salt comprises 2%-2.5% of the loaf. It serves two essential functions: tightening gluten and helping to curb fermentation.

Now let’s examine the method. Bread making involves the following steps- mixing, autolyse, bulk fermentation, pre-shape and bench rest, final proof and bake. There are so many ways to approach each of these steps. The following information will provide only the basics but from these basics, I hope thoughtful and fun experimentation can take place.

Mixing- With your flour and water scaled, pour water into a mixing bowl and place 73 grams of your starter in the water, proceed to break the Levain apart with your hands. Then, we add flour. When mixing we are not looking to develop gluten, we are simply hydrating the flour. By this, I mean we are mixing until no dry flour remains. Get your hands in that dough! Be patient, at 70% hydration it may seem like the dough won’t come together, don’t add water. Keep mixing and before you know it you’ll have a well incorporated shaggy ball of flour water and Levain. We now autolyse.

Autolyse (Auto-lease)- Perhaps the easiest of the steps. We are simply letting the flour, water, and levain sit for 45 minutes before incorporating salt. Why? Well a few crucial things are happening during this stage. Flour is absorbing the water-becoming a more cohesive mass and enzymes naturally present are starting to break down the flour and free up sugar for the microbes. After about 45 minutes it’s time to add salt to the dough. Place your 7 grams of salt on top of the dough. We add a small, emphasis on small, amount of water at this point to help the salt breakdown. For this recipe let’s say we are adding 14 grams of water to the dough. Proceed to push the salt down into the dough matrix with your hands, don’t be afraid to really explore the dough. Pick it up, put it down, squeeze it, stretch it out on itself. At this point the dough feels completely different, well it feels more like a dough, the salt is doing its job.

Bulk Fermentation- The bulk refers to the hours that follow where we are allowing the dough to prove in its container. During the bulk we fold our bread.. stretching and strengthening the gluten, refining its ability to capture the air produced from your yeast. Strengthening gluten throughout the bulk seems to be a generally better approach than “kneading” or developing all your gluten at the very start. Why? Well by keeping our hands in the dough over a period of time we can constantly monitor and judge its state of fermentation. To say that you will be bulking your dough for X amount of hours is a very generic statement. There are so many factors at play, flour composition, water temperature, dough hydration, room temperature and starter strength to name a few.

Assuming that your starter is not being rigorously maintained, I am going to suggest a longer bulk fermentation, 5 hours. 30 minutes into your bulk and it’s time for the first fold, all folds occur in your container. I think it’s helpful to try and view your dough as a square. We begin by wetting our hands and then pulling the top half up into the air- stretching the dough (try and be weary of tears that appear, this becomes increasingly important as your dough continues to prove). Bring this half back towards you, placing it about halfway through your square. Rotate the dough 180 degrees and repeat, rotate the dough 90 degrees and repeat, and lastly rotate the dough 180 degrees for the final stretch. You have at this point brought all four sides of the dough into its center, tightening the gluten and creating tension. The final step here would be to flip the dough, literally flip it, so that the center of tension you have created is now under the dough, allowing it to better retain said tension. This process is referred to as a four-point fold. Let your dough rest for 30 minutes then give it another 4 point fold. Now 1 hour into the bulk we will spread the folds out more. Fold at the 2 hour mark, 3 hour mark, and 4 hour mark. The dough will then relax for 1 hour before we pre-shape and bench rest.

Pre-shape and Bench Rest- We can view this stage as a final preparation for shaping our bread. Release your dough from its bowl (or whatever proofing vessel was used) onto a floured work surface. The idea here is that we are going to create a round shape. Now, gingerly pick your floured dough up and transfer to a non-floured work surface (floured side down!). In order for the dough to come together it needs to stick at least partially to the surface you are working on.. this is how tension is created. It is a difficult motion to describe via text but with both hands on the dough (sort of in a 10-2 driving wheel position) imitate the motion of a clock. Pick a direction, and work your hands in a circular motion. Do not over think this step, if you feel that the dough has been slightly tightened and its in a semi-round shape, cover it with a paper towel and leave it! On your first attempt this motion will feel awkward but with a little practice and repetition tightening dough really becomes second nature.

