There will now be a short intermission...

... while we raise two children.  And fix up the rest of the garden.  And the house.  And train the dog.  Back soon.

Just call me King Alfred...

So I've been told that you can cook stuff in a wood fired oven at a higher temperature than normal. But not this high. This is yeasted dough (not sourdough - more on my failures with sourdough soon...) with a high milk content. If I had thought about this a bit I would have realised the milk would make it brown easily. But I didn't. Instead I cooked it with the hearth at 280C...
It tasted good, once I cut the top off... I need to retard the bread in the fridge until the oven's cooled down enough - it's so well insulated now that it only cools about 9C an hour when it's about 250-300C!