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Yesterday's Sourdough

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Floydm

Yesterday's Sourdough

Fed the starter dark rye flour Sunday evening.  Monday morning combined:

1000g bread flour

680g warm water

Left that as an autolyse for half an hour, then added:

20g salt

180g ripe starter

Mixed it briefly.  Stretched and folded every hour over the next three hours, then put it in the fridge.

Mid-morning Tuesday, pulled it out of the fridge and divided the dough into three loaves.  Shaped them and let them rise for about 90 minutes, then baked them at 465F covered for 15 minutes and uncovered another 30. 

 I'm pretty pleased with the result I get when I feed my starter dark rye flour then bake with bread flour.  The rye livens up the starter and adds just touch of tang, but the loaf is still quite light. 

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lumos

Lovely loaves, Floyd. Just the sort of crumb I love. :)

 

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Floydm

Thanks!

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Our Crumb

Thems look awful good, Floyd!

You must be one of those stay at home internet types if you can "Mid-morning Tuesday, pulled it out of the fridge...". 

Lucky guy.  Nice baking!

Tom

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Floydm

Thanks!

Heh, yes, the past few months I've been making the switch from being a "nine to five in the office" kinda guy to "on the internet from somewhere all the time" guy.  It does open up more baking opportunities, though I'll admit I still often get so sucked into whatever I'm working on that I forget about my dough and over-ferment or over-proof it.  Time to start using a timer!

-F

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linder

I love the crumb on that sourdough bread.  Thanks for posting some great baking.

Linda

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Floydm

Thanks, Linda.

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Isand66

Great looking bread Floyd.  Your crust and crumb look ideal and it must have tasted as good as it looks.

Regards,
Ian

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Floydm

Thanks, Ian.  Yes, it's pretty good.

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dabrownman

me but I'm a brownman and you can't change heritage as easy as flours.

Nice baking Floyd.  That is some awful nice bread.

Happy baking

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Floydm

Ha.  Thanks, dabrownman.

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dmsnyder

David

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Floydm

Thanks, David.

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hanseata

Definitely not a "Yesterday Bread".

Karin