Botched scoring but flavour and crust very nice on both. Ok, botched shaping on sticks too.
A fun bake. Followed recipe from JH's 'Bread' to a T but baked boule in cast iron pot.
Very nice bread, completed from converting the wheat sourdough starter to an active rye starter to out of the oven in less than 12 hours. The bread is soft and mildly sweet. The perfect vehicle for a nice spreadable butter, low lighting, and conversation! The flour makeup for this bake (for all intents and purposes) checks all the boxes for the C.B. clocking in at 48.3% whole stone-ground rye.
I haven’t been able to definitively find out what the difference between shokupan and Hokkaido milk bread is. What I think is correct is that shokupan has less sweetness to it than Hokkaido milk bread. If that is the case then I think my recent formulas for Hokkaido milk bread with the decreased sugar probably are more like a shokupan. For this bake I wanted to know whether or not I really needed the VWG in the dough or not. I also decided that I would also shape differently for shokupans than Hokkaido milk breads to further differentiate them by look.
Baked my weekly 50% wholegrain baguette this morning per following spec:
25% wholegrain red fife from Breadtopia
25% WW from Bob's Red
50% bread flour from KA
77% hydration
Did a Biga preferment with all the flours for 24 hours in my 55-degree F basement
0.2% instant yeast
2% salt
Mix with a spiral mixer for about 25 min
Dough temp was consistently kept at around 80-degree F throughout the process
Bulk ferment for about 2.5 hours starting from the mixing, pre-shape, final shape, and final proof within another 1.5 hours
Another everything but the kitchen sink bread. A friend of mine suggested these add-ins so here we are!
Recipe
Makes 3 loaves
Add-ins
200 g mixed sliced olives
225 g old cheddar cheese, grated
27 g fresh chopped scallions
2 tsp minced garlic in oil
Main Dough
100 g freshly milled Selkirk wheat flour
100 g freshly milled rye flour
100 g freshly milled Red Fife wheat flour
775 g unbleached strong bakers flour
I am not sure what to think of this sandwich rye loaf. Honestly, I am disappointed. That being said, the hard crust and dense yet soft crumb taste so good with a pad of butter. At 79% whole rye, not a brick at all. Please see below, I posted some photos of my method as well as my doctored formula. The link to the translatable original formula is also included.
I am always open to constructive comments. Thanks for stopping by.
Kind regards,
Will F.
Made another bread with all ruchmehl - a Swiss "semi whole" wheat flour. Used some quite old unfed rye starter from the fridge (maybe around 25 g?), 450 g ruchmehl, 330 g warm water, 11 g salt. Mixed with a hand mixer and spiral attachments until moderate gluten development. Did three folds about 30 min apart, then left at around 28ºC for a few hours, until nicely grown and airy. Preshaped, and then shaped into a batard, left to final proof overnight on the balcony. Baked in the morning on steel 230ºC around 15 min with steam, then 210ºC without steam until good colour.
Inspiration
Lance (albacore) recently made some Chelsea buns that finally pushed me into making a cinnamon-style bun. My mother used to buy cinnamon buns at the supermarket and they were pretty bad and slathered in icing. She'd heat them up in the toaster oven as a treat. The thing I remember most was their bread part was flavourless and then you'd get a bit of cinnamon and an overly-sweet icing.
This is my second attempt at home solod (unroasted this time).
This recipe for Black Rye Bread with Buttermilk is from Der Foodcoach blog. I did not have Austrian R960 (light) rye flour or fresh yeast and used King Arthur Medium Rye and IDY instead. But I do have a lot of Wingold Dark Rye from Bay State Milling via NYBakers that was used for the Schwarzroggen (black rye).
