i did my own take on maggie glezer's essential columbian that ppl have raved about. i did 50% ww with two over night refrigerated ferments, one bulk ferment and then after shaping the loaves they went back in the refrig for another 16 hours or so. i just pulled the first one out and it's my first try at a batard.....so the shape is pretty rough.....and i should have split the loaves up into 3 bread as they were too big to fit completey under my new long la cloche that i just got.....so part of them stuck out under the cloche and got a bit chared....but i am proud of the scoring of the first loaf, thanks to cndough who referred me to the scarification videos of le peitit boulanger.
here's first loaf pix.....
ww essential columbian (glezer)
here's second loaf....crumb pix tomorrow
ww sourdough essential columbian (glezer)
here's crumb pix
ww sourdough essential columbian (glezer)
taste report: the bread is wonderfully moist, not too sour at all, i guess i'd call it slight - moderately sour w/ good complexity. first bread is history. we cut open the second this morning and it tasted even better than the first.