Overnight Caraway Rye Sourdough Bread

I was out of bread, so thought a rye sandwich bread would be nice. After a bit of adjustments to fit my 12 x 4 loaf pan and my ingredients on hand, I made up this Overnight Caraway Rye Sourdough Bread.

Overnight Sourdough Bread

It's a round food baking day! (Doug is off camping with the scouts, so the kitchen is getting a work out..)

Last night I made up a sponge that I decided this morning to split between this bread and some Mini Chocolate Sourdough Muffins. I baked this bread in a Dutch oven to give it a crunchy crust.

Sourdough Challah (no added yeast)

I wanted to make a four braid sourdough challah. I started baking Saturday morning basically following the Sourdough Challah recipe from Sourdough Home.



For some reason, I forgot that most of my sourdough recipes have added yeast. With this only sourdough yeast recipe, I found adding yeast REALLY helps the speed of the rise. (There will be more discussion of this point later...)

I found the dough rose very slowly, I was only able to braid it after about 12 hours after initial kneading. This ended up having to be an overnight recipe, I put the loaf and pan in the refrigerator, and baked it this morning.