November 17, 2023 - 7:28am
Starting to see some progress with demi-baguettes
Based on Michael Suas' recipe for baguettes with poolish, from "advanced bread and pastries".
overall dough formula, 175g per demi-baguette:
99.5% bread flour (12%, hard winter wheat)
0.5% diastatic malt flour
68% water
2.2% salt
0.5% yeast
33% of the flour was prefermented in a poolish, with 0.1% yeast, for about 18 hours at room temp (my kitchen is pretty cold at the moment, 16-18c)
Bulk took around 3-4 hours, final proof was 1 hour, and I cooked on a large baking stone in a gas oven set to 220c. I cooked them covered for the first 15 minutes, and then uncovered for another 15 minutes to brown.