Sourdough Loaf (Deprecated)

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Ingredients

Feed Starter

Ingredient
Amount
Calories
Rye Flour (for feeding)
21g
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Water (for feeding)
21ml
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Stiff Starter

Ingredient
Amount
Calories
Strong White Flour (stiff starter)
88g
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Water (for stiff starter)
44ml
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Rye Starter (from earlier step)
44g
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Dough

Ingredient
Amount
Calories
Stiff Starter (from earlier step)
145g
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Water
400ml
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Strong White Flour (dough)
400g
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Wholemeal Flour
50g
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Rye Flour
50g
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Fine Sea Salt
12g
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Olive Oil
3g
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Recipe

Prepare Rye Starter

  • Feed the rye starter by mixing in the water and flour with a sterilised spoon.
  • Leave out for 8+ hours. For best results make sure your starter has risen as much as possible when you use it.

Prepare Stiff Starter

  • Mix strong white flour, water, and rye starter in a bowl.
  • Cover with cling film.
  • Leave out for 8-14 hours.

Prepare Dough

  • Put stiff starter and water in a bowl and mix by squeezing starter through hands.
  • Add strong white, wholemeal, and rye flours.
  • Hand as a claw and gently combine.
  • Flour a work surface with strong white flour.
  • Stretch and tear dough using puma hand for 6 minutes.
  • Dough back in bowl. Wait 20 minutes.

  • Dough back on work surface.
  • Add fine sea salt.
  • Stretch and tear again for 6 minutes.
  • Oil the bowl, put dough in.
  • Fold dough using folding technique.
  • In bowl, cover with cling film. Wait 1 hour.

  • Fold. In bowl, cover with cling film. Wait 1 hour.

  • Fold. In bowl, cover with cling film. Wait 1 hour.

  • Fold. In bowl, cover with cling film. Wait 1 hour.

  • Clean bowl. Put in tea towel folded in half.
  • Sprinkle tea towel with wholemeal flour. Put in bread.
  • Cover with cling film and put in fridge for 8-12 hours.

Cook

  • Put dutch oven in oven at 250°C.
  • Take dough out of fridge and leave for 1 hour.
  • Sprinkle dough with semolina. Place top-side-down inside dutch oven.
  • Use a razor blade or very sharp knife to cut a 1.5cm cross on the top.
  • Cook for 35 minutes with lid on.
  • Cook for 25 minutes with lid off.
  • Remove from dutch oven and cook on oven shelf for 5-10 minutes.
  • Place on wire rack for 30 minutes before cutting.