Lost the race with the heat
Today I wanted to make woven bread. But: The sun shines directly into our kitchen windows (into almost all windows of our flat) from about noon on - an we still have no blinds installed:
While the stone was preheating, we had 29° in the kitchen (84 to 85 F)! And I forgot to use ice water. Also, the kitchen tap did not give cold water. Without any bulk fermentation, the dough was too fast proving for me to generate a nice looking mesh.
My recipe:
- 430g levain at 100% hydration (wheat, but fed with 10% rye starter; just 12h on the counter due to the heat)
- 500g wheat flour
- 265g water
- 2% salt
- 0.2% instant yeast (should not have done this.)
- 2 tablespoons oil
And this is the result:
It tasted good, and we liked eating it. But it should have been a present.
Cut and eaten warm:
I just had everything in the mixer for 7 minutes; after first mixing 10 minutes of rest and 3 more minutes. You could say, this mixing was just 20' bulk fermentation. But it already was too much. I didn't even have the 5 minutes it would have taken me to form the mesh and the dough already increased too much. I directly put it in the oven as it was.
Lesson learned: Check the thermometer and the water temperature.
Adrian
Seems like even though things didn't go according to plan, you still won out ! That's a super cool looking bread, to me !
But always good to take away something new from each bake. Sometimes, ya just gotta drink the lemonade.
that looks too intricate for me to figure out how it was made, like a Celtic knot.
The pattern should have been something like that, but closer together: http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/37575/baking-wedding
With celtic knots you have a great idea! I had a great book in my hands, but didn't buy it. It was written in Galician, but with being able to read Spanish and/or Latin it is an easy language to understand. Maybe I can find it online or let a Spanish friend send it to me. On the other hand - for baking it will be just the simple ones that can easily be found online. Also the simpler chinese knots might be worth a try. I've got a project. Thanks!
Adrian