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Pain Cordon de Bourgogne

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This was first described here by freerk. 

I modified the recipe by not using yeast and using a very active rye starter (100% hydration). As high extraction flour I used Red Fife. The dough was very slack so that I could't really formed a batard, and I used an oblong cloche. The taste was beautiful.

Tom.

An 'experiment' with left over levain

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I hadn't baked for a while and decided to make Field Blend # 2 form K. Forkish's FWSY.

I prepared the levain using 100g active rye sourdough starter and used Red Fife flour instead of the wholewheat.

Then I realized that the recipe calls for only 360g of the levain, and that 640g would be discarded.

Dang! As others said this sounds incredibly wasteful. So I thought of using the 640g of leftover levain.

It had risen nicely over 7 hours or so and looked almost like a poolish.

Dunkles Bauernbrot (dark farmer's bread)

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I tried this recipe yesterday which I found on the popular German site Pötzblog (http://www.ploetzblog.de/2014/08/02/leserwunsch-dunkles-bauernbrot-no-knead/),

essentially a sourdough wheat/rye mix. The author says it is one most of the most read recipes.

I made 2 loaves one in the dutch oven the other one a cloche. I was very pleasantly surprised.

My wife and I ate almost half of a loaf this morning for breakfast.

Tom.