rayc's blog

I haven’t posted in over a year.  To busy baking and doing the necessary every day life things until May and  my arm had a bit of an old man’s problem requiring surgery in August (broken bone spur with complications).  All is better now and really I needed to bake some sourdough bread.  I used Susan’s Simple Sourdough  Formula, here http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/13771/simple-sourdough-909. I have baked this bread before, but today I had to make a couple of changes.

Because I did not want to throw out some left over starter, I made Flo's 123 formula.  I thought it turned out pretty good.  Loaf got cut before I got a pic, but have pics of  what was not consumed.  Every body here rated it good, but to me it didn't have the degree of sour tang to it that I like.  Crust was definitely chewy and the crumb was chewy also. Overall it was  a good bake. 

Formula: 

 250 grams   White Starter (67% hydration)