Pane Petra conTuttoIlGrano (Molino Quaglia)
In my previous post "Golosaria 2009 & Petra Lab [1]" I wrote about Petra flour from Molino Quaglia [2]. I said I'd like to try conTuttoIlGrano, the (very) whole version of Petra.
And now, my very first test with conTuttoIlGrano! You can read about these flours in my previous post but I want to give you more details about conTuttoIlGrano. "con-tutto-il-grano" means "with-the-whole-grain" and I think this is a perfect name. The flour is stone milled, GMO free (not organic), it has 80% whole wheat flour and the other 20% is wheat flakes, toasted germ and bran ... a whole whole wheat flour!
I baked a simple sourdough bread, here the main points:
- 25% Petra1 + 75% Petra conTuttoIlGrano
- 25% pre-fermented flour (100% hydration liquid levain), I used Petra1 flour.
- 62% overall hydration
- Short mix with S&F
- Retarded in proof
[The loaf]
[The crumb]
And here the information from the bag (you can see the high resolution version on my zoomr page [3], just click on the photo then on the "lens" and select the original size). One side of the bag describe a formula with a yeasted biga. If you do the easy calculations the suggested hydration is 70% (maybe 68% if the dough is retarded). For sure this flour can go up to this high hydration (even more if you use a stiff 45% hydration biga that adds a lot of strength to the final dough) but I think this is not a must.
Yesterday I was reasoning about my oven + covered steam method and I think (maybe I'm wrong) the cover traps a lot of steam, sometimes too much steam. This could be a problem with high hydration dough (heart baked) because they need less steam but when covered they free even more stream than a stiffer one: result flat loaves. Ok, you can say don't use the cover with this dough but I wasn't so bravo to get a proper steaming with my crazy oven.
Conclusion: a great whole wheat flour. The loaf is perfect even if I think my starter doesn't like the "all in one" switch on Petra1.
Next loaf ... Pane Petra di Campagna?