We have now established what part of the dough will be the inside of your loaf (the side touching your work surface) and what will be the crust (the side exposed to the air). Next, we are going to bench rest the dough. It will remain, with your paper towel, on the work surface for 20-30 minutes. This allows the dough to relax a little before shaping.

Final Shape and Proof- Your first shape will most likely look funny. That is okay, the muscle memory isn’t there yet, keep working at it. A visually unappealing loaf always tastes delicious.

Remove the paper towel, flour the top of your bread (once again this will be the crust) and flour a portion of your work surface. The next step is aided by a bench knife but can be done gently with your hands… flip the dough over into your floured work area. The side of the dough now facing you is the inside of your bread and should not be floured. Like when we were folding, I think its useful to try and view the dough as a 4 sided square. Take the dough’s top half and bring it into the middle. At this point it will look a bit like a V. Take the top right corner of this V and stretch it further to the right. Be conscious of the fact that your dough now has air in it, it will be less willing to stretch out so don’t force it. Take this right Corner and bring it back to the top left corner of your dough. Repeat this same step but with that left corner of your dough. Stretch it out further to the left and bring it over (it will fall on top of) to the right corner. At this point your dough should really look like a rectangle.

The final motion here is rolling the dough, top down, until the side on top meets the bottom side. Where these two sides meet is the seam. This becomes important when transferring your dough to its final resting place.

At this point you should have something resembling a loaf of bread. We now transfer the loaf to our banneton bread baskets, this helps hold all the structure you have created with your dough. If you do not have a banneton it is absolutely okay, I used a big round bowl for a long time. Just note the dough will spread out as it proves. This will create more of a round shape instead of a batard shape. Whatever vessel you use, flour it to prevent sticking. Rice flour works the absolute best for this, at the bakery we use a blend of whole wheat and rice flour.

Now you can either place your loaf seam side down in the basket or seam side up. If you have a razor blade and want to try your hand at scoring, cutting the bread thoughtfully and allowing it to expand, place your dough seam side up. If you do not have a razor blade, and I mean it when I say that there is no substitute when scoring, place your loaf seam side down in the basket. I’ll explain either option a little more when discussing the bake.

You’ve shaped your bread, it’s in its basket or bowl, now it has one more proof before baking, this makes up for the degassing that occurs during shaping. You have two final proofing options, ambient or retarded. Ambient means that the dough is left out at room temperature, about 2 hours into this process it should be ready to bake. Retarded means you have placed your dough in the fridge, it will rest and proof overnight before baking. Note, that if you use the retarded method, you will likely need to let your dough proof in the morning. Most home fridges are too cold to facilitate activity.

What does a proofed dough feel like? Another piece of the process that is very hard to get right. It will take baking under-proofed and over-proofed bread for you to get a sense. I can say that if your bread is under-proofed, it will almost feel like touching a balloon, extremely taught. A proofed loaf offers a very different sensation, it’s soft, you can feel the air that the yeast has worked so hard to create.

The Bake- so there is no substitution for a razor blade, I would say that is equally true for a Dutch Oven, it is an essential tool. Why? Steam is a crucial piece of the bake, it allows your bread to rise without the crust hardening before the bread has reached its full potential. There are a variety of steam tactics you can try in your home oven, but the closed system of the Dutch Oven essentially lets the dough steam itself. It really works wonders.

When you feel that the dough is almost ready to bake, about 30 minutes out, it is time to preheat both your oven and Dutch Oven. Crank it to 500 degrees, the importance of creating and preserving heat cannot be overstated.

Okay, your oven rang out that it’s ready, remove the Dutch Oven. When baking bread, you are essentially flipping the dough out of its basket.

