January 19, 2018 - 8:38pm
Peasant bread
I sometimes make bread at home. This time I made a typical bread from my hometown, Barcelona. The catalan peasant bread, one long (we call xusco) and one round (the traditiional upside down). I mixed regular AP flour + 20% stoneground flour from local mexican wheat grains. This time I have chosen small quantity of levain (15%) and little yeast (0,1% instant) and make a long bulk rise (16 hours in fridge).Hydration was around 75% including levain. Once the dough is tempered, then divide and shape. Easy and simple.
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Because of you I will have to buy a larger three ring binder for storing my formulae! I've now created BBGA spreadsheets for this Catalan bread and the Super Levain. Still in the future, but near future, before I get to bake these two.
Just because I want to (¡e yo soy un hombre irascible!), I'm going to use 125% hydration all rye levain and divide up the whole grain as 15% Rye & 5% WW.
You are creating problems for me! Please consider stopping ;-) . Grr.
alan
... and delicious, I bet! I'm with Alan - between the wonderful things people are posting on here, the extensive bookmarks I already have and a new book for Christmas (finally got a copy of Hamelman's "Bread"), we're in danger of having way too much bread to eat!
I've been trying variations of inoculation rates (I have a lot of starter, as I was rejuvenating mine) and fermentation timings, to see what I can make quickly, or easily, or both, and which tastes the best. Sounds like you have too!