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I baked 2 loaves of DMSnyder's SJSD and they disappeared overnight.... so decided I'd make something that at least seemed more healthy.

A while ago Joze created an amazing version of Maurizio's 50/50 during a community bake which I loved doing at the time ..http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/56967/50-wholewheat-community-bake-jozes-version

The French typically use 10-17% rye flour and T80 flour for the rest.

Here in New Zealand I have limited choices.  But I have a flour mill.  So I've been making a flour close to T110 as follows:

There is a graph going around which compares the growth of yeast to LAB across the temperature range.  The yeast being compared is C. milleri.  What disturbs me about this graph is that people interpret it as being the only yeast relevant to their sourdough.  It's not.

Mixed Grain Sourdough Bread 

March, 2019

David M. Snyder

After the disappointing attempt to replicate Larraburu Brothers' San Francisco Sourdough Bread, I needed solace. The best cure for failure is to get up and do better. 

Polish Milk Rye (chleb z mlekiem) from The Rye Baker, page 309.  It uses  a wet rye sponge as well as commercial yeast and has 60% medium rye (home ground and sifted), 40% bread flour, eggs, milk, molasses, and caraway seeds.

It's was a fast developing dough that shaped easily with gentle handling.  It's tasty and has quite a subtle flavor and would go with practically anything.  I can't recall working with a dough with such low hydration (~60%) since I started making sourdough.

So I scored these breads all from the same batch of dough. As you see the ear on the one is so nice but in the others my scores seem as though the dough is over fermented. These came out of the fridge and into the oven.

Any thoughts?

Ladies and gentlemen, I proudly present to you… another over-fermented loaf! :) You see, that’s what happens when you think to yourself, “No big deal, the dough can wait for another 30 minutes,” but it’s in fact more than enough time for proteases to go wild and destroy the structure of your dough…

30% Sprouted Buckwheat + White Wheat SD

Dough flour (all freshly milled):

It's been a long last year and my starter - Charlie - has been pretty neglected. I'm finally getting back into baking some nice bread. I didn't have any whole wheat flour in the house, so made a Tartine basic country loaf using unbleached locally milled bread flour.  I used coil folds instead of stretch and folds inspired by Trevor's technique. During bulk the structure really seemed to develop well.  I gave it a fourteen hour cold retard and baked it this morning. It had a beautiful oven spring - it easily doubled.

Thank you David (dmsnyder) for the inspiration. Saw your bake and had to try it myself. 

Saturday Morning 11am: Freshening

• 4g starter
• 12g water
• 8g whole rye flour

Fermented for 6 hours at 26°C (78.8°F)

Saturday Afternoon 5pm: Basic Sour