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Red Spring Wheat loaf

suminandi's picture
suminandi

Red Spring Wheat loaf

Today's bread is made from fresh ground, sifted Hard Red Spring wheat from Montana Flour and Grains

Very basic bread - 

400 gr bolted fresh ground flour

320 gr water (80%)

8 grams salt

30 gr olive oil

2 tablespoons honey

60 grams levain (stiff starter ~65% hydration)

Process:

2 hr autolyse flour and water

Mix dough including autolyse, levain and salt - let rest ~30 min

mix in honey and oil.

Bulk ferment until nearly doubled (~4 hr as warm room temp)

preshape, rest 20 min, shape - into refridgerator overnight

Bake in covered pot at 450 deg F directly from fridge. 20 min covered, 15 min uncovered

Here's the crumb (I cut it hot, so it's a bit wet in the picture. It dried off after a while). 

 

Comments

idaveindy's picture
idaveindy

I have the same problem of cutting open a loaf too early.  the smell of fresh-baked bread makes me salivate.

I do 90% whole wheat, and the "sweet spot" for timing, for flavor development,  is 20 hours after removing from oven.

One thing that helps me resist the temptation, is to have some of the previous loaf still on hand to nibble on.

 

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suminandi

But, I have never waited 20 hrs to cut open a loaf of bread. The most is about 10, when the bread comes out late in the evening, it is (sometimes) spared until morning. The crumb definitely sets up better when the loaf sits around a few hours. The flavor improves the next day whether or not the loaf is cut early.

The existence of previous loaves is somehow never compelling at our house. ;-).

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Benito

Wow, that looks incredible for 100% whole grain Sumi, so good.

Benny

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suminandi

Thanks, Benny. I’m happy with it ( and with the consistency of my results with this grain). It’s not 100% whole wheat, though, because I have sifted out the coarser bran with a #40 sifter. That removes about 10% by weight and makes it easier to get a lighter loaf.