2025-01-22
White bread loaf
Ingredients
- 450g bread flour
- 100g levain (all rye)
- 11g salt
- 300ml (70% hydration (with levain @ 50/50 water to flour))
Process
- Measure and mix all but salt
- Let sit 2 hours (autolyse)
- Mix in salt
- Knead in mixer for 5-8 minutes
- Stretch and fold 3 times over 6 hours of bulk fermentation
- Sat on counter at room temp all day
- Shaped into loaf pan and let sit overnight in fridge
- Rose to top of bread loaf pan
- Rice flour on top and then scored center
- Spring was great and baked at 400 for about 35m
- The score mark did help expansion but the short ends broke at the top of the pan due to the scores not extending to the pans edge
- Cooled on side on wire rack


