Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, sourdough bread. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Sourdough Bread is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Sourdough Bread is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must 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:
- Make ready 8 oz "Fed" Sourdough Starter
- Get 12 oz warm water (100-110F)
- Make ready 2 tsp active dry yeast
- Prepare 1/2 oz sugar
- Make ready 2 1/2 tsp salt
- Get 21 1/4 oz all-purpose flour (or bread flour)
Autolyse: In a large mixing bowl, stir together flours and water with your hands until well combined. Spray the loaves with lukewarm water and dust generously with flour. Make two fairly deep diagonal slashes in each; a serrated bread knife, wielded firmly, works well here. Remove it from the oven, and cool on a rack.
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!!!
It's important to know that you need a sourdough starter before you make this homemade bread. You can find complete instructions on how to make sourdough bread starter here. I talked all about sourdough starters: how to make one, and how to maintain one. It's so important to start your bread-making with a healthy, active starter. Sourdough bread is an old favorite that has recently risen in popularity.
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