I try to keep my loaves around the 50% whole grain level for health reasons and decided I should just bite the bullet and go for 100% this time.
Ingredients:
- 350g home milled hard red winter wheat (Redeemer)
- 75g home milled spelt
- 85g starter at 100% hydration (my starter did contain some KABF so technically the loaf is more like 95% whole grain)
- 360g water
- 10g salt
Process:
- Mill grain
- Sift out biggest pieces of bran and soak in hot water to reincorporate later (only got about 20g of bran since I don't have a real sifter)
- 2-stage levain build
- 3 hour autolyse
- Added starter and soaked bran to autolyse at 4:45pm followed by 5 min Rubaud method
- After 30 minutes add salt followed by 6 min Rubaud method
- After 15 minutes do 2 more min Rubaud method
- fold on counter
- laminate 30 min after fold
- let dough rest for 1 hour
- coil fold, wait 30 min, coil fold again (I had planned on 3x coil fold, but when I went to perform the 3rd I decided the dough was at risk of overproofing at the 3h 45min mark with room temp around 77)
- Shape and proof in fridge for 7-8 hours
- Bake in DO for 22 min at 500 and then with lid off for 21 min at 475
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That loaf looks SUPERB !
What a gorgeous loaf! I’ve yet to venture to a 100% loaf. Maybe one day.
I'm really happy with how this came out. I'm going to try and make a few more to learn and build my confidence.
Wow Ilene, the crumb and oven spring are outstanding especially since it is 100% whole grain. That is incredible, you must be so pleased.
Benny
I buy grains from the organizers of the greenmarket system in NYC and their pricing system really rewards buying in bulk (roughly $5/lb for 1lb, $3.33/lb if you buy 3 lbs, or $1/lb if you buy 25 lbs). Of course this means that I buy 25lbs! I just ordered a 25lb sack of organic rye berries so I need to improve my 100% whole grain skills!
Well done! That's an impressive bake! Will give this a try in the winter!!
very nice whole grain loaf. It’s quite different than the half whole grain loaves, i find. Softer, grassier ( in a good way). I use an all rye starter for my ww breads and find the spelt-rye combo especially pleasing. If you keep them ( the spelt +rye) at or below 25% of the grain, it handles pretty much like hard wheat.
I look forward to using rye in combination with spelt. Rye is definitely going to be a learning curve. I love using spelt.
who told me to use rye+spelt several years ago. And she was right.
Just picked up my Danko Rye yesterday so I'm trying a 40% rye, 30% wheat, and 30% spelt tin loaf today!