If you have a razor blade- Your loaf was placed into the basket seam side up, thus when you flip it into the Dutch Oven the seam will land on the bottom. The issue here is that the bread has no where to go as it rises. If we didn’t have a razor blade it would tear in some places and generally not reach its full potential. This is why we score, we create and control through scoring a pathway for the bread to rise. Scoring takes a lot of practice. I think the most fundamental thing I have learned is that when taking the razor blade to your loaf, place it at as sharp of an angle as you can, and when cutting the bread, cut as shallow as possible while still opening the bread up. This prevents you from cutting into all of the air and structure that has been built. Once scored, cover the Dutch Oven and put it back into your oven. Set a timer for 20 minutes.

If you do not have a razor blade– Your loaf was placed into the basket seam side down, thus when you flip it into the Dutch Oven the seam will land on the top. In this instance, the seam will act as your score. Without even cutting the dough, your bread will have an avenue to follow while giving its last breath in the oven. Place, covered, back into the oven and set a timer for 20 minutes.

Keep your oven at 500 degrees for the first 10 minutes of the bake. Bring it down to 480 degrees for the next 10 minutes. 20 minutes in and you will now remove the top of your Dutch Oven and gaze upon the fruition of your hard work. The final 15-20 minutes are all about the Maillard reaction, where sugars present in the crust create color. I personally suggest a dark bake to anyone. It is exactly the same as adding char to your steak on the grill. Color, and a nice range of color, creates a lot of flavor.

Something to keep in mind, while the Dutch Oven absolutely solves the problem of steam it does burn the bottom of your bread very quickly. I have recently gotten into the habit of, when baking at home, actually removing my loaf from the Dutch oven for its final 15-20 minutes. Another option is to just bake it lighter, but you will miss out on flavor complexity.

I truly hope that this was helpful. I wanted to provide readers with information that I would have found essential when I was baking at home. I tried to go as deep as possible for this blog post but there are plenty of things I missed out on or would have liked to explain deeper but lacked the words. So to compensate I will suggest my three favorite bread books, books filled to the brim with information regarding this crazy craft. The Sourdough School by Vanessa Kimbell, Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish, and lastly, if the theory piece of this stuff interests you, Open Crumb Mastery by Trevor J. Wilson (e-book).

That’s all for now,

Eli

Influencing Your Starter

It is almost time to have a discussion regarding the transformation from starter to bread– a mixture of art, repetition, intuition, and scientific process.

Before this can happen, however, we must look back to the starter.

As we’ve mentioned before, all roads lead back to the starter. Have a loaf you’re unhappy with? The root of this problem most likely lies in the fact that you are cultivating wild yeast and bacteria- unruly specimens!

The baker is able to influence and control these microbes via three variable elements in the process:

1. flour type/combination
2. starter hydration/water temperature
3. seed size/feeding schedule.

(A quick disclaimer: we seek to provide guidelines and context to help you in your bread journey- not hard rules. Making bread is a very personal process, and there are many approaches. )

Flour Type and Combination

Certain flours simply encourage more microbe activity than others. Whole wheat flour, which contains all the pieces of a wheat grain (bran, germ, and endosperm), will serve as a greater food source than, say, white bread or all purpose flour, which contain only the endosperm (mostly just starch).

Rye flour, rich in vitamins, minerals, and nutrients, is particularly effective in encouraging microbe activity.

Many bakers favor a mixture of flour to maintain their starters. I personally find that a 50/50 combination of regular bread or all purpose flour and whole wheat flour yields great results. However, if you can’t get your hands on whole wheat or rye flour right now, its perfectly okay. Remember, the starter will persevere!

Starter Hydration and Water Temperature

The manipulation of water is crucial in bread baking. After all, water ends up comprising a large portion of both your starter and your loaf.

Hydration refers to the amount of water used in proportion to flour. 100% hydration indicates the use of equal parts flour and water, whereas 70% hydration indicates the water volume is 70% that of the flour.

Water encourages activity– a wetter a dough or starter will most likely be more active. Thus, in theory, a starter can be maintained purposefully at higher hydrations to encourage the life cycle, or conversely at lower hydrations in order to slow the process. Our typical hydration is 100% when feeding our starter.

