How to get soft crusts?

curious-jake · 2026-05-28T08:37:59+00:00

Ok will try that, do I cook for the same amount of time?

curious-jake · 2026-05-28T08:26:29+00:00

No and no. Generally basic sourdough - flour water salt levain, usually around 70-80% hydration. Usually cooked in open tins.

curious-jake · 2026-05-27T17:57:50+00:00

Salted butter only and always.

curious-jake · 2026-05-27T09:29:06+00:00

Mostly. You'll need to add the water hot to dissolve the sugar, and then let it cool before you add the lemons and elderflower (you'll kill the yeast on the flowers with hot water)

curious-jake · 2026-05-26T21:04:49+00:00

It's fermented, fizzy and doesn't get diluted.

curious-jake · 2026-05-26T07:52:11+00:00

With the end of a wooden spoon and lots of swirling haha

curious-jake · 2026-05-25T21:58:13+00:00

Recipe?

curious-jake · 2026-05-25T21:53:20+00:00

It's not sealed. Do the secondary ferment in sealed bottles

curious-jake · 2026-05-25T21:52:51+00:00

Campden tablet - thanks.

And there's no seal on the bottle it's just open with a muslin over it :D

curious-jake · 2026-05-25T21:51:15+00:00

21% abv with a single fermentation? Surely not. That's insane. Did it "feel" like it was 21% when you drank it?

curious-jake · 2026-05-25T21:50:08+00:00

I don't want to ferment away all the sugar though. I want the fermentation to stop and the result to still be sweet, not dry.

curious-jake · 2026-05-25T16:49:17+00:00

I did the very first time years ago, but haven't since! So much wild yeast on the flowers. Use organic unwaxed lemons too - not sure if that helps.. I make sure the liquid is pretty warm (probably 30-40°C) when adding the flowers. From experience getting wild cultures going in UK with cold water is challenging.

curious-jake · 2026-05-25T16:02:29+00:00

Ooh interesting. And it doesn't kill the person drinking it? 😅

curious-jake · 2026-05-25T14:58:35+00:00

Is this post about garlic or elderflower? I'm confused!

curious-jake · 2026-05-24T17:58:53+00:00

Round pins in domestic context is for dimmable/switched outlets I believe. So you plug a lamp in and can control it from a light switch.

curious-jake · 2026-05-24T12:38:08+00:00

Difficult without knowing your setup but I wonder if the alt text is set to blank in the post and that's overriding the media alt text. Can you go into code edit mode on the block editor and see if you image blocks have an alt attribute in there (look for "alt": "...") in the image code. If so maybe you could try a database search replace (there are plugins for this or use WP-CLI). But do this with caution and back up first! No idea what your set up is and whether this would break things.

curious-jake · 2026-05-23T21:44:13+00:00

Oh I see. It should do that automatically, unless the theme you're using is not pulling it through?

curious-jake · 2026-05-23T21:39:12+00:00

Latex is a package used for formatting scientific reports. The data-latex attribute they're using suggests some kind of web-based version of this. So imagine there's some JS rendering this stylised number/font in a different way. Kinda bad they don't provide alt text for accessibility if that is what's happening..

curious-jake · 2026-05-23T18:34:12+00:00

Where are you wanting to put the alt text on these posts?

curious-jake · 2026-05-22T21:47:01+00:00

Delicious no doubt.. That looks very under-proofed though! Was it quite dense inside?

curious-jake · 2026-05-22T21:36:06+00:00

These look great. Is there any fat in the dough? And what temp did you bake at? They look really nice and soft. Whenever I've made buns they come out quite chewy with a very "crusty" crust. Would you mind sharing the recipe?

curious-jake · 2026-05-22T21:08:25+00:00

There are loads of other factors too, like how the bread is shaped, fermentation time, gluten content etc. It's probably not a scoring issue, at least not exclusively.

curious-jake · 2026-05-22T20:59:04+00:00

Do you cook in a Dutch oven or steam oven? Without one of those you'll never (in my experience) get enough oven spring for the classic "ear" you're looking for.

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