December 9, 2024 - 12:55pm
Wildfarmed rustico
Before panettone, I tested my new LM starter. I choose to try something of quality... Wildfarmed is a brand in the UK that promotes regenerative farming practices headed up by former DJ and music producer Andy Cato. This bag says its from UK and French wheat, protein is low at 10.x%.
This was circa 70% hydration. I don't have any notes to describe what I did...
I did a flour water only autolyse at 55% hydration for about 3 hours.
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Beautiful loaf Michael and really impressive bloom and crumb especially with the low protein flour. I’m sure it is delicious.
Benny
That looks quite fabulous, doesn't it? Just by coincidence I got to wondering how a real LM would work for raising an ordinary loaf of bread. And here you've gone and answered that for me!
TomP
Great open airy crumb!
Nice wild crumb, Michael. I've used Wildfarmed flour a few times with good results; mine was the 1.5kg bag packaging which seems to have a higher protein content (11.7%). Did your flour come from Waitrose? It doesn't appear to be on the Wildfarmed website.
Did your dough have the stickiness and extensibility of French flour?
Wildfarmed's regenerative principles sound good, but I'd like them to be organic as well.
Lance
Gorgeous.
Benny, Tom, Ian, Lance and Floyd, thanks for your kind words.
@Lance - Indeed this was the retail bag from Waitrose, checking the label, it says 10.8% protein. I don't recall it being overly sticky but perhaps a little, I know my LM starter was too oxidative and it made the final dough exhibits signs of oxidation such as dry talc-like residue on my hands and resistance during mixing.
Happy Christmas to all!
Michael