About 3:30 pm today I started making a semi-sourdough bread out of the very short-lived Hebertson while Herbert continues to mature. (Herbertson seem to have a bigger chunk of starter, he was more lively than Herbert.) Herbertson baked up like this:
Ingredients:
- 10 ounces lukewarm water
- 2 teaspoons instant yeast
- 12 ounces “4 to 6 hrs since fed" sourdough starter
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 19 1/4 ounces all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons salt
- Optional: 2 teaspooons melted butter
Instructions:
- Sprinkle yeast and sugar on lukewarm water in stand mixer bowl, blend in sourdough starter and 1 cup of flour with whisk or spoon.
- After well combined, add in rest of flour, kneading for a minute or so.
- Sprinkle in salt, and continue kneading on medium-low (3 to 4) for 4 minutes, forming a smooth and somewhat sticky dough.
- Spray one hand with cooking spray, scoop out dough as best possible.
- Use cooking spray to lightly spray bottom and sides of bowl.
- Allow dough to fall back into bowl.
- Mark current volume, and volume to double
(Mine was a bit under 4 cups, maybe 850 ml)
- Cover bowl, let dough rise until doubled
(This should be maybe 90 minutes, depending on how active your starter is.) - Place parchment paper at bottom of a enabled Dutch oven, sprinkle with 1 teaspoon semolina flour.
(This is to prevent burning when cooking.) - Gently shape dough into a ball, place dough ball in Dutch oven on top of semolina flour.
- Cover Dutch oven with lid, allow dough to rise for another hour.
- About 45 minutes into rising, arrange racks of your stove to support Dutch oven centered of oven. Preheat oven 425.
(Move racks as needed) - Remove lid, make 2 slashes on top of bread just before baking with a very sharp knife.
(Optional: Spray lightly with cooking spray, sprinkle with a 1/2 teaspoon of Kosher salt) - Replace lid, place Dutch oven in stove.
- Bake for 25 minutes, remove lid.
(Optional: Brush bread with 2 teaspoons melted butter to promote browning.) - Bake for another 5 to 10 minutes until it is a deep golden brown.
- Remove bread from the oven, and cool on a rack.
Carole's Notes:
Recipe is lightly adapted from http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/rustic-sourdough-bread-recipeI decided to use all the cloned starter in this recipe to amp up the sourdough taste. I cut the water and flour in the official recipe to take this into account. The bread was tasty - it made a lot!
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