I tried to make Shiao-Ping's recipe for chocolate sourdough and I added walnuts and 160g chocolate stout to replace sone of the water. This recipe had a 37% starter % inoculation so I was really curious about how it would work. It smells amazing, but the oven spring was a little underwhelming. In the fridge, the dough kind of cracked which is something I hadn't experienced before. I think in part it was because the dough was lower hydration and much stiffer than I'm used to, but also maybe it was a sign of overproofing - not sure.
I think I made a mistake when incorporating the chocolate and walnuts during lamination is I ended up tearing the gluten. Next time I would probably use slap and fold to add the chocolate and really develop the dough. I feel like this dough could have used even more mixing/gluten development as the cocoa powder really impedes the process. The crumb is definitely different - a bit crumbly and moist in parts although I'm pretty sure it's fully baked. The taste is very good, but it's more like cake than bread. At first I thought it was overproofed, but now I think that maybe there just wasn't enough gluten development and that I did some damage during lamination. What do you think my looking at the crumb?
Fun to try something new! This was also my first time using coil folds and I enjoyed it.
Day 1 | 8:00 AM | Build 1 | |
6:00 PM | Build 2 (put in fridge overnight) | ||
Day 2 | 9:00 AM | Build 3 (FINAL) | |
2:30 PM | Autolyse | ||
3:00 PM | Mix 4 min autolyse, levain, vanilla, honey | ||
3:45 PM | Mix 4 min adding salt | ||
4:20 PM | Start Coil Fold on counter | ||
5:00 PM | Lamination on counter and add chocolate chips | ||
5:30 AM | Coil fold 2x 30 min apart | ||
6:00 PM | shape & leave on counter for 1.5 hours | ||
7:20 PM | Into fridge | ||
Day 3 | 5:30 AM | Bake |
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That sounds delicious!