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Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread Recipe

Ingredients
  

  • 200 g starter hard white See Note
  • 350 g milk 1 1/2 cup
  • 1 egg
  • 40 g sugar 1/8 cup
  • 250 g organic all-purpose or sifted bread flour 1 3/4 cup
  • 350 g fresh-milled spelt flour 3 cups
  • 30 g melted butter 1/8 cup
  • 9 g salt
  • 20 g water

Instructions
 

  • Mix in this order: starter, milk, egg, sugar, melted butter, organic all-purpose or sifted bread flour, spelt flour
  • Add salt and water. poke and fold in with hands.
  • Do 2 Stretch and folds 45 minutes apart. Note: make sure dough is in a warm place. See Note for creating the perfect warm place.
  • Ferment another 1 hour in a warm place. Look for signs of fermentation, remembering the dough will ferment for 1 more hour in the loaf pans so do not over-ferment. Hint: if the dough has some bubbles, has risen by 30-50%, and comes out of the bowl clean, the dough is fermented enough.
  • Shape and put in loaf pan to let rise 1 hour.
  • Turn oven on conventional bake 410° with roasting pan warming in the oven as it preheats.
  • Score loaves down the middle (this will give your bread a nice oven spring.) Place your 2 loaf pans in roasting pan and add 6 ice cubes into the roasting pan. Close the lid on the roasting pan.
  • Bake for 45 minutes or until Internal temperature reads 200°

Notes

Note on levain AKA starter: Make levain the night before - 40g starter, 120g water, 120g whole wheat flour (I use freshly milled). This makes about 250g of levain (enough for baking in the morning and feeding for next bake.)
Note on keeping dough warm: Preheat the oven at 350 degrees for 1 minute. Turn oven off, and keep dough in a bowl covered inside the oven. This creates the perfect temperature for fermenting dough quickly. In summer months, you may be able to ferment your dough on the counter with the same effect.