Latest baking: whole-wheat blend walnut loaf, plain-Jane bleached white
I'm continuing my sourdough adventures. Two days ago it was a walnut loaf using a whole-wheat mix: 50% AP, 25% spelt, 20% whole wheat (all I had left), and the remaining 5% einkorn.
Percentages: 1000g flour total, 800g water, 150g starter, 25g salt. This is pretty much my standard base recipe, flour types vary. Yields 2 large boules.
Autolyse 30 min - 6 hrs. (depending on what starter is doing), stretch & fold or slap & fold 4x at 30 min. intervals, 4 repeats (2 hours). I've experimented with further warm rise for 2-6 hr. or straight cold proofing, usually 8-48 hrs. Nothing's utterly spoiled the bake yet.
Augmented with 100g cooked whole kernels, spelt & einkorn.
Dusting: rice flour, rolled 4-grain (rye, barley, oats, wheat).
AMAZEBALLS!!!!
I've had walnut bread occasionally, this was simply outstanding.
Could have added dried fruit (chopped dates, raisins, cranberries, apricot) but decided to hold off.
Today's loaves were from my bleached flour stash -- not something I'd usually buy, but it was available on one recent grocery run and I'd not yet found unbleached or whole wheat. Figured this would be about the worst I could do.
Also gave a long (4+ hr.) room-temp ferment, followed by 24hr. in fridge. Oven preheated to 550F for 45 min with both Dutch ovens in, tray below for water. Boules popped out of proving bowels onto parchment paper, one brushed with boiling hot salt water, the other not. No augmentations, just the flour. Re-steamed oven at +10 minutes, tops off the Dutch ovens & temp dropped to 450F at 25 min, for another 20 minutes. Cure with heat off and door cracked open for another 20 min.
Tastes like, but better than, San Francisco sourdough. Might have been slightly overprooved, but good texture. Brushed crust did blister, slightly. Thinking this would go really well with olives baked in.
Next batch now proofing; 500g AP, 250g spelt, 250g einkorn. Whole einkorn 7 spelt grais, 100g, and 25g flax seeds.
That'll bake in 2 days, cold-proofing in fridge.
