Two loaves underway this weekend - Hamelman's Pain au Levain, and Hamelman's Pain au Levain with Whole-Wheat Flour - both use a stiff levain which I hadn't done before, so I made enough to do a good-sized loaf for each.
"The white will be baked Saturday late afternoon, and the brown on Sunday morning" I commented to my other half. "We always seem to have lots of bread when we don't want to eat it, and no bread when we do", he commented. Oops! I'm still learning and experimenting - and he wants a bit more certainty about what he is going to eat - well, nothing wrong with that!
Mental note to plan ahead a bit better - and I decided yesterday afternoon to try to do a rapid "Saturday Lunch bread". Luckily I'd refreshed the starter so it was quite lively and fluffy - so I customised Tartine to make a small boule
60g starter (100%)
200g white flour
22g rye (light)
160 water
5g salt
Mix starter, flour and water and autolyse for 30mins. Add salt, stretch and fold in a bowl.
Stretch and fold after 30 mins, an hour, 90 mins, 2 hours
Pre-shaped and rest for 20mins, shaped and into bannetton in fridge overnight
This morning (9:30ish - well, it is Saturday!) it came out of the fridge - very little rising, so allowed to come to room temperature. Into oven after about 2 hours (had to sort the car out) at 240C on a stone under a cover for steaming for 10mins, then cover off and turned down to 200C for about 30mins
Quite a nice little loaf!
It didn't rise too much (probably a bit overproofed - not much expansion through the score) but enough, with reasonable oven spring
Before it all disappeared, the crumb:
The crust softened (as mine often do) but it tasted nice, just warm still when we cut it. There's a crust left in case we get hungry before dinner!
Sali
