The learning continues. Thanks to receiving a cornucopia of suggestions on my previous bake of the Bouabsa Pullman I moved forth and applied some of those changes, further upgrading my nascent Pullman pan skills.
This recipe is based on Hamelman's 80% Rye with a Rye Flour Soaker from Bread (3rd Ed.). I followed the recipe as written with two exceptions. I used a mash at 125% hydration instead of a soaker at 100% hydration, and I used a 50:50 barley:rye flour in the mash instead of all rye flour. The recipe calls for Medium Rye but states that Whole Rye can be substituted. I used fresh milled Whole Rye.
Here is my quasi recipe for this bread
Stage 1, scald
In a 6oz mason jar I scald 3 rounded tablespoons of whole rye flour with some boiling water, mix it into sticky mass, add 1 teaspoon of white rye malt, mix well, cover and let stand in a warm place for about 2-3 hours
Stage 2, kvas (liquid preferment)
Kümmel-Bier Brot (Caraway Beer Bread) from The Rye Baker book. This bread is for lovers of caraway seed (sorry Benny!); it has a whopping 2% caraway seed. The bread is 50% rye and 50% first clear or high-gluten flour, barley malt syrup, and beer for half the liquid. The recipe calls for 2:1 white/medium rye to approximate German 997 rye flour. I did not have any white rye flour but used all medium rye (KA brand) and increased the hydration from 60% to 65%. Vital wheat gluten was used to boost KA bread flour to 14% gluten; beer was Destihl Weissenheimer hefeweizen.
My liquid preferment became active and bubbly yesterday. The taste turned from sweet to pleasantly acidic. Early in the morning I made a preferment, which probably will be ready in 12 hours or so
I received The Bread Baker's Apprentice as a gift this year, which I hadn't baked from yet. I also have a bag of Central Milling's Old World Bread Flour I got this Fall, which is my favorite bread flour I've tried so far, but due to my fondness for whole grain home milling, I haven't been using it. I put them together to make Reinhart's simple Pizza Napoletana recipe and to get some practice with instant yeast.
574 g flour
12.5 salt
3 g yeast
25 g olive oil
411 g water
Dough:
Bread flour, 800g
Mashed potatoes (they had some dill in them) 200g
Water, 520g
Diastatic malt, 10g
Salt, 12 g or to taste
Olive oil, two splashes
Toppings:
1. Grape tomatoes, cut in half, oregano
2. Mashed potatoes, scooped with a teaspoon, spicy vegan sausage, herbs (dried chive blossoms and thyme)
I also used emulsion of water, olive oil and salt on both focaccias
Version 2.0
Last week I made a lemon cranberry kugelhof and quite enjoyed it. However, Naturaleigh mentioned getting more out of my lemon zest by mashing it with the sugar. I started wondering what other innovations I could try to amplify flavour, loft and richness.
Modifications
I modified last week's recipe as follows:
I made a batch of pizza dough balls last night for next week's and it just occurred to me to steal one to make a baguette this morning, which is exactly what I did. It had 20% WW, 30% whole grain Kamut, and the rest was with bread flour. My pizza and baguette doughs share the same recipe except the pizza dough had a lower hydration and less developed, all made with a 95% biga and a 5% SD starter. I was very pleased with the expansion in the oven, which had twice the height and roundness of a 50% rye loaf I baked yesterday.
I was looking for something different that included cranberries and found this: https://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/66533/cranberry-poppy-seed-and-grapefruit-kamut-sourdough.