Water temperature is also crucial. Feeding your starter with warm water, (78-80 degrees) encourages a much faster feeding and reproductive cycle than cool water (70-73 degrees), and faster is not always better. Especially now that we are entering summer, bakers will be mixing their starters with cooler water. This point becomes more crucial when transitioning from starter to bread, a topic we will visit later.

Seed Size and Feeding Schedule

As we noted in the previous post, “seed” refers to the portion of starter added to your fresh mixture of flour and water. The amount of seed you carry over into your starter has a huge impact on the life cycle. The more seed, the more microbes. Want your already established starter to be ready to bake with in 4-5 hours? Try feeding with equal parts seed, flour, water, indicated numerically as 1:1:1. Intend on a more balanced approach? I often feed my starter at 1:4:4. This indicates my seed is 25% of the total flour weight or water weight, or 12.5% of the total mixture weight.

If you can recall the last post, we discussed how acid builds up in your starter as a natural byproduct of the life cycle. Because of this, we must always be conscious of how much seed we are bringing over into our starter or into our bread. While that seed contains microbes, it also contains spent flour (flour consumed by yeast and bacteria) and acid. Carrying these things over is inevitable, and every once and a while using a high seed percentage it totally okay. In general however, in keeping a healthy starter, bakers try to limit their seed size.

The final point of this blog post deals with an extremely simple notion. Feeding your starter more regularly will encourage a faster and more active life cycle. The starter at the joint bakery is fed twice daily, and that is the routine I follow at home as well. However, because it cannot be overstated, the starter is resilient. It does not need to be fed even daily to create a tasty loaf of bread, though that is our recommendation for a baker seeking an open crumb!

Stay tuned for our next post, as we continue our journey toward the final loaf.

-Eli

Bread FAQ – bread storage & using starter

Whether you’re baking at home using materials from the joint pantry, or picking up fresh loaves for the week, we get a lot of questions about how to stock up on and enjoy fresh bread.

Q: How should I store my bread?

A: Don’t refrigerate! You can store bread on the counter in its paper bag until you’re ready to slice and enjoy- this will preserve moisture and crust texture.

Q: What if I don’t plan to finish the whole loaf, or want to buy/make multiple loaves for the week?

A: The best long-term storage for bread is FREEZING. You can store loaves you plan to enjoy later in the freezer. When you’re ready for fresh bread, just thaw at room temperature, preheat oven to 400 degrees, rub water lightly over the bread and pop it in the oven for 10 minutes! You can also store half loaves and slices. Slices can be freshened up in the toaster!

Q: I’m planning to eat my bread tomorrow, so I don’t want to freeze it, but I don’t want to leave it out either.

A: In this case, you can store your bread at room temperature in an airtight container, and refresh before eating as described above.

Q: I’m learning to bake at home- how do I prepare my starter before baking?

A: The night before you plan to make the dough, feed your culture sample with 100g bread flour, 100g whole wheat flour, and 200g warm (78 degrees) water. Cover with a kitchen towel. Let rest in a cool, dark place for 10-16 hours. To test leaven’s readiness, drop a spoonful into a bowl of room-temperature water. If it sinks, it is not ready and needs more time to ferment and ripen. As it develops, the smell will change from ripe and sour to sweet and pleasantly fermented; when it reaches this stage, it’s ready to use.

See our previous post for full details on creating your own starter at home!

all about starter

All Roads Lead Back to the Starter

A baker’s true skill lies in their ability to understand and manage fermentation. For everyone, from home baker to professional, this begins with a starter. In the pursuit of creating naturally leavened bread with complex flavor and a moist open crumb, the importance of starter health is impossible to overstate. All roads lead back to the starter.

So what is it? A starter is a mixture of flour and water. That’s it. Yeast and bacteria will naturally flock to this environment you have created for them and, after some time, develop a symbiotic relationship. A miniature world is created.

It is however, a closed system, sugars will be eaten and acid will be created as a byproduct. Eventually, the miniature world will run out of resources. This is why bakers must “feed” their starter.

Starter Creation and General Maintenance (Feeding)

Common knowledge states that it will be about 2 weeks before your mixture of flour and water can leaven dough.

