choffee

I like to make my own bread. I like a tasty sourdough loaf that has some rye in it. A while ago I found a book called 10 minute sourdough and this changed how I make bread. I got rid of my bread maker and my commercial yeast and started to make myself some sourdough starter. A later discovery that you could just keep the starter in the fridge and don't need to keep feeding it every day also helped.

This was all well after the pandemic in case you where wondering.

Recently I saw an Instant pot pressure cooker for 50% off and as I had wanted one for ages for beetroot and beans cooking (for which its doing really well but thats for another day. Now as they say when all you have is a hammer; everything is a nail and so now I want to cook everything in the pressure cooker. My first attemps where using the “bake” mode which my pressure cooker has with its grill lid thing. This was okay but it only really cooked the top of the loaf so I would do the first half of the loaf the right way up and then turn it over for the second half which worked okay for a while. Then I got to thinking could I pressure cook the bread? A bit of a web search later and I think you can do it.

My first loaf was completed today and I think it came out okay. A slight pudding texture but that might be my mix. I made my usual mix that I will cover elsewhere and stood the loaf tin on the trivet over a cup of water. Let that boil for 40 minutes and the removed the foil lid that I had protected it from the worst of the steam with. It came out with a sort of pudding type feel to it but it looked almost cooked. I then removed the water and the pressure lid and set the bake cycle for 15 minutes and at the end had a pretty passable loaf. as I said at the top I don't go for big fluffy instagram loves and as Charles Dowding says there is no flavour in the air!

There is still a bit more refinement to get it just so but I think I now have a pretty low effort and tasty loaf recipe. Now if I could just not eat it all in one day that would be great!