December 28, 2015 - 11:11am
quick help please with a levain issue
So… I'm following Ken Forkish recipes in Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast. My starter is great, I'm on schedule, my bread is turning out wonderful.
Today I got up and made the bacon all levain bread. However, I must have been tired. I used my levain after 24 four hours since its last feeding. Ken's recipe calls for making the bread in the evening before… I usually do.
Any way to fix this? Would a longer slow rise in the fridge help instead of his recommended 12 hours on the shelf? I guess I'm worried that I used my levain at its weakest moment (except when I let it go for a year in the fridge, but thats another story…) and not sure if there is a good fix.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Don
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Hi Don. I notice you never got a reply to your post back in December. How did the bread turn out? Any learnings that the rest of us can benefit from? I often use my starters when they are 'off-peak' and the results vary. I haven't recorded anything consistently though so I don't have any hard and fast rules to share. I suppose that, if you are going to feed a starter by adding flour and water to it, even if that is in the process of making your final dough, then it will eventually regain strength.