Formula: 615g bread flour, 35g whole rye flour, 460g warm water, 110g chef (100% hydration), 141g coarse ground cornmeal (thats the dry weight), and 13g salt.
So I have not made any sourdough in months and let my starter die off. New Year new starter and my first sourdough bake of the year. The santed wife wants to try and go all organic as possible and make two nights a week Vegetarian, not vegan, but lacto ovo so pasta and cheese are still on the table.
This is a variation of Chad Robinsons Sourdough but with 10% Dark Rye Stone Ground Organic Flour, 12 hour rise.
Following Chad Robertson's recipe, in Tartine, I made a fantastic walnut bread last night. It is super delicious plain this morning. Not sure if I would make sandwiches on it or not but I suppose I will find out soon. I used 200 grams of white whole wheat and 800 grams of all purpose. I burned a bunch of the walnuts (or at least I think they were too dark) so these loaves don't have the full 3 cups but as you can see there are plenty of nuts in the crumb.
Since I've been building up some new starters this past week I had some active discard to hand so decided to whip up some kind of wholewheat tinned loaf for some nice toast in the mornings.
Came out pretty well, nice texture and gentle malty flavour from the extract together with the rye starter depth.
White Wheat Flour 350g, Wholewheat Flour 100g, Salt 7g, Water 270g, Rye Starter 100g, 1 tspn malt extract
Mixed, rested 1hr, (S+F, rest 30min) x 4, shaped and tinned, proofed 2hrs and baked
Crumb
Yesterday I was a bit frustrated with a project and at cooking lunch I cut myself.
So I really needed to bake something, preferably with spelt or wheat (usually I bake rye >50%) which would give me a dough that I could really physically work with.
Problem: I don't like yeast and I had no levain built the day before. But I had a lot of starter in the fridge (about 70g / 2.5 ounces) - 100% rye and not fed for 10 days.
Pinhead oatmeal fermented for 48 hours with a rye starter before incorporating into the dough. Finished in oatbran.
As some of you know, I was chosen to work with Sharon Burns-Leader, Jeffery Hamelman, and a few other wonderful bakers from the East Coast all of tremendous talent and charm. So much was done in such little time, and yet still so much more research is being done on growing heritage grain varieties to bring them back to market. I know that my time spent at Wide Awake Bakery this past weekend was one of the most memorable moments of my career to date.
Oh, yes, I was nervous. Yes, I didn't feel like I was deserving of being there. And yes, we baked some bread.
We have been working our way up the whole multigrain SD ladder for some tike starting at 12% and now this one is 50%. 50% is the minimum whole grain we would like to eat as our daily bread for all kinds of personal health reasons. Plus it tastes so much better than white bread in Lucy’s book as well as mine.
