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SEMI SOURDOUGH 50% WHOLEMEAL

We have shifted from savory bread to sweet bread this week.

Sprouted Durum & Einkorn Walnut Sourdough

Time to revisit this one too!

Recipe

Makes 3 loaves

Porridges: 

50 g large flake oats plus 100 g water (I got 145 g of porridge)

50 g coarse ground Khorasan (I put the dot of my Komo mill 180 degrees counter clockwise from the finest setting) plus 125 g water (I got 140 g of porridge)

Dough: 

300 g fresh milled Khorasan (Kamut) flour (300 g Kamut berries)

700 g strong bakers unbleached flour

700 g water + 25 g + 25 g

23 g pink Himalayan salt

30 g yogurt

well this week when I told a friend I would make Pane Bianco, the reply was oohh - a pull apart bread!  Actually that would be better so I followed this recipe from King Arthur Flour.  https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/pane-bianco-recipe

Had a late start, and ran low on starter. Should have added some instant dry yeast to speed things up.

Goal: 1200 gram (weight before baking) boule.

12:37 pm. Mix 50 g chunks of Prairie Gold (HWSW) retentate from #20 sieve, 357 g home-milled PG, 93 g home-milled hard red winter wheat from Whole Foods, 86 g home-milled Kamut, (586 g total flour/chunks), 3/16ths tablet of 500 mg tablet of vitamin C, 469 g bottled spring water.

[ 1 hour 52 minutes autolyze. ]

This time, I tried to experiment with a shorter proofing time... But then life got in the way so I wasn't as scientific as I'd have liked to be. The result is OK, I cut into it about 36 hours after baking so it looks a little dry... Tasted nice, but the crumb is a little dense. 

What I'm actually thinking is that the activity of the starter is something I need to control next time. A longer bulk ferment and proof, but with a less active starter might be the key (like loaf 6)

Tomorrow going to revisit & make another batch of KAF’s Soft White Sourdough Bread. That was the first yeast raised gluten-free bread I’d had any success. This time feel confident enough to make my own flour base rather than use Measure for Measure, KAF’s gluten-free all purpose mix. And! *\0/* bake it in mini loaf pans in the toaster oven *\0/*. Living life of the edge, HaHa.

A 1.75 kg loaf from high extraction (85%) stone ground flour,  mixed in a stand mixer.

ingredients: flour, water, salt, and egg white glaze

procedure :

Weigh a kilo of flour and 20 grams of salt 

Put 300 grams of very active, very liquid, starter in stand mixer 

Add 300 gm water, mix in enough flour by hand fulls to make a thick batter.

Let ferment at 68F, for a 3 hours.

Add 300 gm water, and mix in enough to make enough flour to make a thick batter.

Let ferment at 68F, for a 3 hours.