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This is my very first true sourdough enriched bread ever HAHAHAHA (can't you tell how ecstatic I am? Oh, and not counting my potato loaves). It was a lot of trials and errors with my starter and fermentation schedule. Oh boy, glad I'm finally here.

Cariah Marey has settled on satisfactory ratio. She is 1:1:1:1 bran:skim-milk-powder:water:butter at the moment. Skim milk lends lactose to increase osmotic pressure, while butter is there as ankle weight. She had little tolerance toward butter. Putting butter in the starter allows her to adapt over time, and she already has.

Recently there was a TFL thread that linked back to txfarmer's post from long ago in pain-de-mie, or slightly enriched soft shreadable sandwich loaves. Here's the link:

https://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/20669/sourdough-pan-de-mie-how-make-quotshreddablyquot-soft-bread

As promised, a delayed side-by-side assessment.

So on Monday I baked a Chleb Sandomierski

Dietmar Kappl of homebaking.at has recently written his first book entitled "Baking next level mit Roggen". Unfortunately it's only available in German and in printed format. Of course, no sensible baker publishes ebooks these days because they will be instantly pirated.

Haferflocken brötchen is one of the recipes in the book. I'm not going to publish it here to respect copyright, but if you go on the book publisher's website there is a small sample from the book with a few recipes - this is one of them.

Totals

Flour - 1436

High gluten bread flour 14% - 690g -  50%

Whole Rye - 470g - 33%

Whole Wheat - 248g - 17%

Water - 1084g - 75%

Salt 36 g - 2.5%

Barley malt syrup - 40 g - 2.8/%

Rye sour 

Whole Rye - 282g

Water - 226g

Mother @ 100% - 56 g

Final Dough

Bread flour 690g

Whole wheat flour - 248g

Whole Rye flour - 188

Water - 830g

Barley malt syrup - 40 g

Salt - 36 g

The combination of fresh milled durum and spelt was a winner. This one had 69% fresh milled flour, with the only other being some KAF AP in the levain.

I added some feta to the levain build to give it a little extra feta flavor.

The dough was slightly underproofed, thus the tight crumb, but it tasted great. It made amazing grilled bread brushed with a little EVOO.

The durum was milled and sifted with a #30 drum sieve and then re-milled at my Mockmill 200’s finest setting and sifted with a #40. The spelt was only sifted once with a #30 and re-milled.

Today's bake:  SESAME SEMOLINA (really durum but that was the title)

Source:  BBGA -  MARC LEVY

Notes: 

1. I ground the sesame seeds destined for the FINAL DOUGH for the one loaf to be given to my neighbor.

Substitutions: .53%  IDY for 1.8% FRESH YEAST

I created a new starter using masa hariña in four days.  This loaf is the first bake using it.

I don't know that there's much benefit out of using an all- masa hariña starter but I wanted to see if it would leaven a wheat bread well enough, as I thought it would. It seemed possible that there might be some interesting flavors compared with a wheat starter.