Begin by mixing equal parts flour and water, say a 1/2 cup of flour with a 1/2 cup of water. Leave this mixture to sit and ferment at room temperature for 3-4 days. At this point, your starter will be showing signs of life. It is time to feed.

In the most basic sense, when feeding your starter most of it should be discarded. Why? As previously mentioned, sugars are consumed and acid is created leaving the environment inhospitable.

From this mixture, take merely a tablespoon and throw away the rest. This is referred to as your “seed”. This “seed” will now be mixed with, once again, a 1/2 cup of flour and a 1/2 cup of water. The yeast and bacteria that have began to manifest now have new sugars to consume and a mostly acid free environment to live in and reproduce.

Continue this routine, taking a mere tablespoon from your starter and providing it with equal parts flour and water everyday for the next week or so. Upon reaching the 2 week mark, your starter should be ready to do what its made for- creating delicious bread.

At this point, it is important to note that these microbiomes we create, they are incredibly resilient. Forget to feed your starter these past few days? It will survive. Going on vacation for 2 weeks? Throw it in the fridge. Yes, it will survive.

At the end of the day, it is up to you. You can be incredibly involved in the health and maintenance of your starter, feeding it twice a day seeking the most open of crumbs. It can also be a bit of an afterthought. Feed it once a week, and keep it in the fridge, It will still leaven dough.

xoxo,
A Baked Joint Bread Team

yes, we (breakfast) cater

big news: we just launched breakfast catering!

build your breakfast from our selection of fresh-baked, locally sourced menu items: we’ll include everything you need to feed your people & get back to business.

if you’re in our delivery radius, we’ll drop off your order with our shiny new bike & trailer. if you’re outside our radius, you can still pick up at the shop!

delivery/pick-up is available weekdays from 7:30-11:00.

head on over to www.abakedjoint.com/catering to check out our menu & place your order!

fall extended hours

we’re switching to our fall hours!

starting monday 10/1, we’ll be open:

monday7am-6p
tuesday: 7am-6p
wednesday: 7am-6p
thursday: 7am-10p
friday: 7am-10p
saturday: 8am-6p
sunday: 8am-6pm

we’re extending weekday hours to 6pm, so swing by and grab a loaf of bread on your way home!

coffee lessons w/ henry: cappuccino!

we’re launching a new series: COFFEE LESSONS w/ henry rosh, our resident *coffee manager*

first up: the cappuccino

the breakdown: cappuccinos are equal parts espresso, milk and foam (⅓, ⅓, ⅓)

many of the names for coffee drinks come to us from Italian, where they are terms of utility. espresso comes from the Italian word that means “pressed-out,” which explains how the drink is made; macchiato is short for “caffe macchiato,” which means “coffee with a spot (of milk).” but cappuccino bucks the trend: it comes from an Italian word that refers not to coffee, but to friars.

‘cappuccino’ takes its name from the Capuchin friars: the color of the espresso mixed with frothed milk was similar to the color of the Capuchin robe. It is from this that the word cappuccino originates as the espresso is served ‘cloaked’ in milk. the Capuchin friars are members of the larger Franciscan orders of monks, and their order was founded in the 16th century in Italy.

though an Italian word, there is enough evidence around to suggest that the Germans adopted and then adapted it. some link the term’s origin to Marco d’Aviano, a Capuchin monk who was a confidant of the Austrian emperor Leopold I in the 1680s. the first coffee shops in Vienna appeared about this time, but the term Kapuziner for coffee was not recorded until later. One example is a recipe for “Capuzinerkaffee” by the German “Wilhelm Tissot”, published in 1790. the coffee is boiled, then mixed with cream, sugar and spices and boiled again before being poured over egg whites and yolks and whisked.

