SD / YW Combo Starter White Bread

After Abe’s recent success with his new yeast water, Lucy went looking for our cherry YW in the back of the fridge where it has been neglected for months.  Plus, I was bit shaken with Lucy’s latest attempts to make all of us redundant and nothing shakes the Lucy Blues she creates with her computer apps as much as a nice jar of cherry yeast water.  It was time to give it some refreshment.

Lucy decided to make this levain a combination of SD and YW just to be different and to not use sprouted grains for a change even though the this bread still ahs 23% whole grains.  The pre-fermented flour after the 3 builds was a bit less than 15% more than usual 10-11% due to the fact that the YW had been retarded so long and it is slower than SD working alone in the first place.

We followed exactly the same process we did earlier today for the levain build, autolyse, dough development, long cold retard, final proof and baking.  What a rut we find ourselves in today and it is all Lucy’s fault since I only do what she recommends most of the time.

This squat oval was badly mangled when un-molding onto the parchment paper.  Part of the loaf was on the peel instead of the parchment and it stuck.  I lifted the stuck part with a scarper and managed to get some parchment under the stuck dough but the damage was done. It spread and deflated horribly - and Lucy was looking for really big holes too!

Still we slashed it slashed it 3 times since it was now so spread out after and slid onto the bottom of the combo cooker covered for steam.  Once the lid came off, the bread was baked another 15 minutes at 425 F until it was deemed done with a bottom thump or two.

The bread bloomed and sprang well under steam and browned well under the dry heat.  We will have to see how the crust turns out after it cools.  The irregular open crumb that YW brings to bread is unmatched - as is the moistness and sweetness of the crumb. For being manhandled this bread still cam through.  It doesn't taste like a SD sprouted grain bread -) it tastes like a SD YW bread instead - fine and dandy with me.  This will make a fine sandwich and dipping bread.

 Lucy says to have a salad with that pork tamale, chicken enchilada combo and the mixed fruit galette.