Hamelman's Sourdough Seed Bread

I baked 2 loaves of DMSnyder's SJSD and they disappeared overnight.... so decided I'd make something that at least seemed more healthy.

I broke out the Hamelman Bread book and started browsing.  Several hours later (serious) I settled on Sourdough Seed Bread, I had all the ingredients on hand and it seemed like it would be delicious. I ended up tweaking the recipe a little bit to incorporate some freshly milled grains, and I think it turned out pretty well!  I am also bad at following instructions, and my KA mixer made the dough pretty warm at the start, but no harm done!

Prepared the Levain from 1oz NMNF starter with 4.8 oz AP flour and 6 oz Water the night before. (it took around 12 hours to be bubbly and ready -  I have never done a one step levain build like this, but we were desperate and out of bread, so I forged on. At the same time made the soaker with 2.2 oz flaxseeds and 6.7oz water.  Both Levain and soaker sat overnight on the kitchen counter.

The next morning I mixed the dough: (I am glad my scale will change units to oz from grams or I'd have been in trouble here, or doing a lot of math to scale down from bakery sized measurements)

Soaker, Levain 1lb AP flour and 8.6 oz freshly milled hard white, 2.6oz dark rye, 3.8 oz toasted sunflower seeds, 1oz toasted sesame seeds (all I had - the recipe called for more) 11.3 oz water and .7oz salt.  Threw them all in the bowl of the Kitchen Aide and mixed for a bit, it looked very dry so I added a smidge more water and set the timer for 4 minutes.  At 4 minutes the dough was 86 dF Yikes!  a little warm....

Bulk Ferment - 2.5 hours on the counter with one fold in the middle somewhere.

Divide and shape into 3 loaves - put in bannetons and retard in fridge about 21 hours.

Removed from the fridge and they were like bricks, so I left them on the counter and went to Yoga class.  Came back (about 1.5 hours) turned the oven on and loaded into Dutch ovens. 

Baked 25 minutes lid on at 475 and 20 minutes lid off at 450dF.  It smells divine and looks pretty good too!