Hi, I am a new bread baker and cooking enthusiast trying to learn more. In particular I am interested in trying to recreate the Sperlonga loaf from Whole Foods! As one blogger describes it:
" It's basically Ciabatta but heavier, longer, more doughy – all in a good way."
you can see pics here:
http://hummusboy.blogspot.com/2010/10/wholefoods-bargain-shocker.html
So after reading a previous thread, they had suggested a ciabatta type recipe with the following criteria:
"There is a distinct malty sweetness that comes from about 1.25% non-diastatic malt. Low percentage of poolish (10-15% of the flour). Overall hydration about 77-80%. "
You can find those details here:
http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/12568/sperlonga#comment-448518
So my challenge is to come up with a modified ciabatta recipe to produce a loaf similar to sperlonga.
Here's my attempt so far:
| Sperlonga | Bakers % |
| Ciabatta | Target |
| Hydration | 80% |
| Malt Powder | 1.50% |
| Poolish Flour Weight | 10.00% |
| Poolish Hydration | 100% |
| Salt | 2.50% |
| Yeast | .5-.6% |
And coming up with a recipe for two loaves looks something like this:
| Total Flour grams | 1000 |
| Total Water grams | 800 |
| Malt | 15.0 |
| Poolish Flour | 100 |
| Poolish Water | 100. |
| Salt | 25.0 |
| Poolish Yeast tsp | 0.5 |
| dough flour | 900 |
| dough water | 700 |
| Malt Tsp | 5.0 |
| Salt Tsp | 4.2 |
| Dough Yeast Tsp | 1.1 |
I used the following assumptions to turn bakers % into tsp
| Malt Grams/Tsp | 3 |
| Kosher Salt G/Tsp | 6 |
| Instant yeast gm/tsp | 3.2 |
I imagine the process being:
1-poolish, room temp 4 hours. overnight in fridge
2-dough, mix in kitchenaid, rise for 2-4 hours, proof 1-2 hours.
3-oven 20-30 min
I tried to standardize around 1kg total bread flour.
Im flexible on that and all other criteria.
Wasnt really sure about yeast % and how that would relate exactly to rising and proofing times
Would welcome feedback, suggestions and so forth before I try my first batch!
TY!
Seems to me that the only issue is that the loaf was undercooked. Most loaves bake for about 50-60 min. You stated 20-30 min. Perhaps the oven temp was too high to begin with if the outside was burning before the inside got a chance to bake?
Still looks delish. I plan to try and see what results I get.
Thanks for the post.