80 % Rye
Hamelman's 3 stage 80
% Brotform Rye
Well I finally got a decent result in terms of a patternĀ from the brotform mold I purchased a few weeks back. David Snyder has given me some good tips on brotform dusting, recommending a 50/50 mix of AP and rice flour, and to just fill in between the coils of the form. Thanks David! Unfortunately it turned out I didn't have any rice flour at the time so I used what I've always used in the past and that is light rye flour. There's still a lot of room for improvement, but it's getting there.
This has been a relearning process for me, as the bakery that I've worked in for the bulk of my career has only ever made 1 rye bread and we don't use brotforms. Nor is our rye bread even remotely close to a high ratio rye.
The final weight of this loaf was 1.156 grams or 2.5 lbs. which isĀ just the right size for the mold I have when fully proofed. The dough came together nicely but I needed to work it a bit on the counter since it was too large for my old KA to mix thoroughly. The full sour wound up getting much warmer (by 10* or more) than what Hamelman's recipe calls for, so I decided to make the final mix earlier than specified to cool the sour down a bit. The final dough had a 20 minute bulk ferment at the recommended 82*-84*. I didn't dock or score the loaf. The loaf had quite a good spring to it for a high ratio rye, setting up nicely without any splits. I'm fairly pleased with the visual result, and very happy with the flavor. The Detmolder process punches the flavor up considerably.
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Notes:
increased mature sour by 25%
used dark rye (Bob's Red Mill) instead of medium rye
increased baker's yeast by .5% (scaling error)
increased hydration by 1-2%