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SFBI Miche - one of the tastiest bread I've made so far

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MadAboutB8

SFBI Miche - one of the tastiest bread I've made so far

I finally got around to make the famous SFBI (San Francisco Baking Institute) Miche the past weekend. I have been wanting to try this recipe for sometimes after reading so much rave reviews from the TFL members.  

The recipe was posted by David (dmsnyder). Many of the TFL members have made this Miche and all reported fantastic results (many thanks to David and all TFLers who baked the bread and share their results). 

The bread has a mixture of bread and whole-wheat flour in the starter. The recipe also contains wheat germs, which was toasted before the mixing. I have never baked with wheat germs before, or have any wheat germs for that matter. The aroma of toasted wheat germs was fantastic. It has nutty and sweet aroma and give the earthy flavour to the bread.

The original recipe yielded one 2-kg Miche. It was suggested not to scale down the recipe, or you'll be sorry if you do, as the bread was really nice. I didn't scale down the recipe, but instead, I scaled it up to 3-kg batch for two of 1.5-kg Miches.

The dough was soft, silky and nice to work with. I was surprise how well the gluten has develop with little effort. I almost did ZERO kneading but the gluten seems to develop itself from the very beginning, which I was wondering if it was the result of high hydration.

It is one of the tastiest bread I made so far. I love its chewy crumb, crackling crust, and pronounced sourness (which I wonder if it has anything to do with whole-wheat flour in the starter).

I have also posted about this bake in my blog, here.

Sue

http://youcandoitathome.blogspot.com 

 

 

 

 

Comments

Syd's picture
Syd

Lovely scoring and crust colour, Sue.  I bet that crust is bursting with flavour.  And I just love what the toasted wheat germ adds to the loaf.  I am hooked on this one, too.  Great bake.

Syd

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dmsnyder

I'm glad you enjoyed this bread. It is delicious.

David

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CraigFromNewcastle (not verified)

It looks fantasic :) 

The crust looks excellent! 

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GSnyde

Great looking example of a wonderful bread.

Glenn

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MadAboutB8

Thank you all for kind words.

I'm hooked on this bread too, and wheat germs. I'm now looking for recipes that might include wheat germs in them and want to explore more about it in the future bake.

It is also amazing to have baked the bread to that dark colour (or bold bake as David put it). The crust was crackling and the aroma was heavenly.

Sue

http://youcandoitathome.blogspot.com

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teketeke

The crumb is really attractive and nice scoring job, Sue.

Best wishes,

Akiko