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New Recipe for Soft Sourdough - Need opinion

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cjweaver13

New Recipe for Soft Sourdough - Need opinion

I have been making some really good wonder bread style soft bread, and want to try with sourdough. Here is my adaptation and "wonder"ing (see what I did there?) what you all think. 

  • 400g strong flour    
  • 100g whole wheat 
  • 300g water
  • 28g butter (2 tbsp.)
  • 30g dehydrated milk powder
  • 30g potato flakes (instant mashed potatoes)
  • 10g salt
  • 25g granulated sugar (optional)
  • 125g starter

Mix and knead like normal. Bulk ferment ~4hrs. Shape and refrigerator in 10x5 about 18 hours. Let come to temperature and rise about 2-3 hours and bake 40min @ 375°F. Pray to the bread gods it's good. If the latter untrue, feed to squirrels :) 

 

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hreik

how much sourdough starter are you planning to use?

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cjweaver13

woops, forgot to include. I've been running about 25% so in this case about 125g of mature starter at 100% hydration

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hreik

need a tad more liquid, but you can always add that if your dough feels stiff.  Question for you.... what is the protein %age in your strong bread flour?  I'm asking b/c you might get a softer crumb by also using AP flour... like 1/2 and 1/2.  Just thinking aloud here.

 

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cjweaver13

So I use AP in the regular bakers yeast recipe, but wasn't sure if I'd get enough rise using starter. The bread flour is KA and I believe just shy of 13% and the wheat is slightly above 14%. I could of course try AP and some vital wheat gluten

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hreik

Just try out your recipe and see how it goes.  It looks great to me and I'm betting you'll get a lovely loaf

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Mini Oven

Squirrels will have to find some of the nuts they buried last fall.  :)