Italian experts accept that German-speakers took their word and applied it to coffee, but insist that the cappuccino we know is an Italian drink – and they are right to do so. the modern cappuccino is the result of development through the 20th Century of machines to make espresso, to heat and to foam milk, and for most of that we have the Italians to thank. what we would refer to as a cappuccino today truly took off in popularity after World War II and the simple drink of espresso and foamed milk has gone on to become a permanent fixture on the menu boards of coffee shops all over the world.

bread flavor pairings 101

Sam (one of our fantastic bread bakers) recently came up a comprehensive list of potential pairings for our breads based on their individual flavor profiles.

check out the full list below & try some for yourself – we’re particularly interested in the quinoa turmeric sourdough + peanut butter, cilantro, & hot sauce!

country sourdough

  • pork
  • roast beef
  • eggs
  • sardines
  • cheeses: parmesan, romano, gruyere, cheddar
  • roasted red peppers
  • sun-dried tomatoes
  • caramelized onions
  • avocado
  • pinot noir
  • IPAs and pilsners

whole wheat sourdough

  • eggs
  • avocado
  • cheeses: sharp cheddar, cream cheese, feta
  • nutella
  • bacon
  • hummus
  • rosé
  • wheat ale, brown ale, hard cider

polenta rosemary sourdough

  • wine braised short ribs
  • bordeaux blends, cabernet sauvignon
  • sautéed mushrooms
  • parmesan
  • balsamic vinegar
  • pale ales, american lagers, hefeweizen

seeded wheat

  • arugula
  • grilled chicken
  • cheeses: swiss, gruyere, sharp cheddar, chive cream cheese
  • butter
  • amber ale, hard cider
  • citrus or berry based jams

quinoa turmeric

  • hummus
  • labneh
  • cheeses: cream cheese, cottage cheese, mild Brie
  • merlot or chardonnay
  • grilled chicken
  • peanut butter, cilantro, & hot sauce
  • balsamic vinegar
  • lentils
  • IPAs, pilsners, sours

sesame semolina 

  • tomatoes
  • garlic
  • roasted red peppers
  • cream cheese and honey
  • teriyaki chicken
  • grilled leeks
  • sake, riesling, syrah
  • tahini, thai basil, and sriracha

raisin walnut 

  • cheeses: sharp cheddar, brie, gruyere, cream cheese
  • riesling, ruby port
  • hard cider, brown ales, porters, wheat beers
  • nutella
  • cinnamon

chocolate cherry 

  • nutella
  • tawny port, riesling, viognier, madeira
  • porters and stouts
  • espresso
  • maple bacon

updated daily bread schedule: summer 2018

 

heads up: we updated our bread schedule! we shuffled around our daily rotation and a couple of your faves are now available everyday

grab a loaf for dinner (or just grab a baguette and eat it on the way home)

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BREAD

everyday: baguette, country sourdough, focaccia, rosemary polenta, seeded wheat, whole wheat sourdough, quinoa turmeric, multigrain, pain de mie

m: kalamata olive rosemary

tu: sesame semolina

w: chocolate cherry sourdough

th: golden raisin walnut

f: chocolate cherry sourdough, challah

sa: sesame semolina

su: golden raisin walnut

PASTRIES

everyday: butter croissant, chocolate croissant, scones, turnovers

m: ham & cheese croissant

tu: cinnamon buns, spinach & feta croissant

w: poppy seed croissant, kougin amman

th: ham & cheese croissant

f: spinach & feta croissant, kougin amman

sa: pain aux raisin, cinnamon buns

su: pain aux raisin, cinnamon buns, kougin amman

i love bread: quinoa turmeric edition

have you tried our quinoa turmeric sourdough yet? while it’s one of our newest breads, it’s already a crowd favorite. it gets its vibrant natural color from the turmeric, and its complex flavor from middle eastern spice blend za’atar. swing by and pick up a loaf: its so popular we made it available everyday!

ingredients: organic roller milled wheat flour, organic high extraction flour, toasted quinoa, turmeric, black pepper, za’atar, sea salt, honey, wild yeast culture


pairs well with:

  • hummus
  • labneh
  • cheeses: cream cheese, cottage cheese, mild brie
  • merlot or chardonnay
  • grilled chicken
  • peanut butter, cilantro, & hot sauce
  • balsamic vinegar
  • lentils
  • IPAs, pilsners, sours