High Extraction Sprouted Sourdough – Finally A Sort Of Real White Bread

Lucy finally got around to making a sprouted white sourdough that doesn’t have any whole grains in it….if you overlook the 6 grams of whole rye in the rye sour starter.

  Lucy kept this one at 74% average extraction for the sprouted 5 grain portion and the Kamut and wheat at 82% extraction making for an overall extraction of 78% for half the flour.  The other half of the flour was LaFama AP.

I used look in awe at Phil’s (PiPs) 80%home milled extraction sourdough and thought one day Lucy would get around to her version of it but now we have sprouted flour to add to the mix too.  We followed our general MO of late.

The levain was a 3 stage on but we timed it to be ready to hit the autolyse with the salt sprinkled on top with the salt.  We only did a 45 minute autolyse since the hard bits had been sifted out of the high extraction flour.  We have the basis of some fine Toadies with these left overs.

We did our usual 3 sets of 30 slap and folds and 2 sets of 4 slap and folds all on 30 minute intervals before pre-shaping and final shaping into a boule and being placed in a rice floured basket, bagged in a trash can liner for the 21 hours of cold retard in the fridge without any bulk ferment on the counter.

Once the dough came out of the fridge we let it rest on the cou8nter for 45 minutes before firing up Big Old Betsy to 450 F with the combo cooker and top and bottom stones in place.  Once he oven was at temp 1 1/4 hours of warm up had taken place.

The dough was un molded onto parchment on a peel, slashed in a diamond and slid into the combo cooker for 18 minutes of steam under the lid at 435 F.   Once the lid came off we continued to bake at 425 F convection this time for 5 minutes before taking the bread out of the CC and letting it finish baking on the bottom stone  for 10 ore minutes.

It bloomed, blistered and sprang well under steam and browned up well without it.  We will have to wait for lunch to see how the crumb and taste came out.

The bread stayed crispy on the out side ans was soft moist a glossy in the inside and fairly open too.  It wasn't that much different than the 50% whole sprouted grain version but it did taste a bit milder from a whole grain flavor point of view and it was more sour.  Sometimes the powerful whole grain flavor can mask some some of the sour.

We like this bread a lot and it made a fine bologna, cheese, lettuce and tomato sandwich for lunch wit the usual fixings