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Sourdough bread

How to Make Sourdough Bread

Course Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 1 bread

Equipment

  • Mixing bowls
  • Kitchen towels
  • Cast Iron or thick baking pan
  • Glass bowl

Ingredients
  

For the Leaven

  • 1 tbsp active sourdough starter
  • 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/3 cup water

For the dough

  • 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 tbsp salt

Instructions
 

  • Make the leaven. Add the ingredients of the leaven in a bowl and mix together. Cover and let it sit on the counter top overnight.
  • Dissolve the salt. Dissolve about a 14 cup of water with salt in a bowl and stir until well dissolved
  • Mix leaven and water by adding the remaining water for the dough to the leaven . Use your hands to break down the leaven into the water
  • Add flour into this leaven water mixture and combine to form a very shabby dough
  • Rest the dough for about 30 mins by covering the bowl with a kitchen towel. This is the Autolyse stage where the dough absorbs the water and breaks down the starch and proteins.
  • After resting, mix in the salt by pinching and squeezing it into the dough. It will feel a little wet and sticky and this is fine.
  • Begin the folding process (6 times)which will take about 2 1/2 hours. Refer to the instructions on folding the dough above. Once done let the dough rest for 30 mins.
  • Shape the dough and let it rest again. refer above in the notes under shaping the dough.
  • Prepare your proofing bowl by lining it with a kitchen towel and generously flouring it.
  • Final shaping of the dough by creating cuts and patterns
  • Transfer to the proofing bowl and rest the dough overnight in the fridge.
  • Preheat oven and cast iron to the highest temperature and bake the dough for 45mins- 60 mins. Let the bread cool completely.
Keyword bread, breakfast, sourdough