Normandy Apple Bread
Bread - Normandy Apple Bread
| Main recipe | ||
| Weight | Ingredient | Baker's % |
| 725.81 | Wheat flours, bread, unenriched | 90.00% |
| 80.65 | Wheat flour, whole-grain | 10.00% |
| 548.39 | Water, tap, drinking | 68.00% |
| 16.13 | Salt, table | 2.00% |
| 8.06 | Leavening agents, yeast, baker's, active dry | 1.00% |
| 120.97 | Apples, dried, sulfured, uncooked | 15.00% |
| 1,500.00 | Sub total | 186.00% |
| Weight | Ingredient | Baker's % |
| 145.16 | Wheat flours, bread, unenriched | 18.00% |
| 87.10 | Water, tap, drinking | 10.80% |
| 232.26 | Sub total | 28.80% |
| Final stage | ||
| Weight | Ingredient | Baker's % |
| 580.65 | Wheat flours, bread, unenriched | 72.00% |
| 80.65 | Wheat flour, whole-grain | 10.00% |
| 461.29 | Water, tap, drinking | 57.20% |
| 16.13 | Salt, table | 2.00% |
| 8.06 | Leavening agents, yeast, baker's, active dry | 1.00% |
| 120.97 | Apples, dried, sulfured, uncooked | 15.00% |
| 232.26 | 28.80% | |
| 1,500.00 | Sub total | 186.00% |
This Formula is from one of the greatest bread book "BREAD" it has been on my baking list for so long, as im too lazy to dried apple myself i have been putting it on hold till my dried apples supplies arrive.
Pre-ferment
I mixed it all with a little bit of liquid levain the night before i retired, it took around 8 hours to double and ready to go.
Final Dough
1) combined all ingredients except salt, yeast and dried apple.
2) Autolyse for 40mins
3) Add Yeast and Salt and mixed with Pincer Method. Its fully incorporated with another 10 in bowl S&F.
4) S&F @ 30mins mark sprinkle dried apple on top
5) @ 60min Incorporate dried apple by squeezing and S&F
6) @80min Last S&F
7) its ready to be divided @ 115min
Divide
Divided into two piece and pre-shaped it into a boule. I was gonna let it rest for 20 mins, but I was too concentrated on my fishing games. It ended up with almost an hour on the bench.
Final Proof
30 mins on the bench, I guess it must have something to do with the prolonged rest. at 30mins mark it already looked like its ready for the oven.
Bake
Baked in a dutch oven, at 240C for 30mins covered and 25 uncovered.
From the pic, one of them has a paler crust which I suppose is becoz of it has run out of food for my little yeast.
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Comments
Nice Job on this recipe, Cecilia!
I'm curious as to what protein content does your bread flour have? a 90% bread flour bread at 68% hydration should be taller and less flat. Yours indicate that extra water was added, am i right?
Love your talent in baking, your bread baking skills are improving so fast!
Khalid
thank you for ur kind words its flattness is due to the flaw on my shaping. I'm still having problem with shaping with that much of add in. SIGH!
The one scored with a tic tat toe in the pic should have a better volume as I have change the way I shape a boule from one used in tartine to the one used by jeffery. Which I think is easier when it comes to a dough with such low hydration.
also u are right about the hydration. I've up it to around 70% while replacing some of the bread flour with all purpose (11%) I think it must have sth to do with that as well.
Thank so much for ur encouragement. I'm gonna hit the ground l and work on a baguette for the next couple of weeks to improve on shaping skills
You really have gotten a hold of this bread baking stuff. Turning out stunning loaves all the time now. Last time i tried an apple bread it was delish but i used fresh and incorporating was tricky as the wet apples didn't want to blend in the dough. I've been meaning to re-try with dried apples and now I remember.
Great Bake
Josh
Josh
what about reducing the dough hydration by 5-10% with duo apple half dried n half fresh? Instead of diced apple we can have shredded apple.
Havering it dried brings a different flavoR to apple n the bread.
Sounds yum!!
cecilia
Beautiful looking loaf. I will have to look this one up and try it one day. My wife would love it...me...not a big baked apple fan.
Regards,
Ian
Baked apple!! U remind me of my most favorite apple crumble!
Maybe adding some spices to this could turn this into sth completely different
even though it might have been over proofed a bit. No harm though and I'm sure it was tasty. Well done and happy baking CeciC
Thanks dab
i always have issues with over proofing them!
i will definitely have my oven ready before they are fully proof this week *huff*