The Speakeasy Bakery

Sourdough bread made a HUGE comeback during the early months of the pandemic. Here at the bakery, we saw a 20% increase in members and were handing out tips right & left. But for THIS baker, for unknown reasons, it had the opposite effect. The Bakery’s #WorldFamous starter languished in the fridge for FIVE MONTHS!!! FIVE!!!!!!! Well, the sourdough winter is over. The starter was restarted, the float test was passed, and, just to get things rolling, we started with a couple... of loaves of Country White No-Knead sourdough bread. Can’t wait for the weekend!

Starter needs starting .. but fresh baguettes and ciabatta are still in the mix

Hey everyone! From all of us at The Speakeasy Bakery, have a safe, healthy, and Happy Thanksgiving!!

Speakeasy Multigrain #favorite #multigrainbread #multigrain #sourdough #bread #breadnation #natchlev

My daughter, a fervent supporter of our charity, feedSCV, is the Global Director of Fabric & Trim at Champion Sportswear/Hanesbrands, Inc. in New York City. They’ve been doing team building Zoom sessions every Friday. Yoga, various crafts etc. She asked me to do one on bread, so I did No-Knead and Baguettes. I did it old-school which, for me, means no scoring and dumping directly into the Dutch oven, rather than a sling or use of a pizza stone and stainless steel bowl.... Not bad .. and the Zoom seemed to go really well. I had to prep various stages for demo, similar to my regular classes. But no one to grab dirty dishes and clean so afterwards, the kitchen look like a bomb hit. Madeline says, Hi!

Sourdough bread.

The pandemic, which has sent countless hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, into a sourdough revolution .. seems to have had the opposite effect on me. #ComebackRye?

Hey guys .. do me a flavor and go over to IG and like this post. If I win, I’ll have a Vitamix to give away! https://www.instagram.com/p/B_GCFF3gbvE/

The Speakeasy Bakery does Peanut Butter Cookies with Milk Chocolate Chips! #cookies #peanutbuttercookies #notbread

Fougasse!! (Bless you)

Rainy day .. Stuck inside .. PRETZEL BUNS!! Right?

Every now and then, I like to remind everyone of the credo of our little group. Now seems appropriate ... "If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour." --Jose Marti

Whole Wheat Weekend I haven’t made any whole wheat bread in a long time, so working at home this tax season will give me the opportunity to hone those skills again. The house was definitely a bit cool yesterday, which, even though I realized it, I didn’t alter my program much, which lead to a slightly less than spectacular rise. The loaf in the foreground is a 100% Grist & Toll Hard White, with 82% hydration.... The other two were a mixture of G&T Hard White, KA bread flour, and Bob’s Red Mill rye, with 74% hydration. Multi-grains: Millet, poppyseeds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, and cornmeal. Trying some more complex scoring patterns on the multigrain .. I’d give myself a score of Average. Practice practice!

#MeditateAndBakeBread

2nd installment of this Passion Project of this professional cinematographer. Beautiful. 3rd installment expected around 3/31 ... #therewillbebread ... https://youtu.be/QE-O8sAghUo

I call this one .. Dumbo Going back to my roots and the first bread program I ever tried: Nancy Silverton’s Country White. Starter should probably have been fed but I rolled the dice.

For those who are on Instagram, here’s an account you may want to keep your eyes on .. https://www.instagram.com/p/B765rBPBrAL/