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SoF Sourdough

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I don't usually call it anything other than sourdough, but when I'm trying to be clever I call it SoF (State of Franklin) Sourdough. 

 

95% BF, 5% Whole Rye, 72% Hydration. 1/3 total flour(including all of the Rye) in 100% hydration levain.

 

 

The crust is softer than I'd like, but I'm hoping a new oven will fix that. 

Caraway Rye

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I didn’t have time to get creative this week so I flipped through Hamelman’s Bread and settled on the 40% rye with caraway seeds.  The only significant change I made was to leave out the yeast.  The rye sour (all of the rye flour is prefermented) raised the bread just fine on its own, it just took longer.

Sourdough Sandwich Bread

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Sourdough Sandwich Bread

made with homegrown starter

1 cup starter at 100%

1 cup water

1 egg

2 T. EVOO

1 cup Prairie Gold White Whole Wheat

2 cups AP unbleached flour

1 teaspoon diastatic malt powder

1 T. dough enhancer

1 T. whey powder

2 T. non fat dry milk

1/4 cup potato flakes

Mix everything in the breadmachine on the dough cycle

takes about 1 and 1/2 hours, let rest in pan for 20 minutes

after dough cycle finishes.

 

Marathon milling and formula tweaking

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I have a confession …

I built a new levain …

… but why?

For a few reasons … We are only a couple of weeks into summer and my wholewheat desem starter is not coping. After trying many methods of slowing the fermentation I am still ending up with overly sour builds … they are out of my control and smell unpleasant and it is starting to show in the resulting bread.

Such as Baguette

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First

A walnut sized of fully risen dough, such as pizza

1/4 cup of warm water

2/3 cup of all purpose unbleached flour

Mix this well and place in bowl and cover at room temp.  Let sit for 8 hours then move on to second stage.

Second

The first starter

1/4 cup of warm water

3/4 cup of all purpose flour