Sourdough

Ingredients #

IngredientBaker's %Weight (g)
Bread Flour100.000.00
Water71.800.00
Vinegar 5%2.500.00
Salt2.300.00
Instant Yeast2.000.00
Lactic Acid 88%0.700.00
Total179.300.00

Process #

  1. Dissolve lactic acid, vinegar, ascorbic acid into water.
  2. Add liquid to mixing bowl, reserve 10%
  3. Add dry to mixing bowl.
  4. Mix.
  5. Remove dough, divide 500 g balls.
  6. Rest 10 min.
  7. Form into ball, flour ball.
  8. Place into banneton.
  9. Proof.
  10. Preheat baking steel 3/8 in for 1 hr, middle rack at 500 °F.
  11. Turn out onto parchment, pizza peel.
  12. Launch into oven.
  13. Lower temp.
  14. Bake 8 min.
  15. Remove loaf, place on rack, back in oven.
  16. Bake 12 min.
  17. Drop temp.
  18. Bake 12 min.

Notes #

  • Adding acid will slow proof time considerably.
  • 450 g dough / loaf.
  • Cold ferment.