Pain de Campagne
I am a relative newcomer to this great site and have gained much from the great expanse of talent that share comments and suggestions here at FL. I have an Allan Scott WFO under construction and and am half complete. Have been trying to ramp up experience with baking breads and pizza and have been working my way thru some of the great levain bread recipes in Ken Forkish's terrific FWSY book. This past weekend, I ran into aproblem in baking loaves of Pain de Campagne- in that the loaves seemed to adhere, partially, to my Lodge Cast Iron dutch over- and I had to 'pry' them out-leaving some of the crust behind. I tried to adhere closely to the recipe ferment and proofing times- and have not run into this problem with several other of his levain recipes I have tried. Any thoughts or suggestions will be most welcomed and appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Ed
id recommend parchment paper in the Dutch Oven... you can try other things like cornmeal or wheat bran but parchment is your best bet
I agree with davezar531 - I always use parchment paper. Sometimes I will do the final proof right on the parchment - not in a basket - other times I will tip the dough out of the basket onto parchment.
Then I will cut a big circle about 1 1/2 inches from the edge of the dough - and the use that to lift the proofed dough into the dutch oven.
I have been making Forkish's Pain de Campagne this way from the beginning, works like a charm!
Gail and Dave- thanks for the great suggestion... never dawned on me to try parchment paper.. and that sounds like a solution..... much appreciated!
PAM and skip the parchhment too. Up to you really. The PAm will alsohelp seadon theCI so nothng will stick to it eventually. Nake sure not to wash the Ci. Just tince and wip e fdry immediately the coalt with a thin coating of oil forstorage.Nothing sticks to my CI since it has been seasoned for 40 years but I don't use it for baking bread much anymore . It is a great baking tool when old and seasoned.... unlike my apprentice who used it with lava rocks for steam.Next thing i knew it was ruined and had to reseason it..No worries.