San Joaquin Sourdough
I made this bread this weekend and was so pleased with it I had to post some pictures and thank David for sharing his recipe. It is a great bread. The substitutions that I made was I used Gold Metal Better for Bread for the white flour and Bob's Red Mill Dark Rye for the Rye flour. I had been getting my starter ready by feeding it every day for about a week. Another change I made was the way I did the strech and fold. I've been looking every where for those plastic scrapers and so I do not have one. I did the strech and fold just by getting my hands wet and picking up the dough and using gravity to do the streching and I would do the folding. I was very tempted to use Richard Bertinet's method, maybe next time. David's directions were great with time intervals listed so I followed them pretty closely.
On bake day I was begining to wonder if my starter was working well enough, but the oven spring I got was amazing! I tried to score the bread as David said and since this is a wet dough was having trouble but I got close.
The Crust.
The crumb.
This turned out to be one of the best looking loafs that I have made. It was also the first Batard. The flavor was great. I was a bit dissapointed that it was not more sour but that will be another research topic - how to get your starter to yield a stronger sour flavor. We had it toasted for breakfast and it was so good.
Again, Thanks David! I will be making this again.
Dwayne