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Ancient Grains with Black Sesame Seeds

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Danni3ll3

Ancient Grains with Black Sesame Seeds

This is an adapted redo of last week's loaf where I put way too much water in the dough. Changes were to add some leftover local organic yogurt and to only use toasted black sesame seeds as an add-in. So this is the recipe:

50 g toasted black sesame seeds

100 g yogurt 

567 g water

578 g unbleached flour 

87 g Spelt flour 

87 g Kamut flour 

52 g fresh ground rye flour 

87 g fresh ground einkorn flour 

87 g fresh ground red fife flour 

20 vital wheat gluten 

23 g salt

275 g levain (80%)

90 g water

Procedure:

1. Autolyse all ingredients from seeds to vwg for 3 hours.  

2. Mix in salt, levain and extra water till well distributed. I pinch and fold for several minutes to do this. 

3. Bulk ferment for 5 hours doing 4 sets of stretches and folds every half hour at the beginning. I consider the dough ready when it has doubled. 

4. Divide, preshaped, and rest for 20-30 minutes. Do a final shape and put into floured baskets. 

5. Place baskets into plastic bags and put into fridge to proof overnight (11-13 hours)

6. Bake in preheated Dutch ovens for 20 minutes at 500 F, 10 minutes at 450 F and then 25 minutes with the lid off. 

Makes 2 loaves. 

The loaves got fantastic oven spring thanks to the sourdough starter I got from JamieOF. He was right, this starter is lively beyond belief. The crumb is just the way I like it and the whole thing is delicious with the flavour of sesame throughout. Pretty happy with this one!

 

Comments

PalwithnoovenP's picture
PalwithnoovenP

Everything: The spring the crust and the crumb! It must be very tasty and sell for a good prize in a bakery.

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Danni3ll3

Then it stops being a hobby and becomes a job! I enjoy being retired so substituting as a School Principal on and off is enough of a job for me! It is also enough of a commitment to bake 3 loaves each week for the soup kitchen. 

Et merci bien pour vos compliments. 

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dabrownman

tasty as it looks. Inside and out are just perfect.  Very well done indeed.

Happy baking 

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Ru007

Well done Danni 

Happy baking 

Ru

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Danni3ll3

It is really very tasty! I love the nutty taste of the sesame seeds. And somehow the black version adds a "je ne sais quoi" to the appearance of the crumb. It is just a bit tricky to toast them because you can't depend on the visual to know when they are done without burning them. 

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leslieruf

you bake such great breads.  The crumb looks great, must taste wonderful.

Leslie

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Danni3ll3

Yes it does taste wonderful. I am happy I get to share this good bread with folks that would normally never try something like this. 

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Isand66

Beautiful Bake!

Love the look and sound of this one.  You would love the bamboo smoked sesame seeds I have.  I found them at Home Goods so if you have any by you, I think you would love them.

Happy Baking.

Ian

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Lechem (not verified)

An ancient grain loaf baked to perfection. My kinda bread. 

Enjoy! 

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lepainSamidien

Comme d'hab, ça a l'air délicieux. Les grignes, magnifique, et la mie, tout à fait séduisante. Ça donne envie quoi ! Parfait pour saucer ou pour tartiner au beurre salé. Trop bien !

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Dana D

i have so much trouble getting a decent spring and crumb when baking with heirloom varieties/whole grains. Well done!

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Dana D

i have so much trouble getting a decent spring and crumb when baking with heirloom varieties/whole grains. Well done!

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Dana D

i have so much trouble getting a decent spring and crumb when baking with heirloom varieties/whole grains. Well done!

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Dana D

(Sorry for this posting three times, not sure why that happened! Anyone know how to delete a comment?)

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Danni3ll3

You just got hit by the TFL gremlin! He likes to duplicate posts! 

And thank you for your kind comments. I am pretty pleased on how these turned out. Hopefully the loaves I am baking this week will turn out just as well.