#10 More Fun With Sourdough Bread Baking

Kamut Sourdough Bread Formula. Khorasan (commonly known as Kamut, which is a trademarked name)Sourdough Bread has 20% by flour weight of freshly ground Khorasan flour. If you don't have access to Khorasan flour, please feel free to substitute any other whole grain flour. I love Khorasan's creamy golden color and wonderful flavor! 

Here's a bit of information on Khorasan wheat and where it came from. 

This formula has 20% Kamut in it. Kamut has a different, more fragile gluten than regular wheat so the dough should be handled with that in mind. 

Pre-shape the dough and then let it bench rest before final shaping. 

Let's finish shaping the dough so we can put it to bed for the night.

The first Kamut loaf is finished proofing, time to score and bake!

The second Kamut loaf is now ready to score and bake!

This is the formula for July Loaf. July loaf has the fresh whole wheaty flavor and aroma of freshly ground wheat, it is a delightful, flavorful loaf. This is an easy loaf with 22% freshly ground whole wheat flour in the formula. If you keep a whole wheat starter, there would be even more. It is at 70% hydration, but the whole grains soak up a lot of the water so the dough feels drier. If you wish to work with an even higher hydration, check the formula for the variation. 

Let's mix up the dough and start the autolyse. 

It's time to add the salt and bulk ferment the dough.

Pre-shape the dough and bench rest. 

Time to final shape the dough and score the first loaf.

The first loaf is baked and the next loaf is scored. 

This is the Formula for Spring Fling Seeded Loaf. This dough has a lot of nice Chia and Flax seeds in it and will make a soft, hearty loaf. The loaf will stay moist for several days because of the seeds.

See how to make up the Spring Fling loaves. 

Dough binders are so much fun and so easy! They make the dough spring up higher and so the oven spring is much greater. 

Cran-Nut Sourdough is made with over 50% freshly milled whole wheat (mixture of white and red wheat). It is cold proofed overnight and baked the next day. The addition of walnuts and cranberries makes a delicious fragrant loaf great served with cream cheese or toasted with lots of butter. This is not a sweet bread and has no sugar added to the dough other than what is in the dried cranberries.

Grind fresh flour and mix the dough then allow it to autolyse. 

It's time to add salt and begin folding the dough to develop strength. 

Scoring is always fun. Score the dough and bake the loaf.

My favorite part, let's slice into the loaf and see what it looks like inside! 

Seeded Khorasan Sourdough Batards have 31% by flour weight of freshly ground Khorasan (Kamut) flour. If you don't have access to Kamut/Khorasan flour, please feel free to substitute any other whole grain flour. I love Kamut's creamy golden color and wonderful flavor! This formula is a variation of the Khorasan Sourdough Boules earlier in the course but it has seeds, is a higher hydration and has more whole grain flour in it. 

After mixing the dough, you will be making up the seed mixture to allow it to cool during the autolyse period. 

Let's shape, score and bake the first Khorasan Seeded Batard. 

Let's bake our batards, they are done proofing and ready for the oven!

The Khorasan batards are finished and sliced, they look ... and taste great! 

ORSW Organic Red Spring Wheat Bread Formula. In this formula I will be using freshly ground wheat berries which have had 7% of the bran extracted from it or what is called 93% extraction rate. I will be using 50% of this wheat flour and 50% of white bread flour. This is a minimal shaped loaf, much like a Ciabatta.  This dough is at 100% hydration. 

Let's start making our lovely high hydration bread. Grind your grain and mix the two flours and the water. 

After autolyse, mix in your starter and then the salt. 

See how the dough looks and feels during folding. 

It's time to shape our loaves. They are roughed shaped and there is no rounding of corners.

In this video see how to bake up these rustic Ciabatta type loaves. 

Time to bake the second batch and slice the loaves... wait until you see inside the loaf!

This formula is a one day Miche with a pre-ferment. It is around 70% (or more) whole grains depending upon your starter and pre-ferment choices. This Miche is just a little over 1 kilo after being baked. There is a variation that will give you two loaves and a higher percentage of whole grains at around 80% of total flour weight. 

With this Miche bread formula, we will be making a pre-ferment first. Have your 100% hydration starter fed the night before. We will be making the pre-ferment first thing in the morning. You will also learn how to figure out the DDT which is the desired dough temperature. It's only an option for the home baker and not really necessary, but fun to know how to do. 

Once the pre-ferment is almost done fermening, the whole grain flours are mixed and autolysed for an hour or more. This helps give the flour time to absorb the water, soften the bran and bond the gluten. 

Once the pre-ferment and autolysed flours are ready, it's time to combine the two into one dough. 

In this video we will fold the dough as it develops during bulk ferment. Folding the dough gives strength to the dough in a gentle manner. 

It's time to shape the Miche and we will be shaping a standard boule which is traditional for the Miche. 

After a day of fermenting, shaping and proofing our loaf, it is ready to bake. 

Ranch Sourdough is formulated to use up some of the coarse bran and grains you may have sitting around after sifting your flour. It is a long fermented sourdough with a moist custardy open crumb and is delicious! 

Prepare the grain for the Ranch sourdough formula. 

Let's mix up our Ranch sourdough, we'll be using the bran from sifted flour. 

Time to add the grains and the salt after autolyse is done. 

Folding the dough helps strengthen the gluten and is a gentle way of developing the dough. 

Pre-shape a boule and a batard. 

Let's final shape our loaves. 

Score and bake the batard. 

Score and bake the boule. 

Stegosaurus Bread Formula - Stegosaurus Bread is a room temperature overnight fermented dough. It uses a 22% freshly ground, high extraction wheat flour in the dough, which produces a fragrant delicious loaf. The scoring is lots of fun and will amaze your family and friends. 

This breads is a long overnight ferment. Let's get started by grinding some fresh flour and mixing up the dough. 

Fold the dough a few times before putting the dough to rest.

Pre-shape the batards and let them bench rest.

After bench rest, shape the final dough and put it in the couch or banneton.

Pre-heat your oven, score and then  bake the first loaf of Stegosaurus Bread. 

Beetroot bread is so fun and quite the centerpiece! It looks stunning wherever it goes. It is an unusual bread, is moist, somewhat dense and very flavorful. We will use a low hydration motherdough at 50% hydration which is made the night before. 

The beets are peeled, baked and pureed the day before the bake. So prepare them and get them into the refrigerator. 

Now add the motherdough, the beet puree, the flour and salt together into a dough. 

It's time to bulk ferment and fold the dough for strength and to develop the dough. 

It's time to pre-shape the beetroot dough and then we can bench rest it for 20 minutes before final shaping. 

The dough is ready to final shape and proof before being baked. 

When the dough is finished proofing, it's time to score and bake!

After baking the Beetroot bread, watch as I slice into it's red crumb! 

This quiz is just for fun!

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