I guess I was due a pancake (almost)! Wanted to keep exploring the sourdough poolish idea after delicious (although ugly) ciabattas.
Decided to make a seeded sourdough with ~40% whole grain and a soaker, and made a preferment with all the whole grain in the recipe: https://fgbc.dk/1h9s
"Ciabatta are like geodes, their true beauty is hidden until you slice them.". Don, our superb baker MTloaf, provided this wise comment recently.
I love sesame in bread. These make for very tasty bread.
Recipe
Makes 3 loaves
Porridge
150 g rolled oats
300 g water
50 g honey
50 g butter
Add-ins
75 g raw Sesame seeds
75 g raw Sunflower seeds
Dough
600 g unbleached flour
200 g freshly milled Red Fife flour
210 g freshly milled Spelt flour
75 g flax, freshly ground
700 g water
25 g salt
250 g levain (procedure in recipe)
The afternoon before:
My starters were fed more than usual the amounts of ‘food’ just before my husband and I left for a family emergency in eastern Quebec. This morning I mixed both liquid and stiff discards to make 100% hydration, then recalculated the recipe for a cinnamon raisin swirl loaf recipe from KAB. I’ll probably attempt this again (the hubby loves cinnamon raisin anything!) with ripe sd and some spelt flour.
Dough (all at room temp)
Did a variation on my regular recipe. Swapped out all the WW for a mix of AP/Bread flour. With all the non (low) gluten flours and the soaker, it's hard to keep this recipe from spreading flat when doing a free standing loaf. This time I tried it with a round and seam side up. I think it helped the loaf hold its shape with no score. Spread just a bit on one side, but overall not too bad!
I've had a lot of compliments for this pic elsewhere so I thought it may be appreciated here too. 70% hydration, 20% wholemeal. I will expand on my method if anyone is interested.
This recipe is an adaptation of Maurizio’s cardamon sweet roll recipe. The dough is enriched and uses a Yudane to gelatinize some of the starches to make for a more shreddable soft crumb. After the delicious cake I made last week using yuzu lemon I was trying to think of other ways of using lemon and yuzu and thought about sweet rolls. So these are filled with lemon sugar and iced with a yuzu vanilla cream cheese icing. Let’s hope this works and tastes good.
8”x8” square pan, lined with parchment.
Total Dough Weight |
You may know my frustration with this grain and trying to learn to bake with it at 100%. With much advice and good helpful suggestions from many here, you know who you are so thank you, I think my fifth bake is the best so far without having seen the crumb.
Every month, starting January 2020, my bakery offers a subscription "Taste Tester Box" following a predetermined theme. We have three options: a bread box, a treats box, and an everything box. The everything boxes are huge and our subscribers get roughly four pounds of breads and the equivalent of 6 of our quarter pound+ almond croissants. Each month features two or three different breads and three different treats.
These two loaves were made from the same batch. The boule did not rise as much and had a dense crumb. The Batard had a fantastic rise, nice open (maybe too open) crumb. The internal structure was very weak.
King Arthur All Purpose Flour 73% Hydration
5.5 hours bulk fermentation time
Dough temp throughout 79 degrees
Shaping technique maybe a little too aggressive on the boule?
Any ideas, suggestions would be welcome. :)
