Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, sourdough bread. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sourdough Bread is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Sourdough Bread is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
Sourdough bread is made entirely using wild yeast — with a strong, active sourdough culture of wild yeast, you won't need any commercial yeast at all. Wild yeast need a little more coaxing and works a. *** We've collected some of the most-asked questions from your comments on Patrick's bread videos and put them to him in this Q&A. In a nutshell, sourdough is slow-fermented bread.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook sourdough bread using 6 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Sourdough Bread:
- Get "Fed" Sourdough Starter
- Prepare warm water (100-110F)
- Take active dry yeast
- Take sugar
- Get salt
- Get all-purpose flour (or bread flour)
Replace the strong bread or pizza flour with wholemeal spelt flour. This bread is unique and beautiful, and also quite delicious. It works well for sandwiches and toast, and is also perfectly moist and interesting by itself. With this beginner's sourdough bread process and formula, you can endlessly modify with add-ins like walnuts, cranberries, seeds, and a host of other ingredients bound only by your imagination.
Steps to make Sourdough Bread:
- Combine all ingredients in mixer. (Referred to as "straight dough method")
- Ensure to scrape down sides of bowl to ensure all ingredients get incorporated.
- With dough hook, mix on medium low speed (2 or 3 depending on mixer) for about 8-12 minutes until a nice soft dough ball forms. This develops gluten in the bread. Dough should pull away from sides of bowl (known as cleanup stage)
- Dough should be tacky feeling. If it seems to tacky, add small Mounts of flour a little at a time while kneeding. Don't add to much extra
- Note: I add more starter than what recipe calls for; I put about 10-12 ounces of starter based on how I feel, how my starter smells and looks, and just because I can, I started adding more on occasion to experiment to see how different the bread turns out. To me a little more starter makes bread turn out better. Feel free to give it a go if you feel daring.
- Place dough into a large lightly greased bowl and tightly cover with plastic wrap.
- Allow dough to rise until doubled in bulk, about 90 minutes.
- Gently divide dough in two. It will deflate a little.
- Gently shape the dough into two oval loaves, or for longed loaves, two 10" to 11" logs or baguettes. Place on a lightly greased or parchment lined baking sheet. Cover and let rise until very puffy, about 1 hour,
- Note: I used two cloche to do bread in. This is a stone container that will give that stone oven bake to the bread and gives a great crust to it. I make my two logs and place in stone cloche then cover for the second rise. After rise I remove top, cut my slashes on top And lightly spray water from a spray bottle then recover for the bake. This creates a steam that helps develop bread and crust.
- Preheat oven to 425°F.
- Spray loaves with lukewarm water. Cut 2 or 3 slashes diagonal across top. Don't go to deep
- Bake bread 25-30 minutes. If using cloche, uncover for last 5 minutes of bake to allow crust to be one a deep golden brown
- Remove from oven and cool on rack before cutting
- Enjoy!!!
Sourdough bread has a thick, chewy crust and soft, airy interior. It is comforting, savory and so easy to make using only using flour, salt, and water. Learn how to make your own starter, maintain it, and turn. Learn to make Sourdough & discover why sourdough is the healthiest bread. It is #sourdoughseptember and time to celebrate the harvest and baking for the year to.
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