Confession:
I did not diligently fold the dough as Rus did during shaping...hence the crack???
The recipe is from George Greenstein's Secrets of a Jewish Baker, but I'm using the starter from Silverton's Breads from the La Brea Bakery and omitting any commercial yeast.
My brother usually won't eat my English Muffins, but I thought I would give it the old college try one more time; he is used to Old Bay brand, and is very picky about his muffins tasting just like them (he won't even eat Thomas').
Between a fair amount of time away from home and baking the same old reliable stuff, I haven't been much of a blogging presence around these parts lately.
Hi Everyone..
A mouthful of a title...a la Dab ! This bread has evolved considerably from my initial bakes based on Shaio Ping's posts. The only liquid in the bake is the banana puree. I use two levains just because. I add figs and pecans..well just because.
I wasn’t happy with the rise I got the last time I did this. Thinking back on it, I think the loaves were already over proofed when I put them into the fridge. I remember poking them and the imprint sort of staying there. It was late at night and I wasn’t thinking things through. I probably should have baked them right then and there but being late, and they really hadn’t risen a lot, I thought they could wait. This time round, I changing up a few things:
As I am without a Dutch oven, oven stone or bread pan of the right size, I thought I would try this basic bread in a cast iron non-stick saucepan. This is the second time I have tried baking this way. I got a limited bloom as the dough was very wet, very ripe and had no bench work or second prove.
500g Tesco Very strong white bread flour
100g Matthews Cotswold Crunch flour
100g plain white flour starter 100% hydration
10g salt
80% hydration
Starter fed 6 hours before mixing. This had just gone past peak.
This is probably one of my best ever. It contains 50% wheat flour, and 50% mix of light rye and whole wheat, 9% fermented flour, and 68% overall hydration. No autolyse has been used, two hours bulk fermentation at room temperature (30 C), applying two stretches and folds before sending it to fridge for an extended 18-hour retarded bulk fermentation.
After the cold bulk fermentation, it was shaped and proofed for another 80 min on the counter before been baked in DO at 220 C for 30 min with lid on + 5 min with lid off to color.
Multi-grain Sourdough Bread with home-milled flour
David Snyder
August 12, 2018
I just received my delivery of 25 pounds of spelt berries so obviously I needed to use some in my next bake.
I combined the fresh spelt sifted once after milling with my Mock Mill 200 with some French style flour from KAF, left-over mashed potatoes, pecans and fresh cherries. I made one big miche this time and was very happy with the results. The crumb is nice and open and moist and the 57% spelt in this formula really shines through with a nice nutty flavor to go along with the pecans. This one is a keeper and worth trying.
