Three stages of tasty |
500g all purpose flour
375g water, any temperature
150-200g starter
2 tsp table salt
Starter |
Pour water into bowl. Scoop starter into water and stir to dissolve. Measure salt into bowl and stir to dissolve. Immediately add 100g flour and stir to dissolve. Add 400g more flour and mix. The result should be shaggy and sticky.
Pre-rise dough |
Cover and let sit overnight. Feed your starter while you're at it. Mine gets 100g water and 100g all-purpose flour per use. I'm considering feeding it 25g of whole wheat and 70g white for a bit to make it more robust.
After this you treat the dough like any high-hydration, no-knead bread. If that doesn't mean anything to you, read on.
Turn out onto floured surface and fold over itself a few times. Flour all sides and let rest briefly (five or ten minutes) to relax.
Fold your dough like this:
Heat your oven to 450-500F with a dutch oven in it. I've been using 500 but it makes handling the dutch oven very difficult.
Flour the top of your bread. Gently loosen it from its resting place; dust the bottom with flour if necessary.
Pick up the dough ball with both hands, gently. The bottom should be facing up when you're holding it. Get a buddy to open the oven and slide the dutch oven out partway; drop the dough into the dutch oven, seam side down.
Cover and bake for 30 minutes. If your oven was at 500F drop it to 450F.
Uncover and bake for 10-15 minutes.
Pull out of the oven. Turn out onto a rack. Try not to eat it for the next ten minutes. It's still baking inside. Fail and eat it anyway. It's okay. It'll be tasty.
Final stage |
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