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White Sourdough Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
800 grams bread flour
10 grams salt
460 milliliters water
320g grams sourdough starter

Directions:
Directions:
Makes 2 loaves. Halve the amounts for a single loaf
Add the flour to a clean mixing bowl. Mix the salt through the flour. Add the water and sourdough starter to the flour. Combine all the ingredients together to form a rough dough.
Turn the dough out on to a clean surface and knead for approximately 10 minutes or until the windowpane effect has been achieved. The dough should be smooth, soft and elastic.
When kneading, do not worry if the dough is slightly wet or sticky. Resist the temptation to add any extra flour.
Return the dough to the mixing bowl, cover with cling film and allow the dough to prove for 4 hours at room temperature.
After 4 hours turn the dough onto a clean work surface and knock the dough back. Knocking back the dough simple involves knocking the air from the dough which helps to equalise the temperature within the dough.
Form the dough into a tight round ball.
Prepare a proving basket by lightly dusting with flour. Place the dough, seamed side facing up, into the proving basket. Loosely cover the proving basket with a clean tea towel and leave to prove for another 3 – 3½ hours.
Alternatively, to prove overnight for baking first thing in the morning, place into a fridge, and leave overnight.
Using a fridge reduces the temperature of the dough allowing it to prove slower and longer which allows for greater development of flavor within the dough but also increasing its digestibility. As dough ferments or proves, the gluten within the dough breaks down. The longer a dough is allowed to prove the more flavor it will contain and the easier it is for your body to digest.
To bake, preheat your oven to 445°F. Place a pizza stone and dutch oven in the oven during preheating.
Carefully turn your dough out from the proving basket onto a baking tray dusted with flour (the domed side with the indentations from the proving basket should now be facing up and the seamed side on the baking tray).
Using a sharp knife cut the surface of the dough, this is what is known as the baker’s signature. The dough can be cut up to ½ cm deep. (This isn’t just for aesthetics, scoring the bread also helps control where and how it rises while baking.) Place the sourdough in the dutch oven in the oven and bake for 15 minutes. Remove lid and back fro an additional 15 minutes or until a good crust has formed and the loaf sounds hollow when tapped on the base.

 

 

 

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