Description

French loaf leavened
In anticipation of the upcoming New year I want to share with you the recipe of my last very good bread! If you love French bread, then this is it! Explosive crispy crust, coarse-pored elastic crumb, and what flavor!!! Adding whole grain spelt flour makes this bread delicious! Just bread is the bomb ;)) PS. If it is not possible to buy spelt (spelt) flour, you can replace it with whole wheat.

Ingredients

  • Sourdough

    30 g

  • Water

    80 ml

  • Flour

    80 g

  • Spelt flour

    40 g

  • Sourdough

    200 g

  • Water

    600 ml

  • Flour

    600 g

  • Spelt flour

    350 g

  • Salt

    2 tsp

  • Yeast

    0.5 tsp

  • Vegetable oil

    4 Tbsp

Cooking

step-0
The preparation of the bread takes about a day. I prefer to start refreshing the starter from lunch, and in the morning, as you prefer. The starter from the fridge and refresh with the addition of spelt flour: 30 g of starter + 80 ml of water + 80 g of white flour + 40 g flour spelt. Knead, cover and leave in a warm place (30C) for 3 hours to rise twice and a pleasant fermenting smell. At room temperature, 18-20 C you can leave ferment for 6-8 hours. Take the dough 200 g Mature sourdough, the rest can be sent for storage in the refrigerator.
step-1
In the bowl of a bread machine or in a large bowl put all the ingredients for the dough except the salt and oil. Mix well until smooth. The dough is soft, moist, like a thick porridge (I coarse grind spelt flour). Leave for autolysis for 30-45 minutes. Then add the salt and make the dough about 15 minutes by hand or on low speed of the bread maker. If the batter is too runny, add a little white flour - 50 g.
step-2
In any case the dough should be quite wet. Put the dough in well-oiled bowl. Fermentation at room temperature for 2.5 hours.
step-3
During the fermentation process every 40 minutes stretch and fold the dough.
step-4
The dough becomes more elastic, absorbs oil, and at the end of fermentation, gets a decent view and it holds the shape))
step-5
Divided into two parts, roll each into a ball and let rest 30 minutes.
step-6
Molded two loaves (batarda) and placed in baskets, dusted with flour, seam side up.
step-7
I'm comfortable night proving bread in the refrigerator (8-12 hours). At room temperature the bread will come for 2.5 - 3 hours. The bread should rise because of the proofing time to 2 times. Do not forget to cover with foil so not zavetrilos! In the morning, heated the oven with the stone for half an hour to 230-250 C. just before baking, gently turn the workpiece on baking paper, quickly make cuts and put in oven. The bread baked for 7 minutes at maximum temperature, then reduce the temperature to 200 C and Topcem until tender. Total baking time is about 40-50 minutes (depending on light or dark a crust you prefer). The size of my stone lets you bake two loaves at the same time, be guided by your oven - bake one at a time or both at once. And once again, my schedule for this bread: 15:00 Refreshment of the leaven of the 18:00 Pre-batch 18:30 Main batch 18:50 - 22:00 Fermentation, folding, forming. 22:00 - 8:00 Cold proofing in the fridge, 8:30 - 9:30 Pastries For a weekend Breakfast with fresh hot bread ;))
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