Sourdough Artisan Bread

Hello,

My girlfriend gave me some sour dough starter, that someone gave to her, and so on.

There are stories some sour dough starters can be hundreds  of years old.

A women somewhere in the United States claims her is 122 years old. I like to think my was part of ancient ancestry.

The process is simple, whatever you use from the starter is replaced called “feeding the starter”

with equal parts of flour and water, I use !/2 cup of flour to !/2 cup of water.

The starter is ready when it appears frothy with air bubbles and has a sour smell.

This process takes a few hours, longer if you keep your starter in the refrigerator, I keep my on the counter,

it will also let you know when it’s hunger, it falls flat, you can revive it by feeding it.

Not all of us are so lucky to have sour dough starter passed down to us from our bread baking friends.

Thankfully, making mother sourdough starter is as simple as stirring together equal parts of flour and water

and letting it sit. no expensive heirloom starters, or mysterious rituals required. To make the mother starter

use the same process as” feeding the starter”.

 

The recipe calls to bake it in a dutch oven, covered the first 30 minutes, uncovered 20 minutes and on the grate the last 10 minutes,

I found the crust too hard when I took it out pan the last 10 minutes so I left it in the dutch oven the whole 30 minutes uncovered.

After  many failed attempts experimenting with different flour combinations,  I like equal parts of whole wheat and white flour.

Something else I learned in my failed attempts at bread making, more isn’t always better, meaning don’T over knead the dough. like i did

wondering why the bread was heavy well that’s why!!!

I have used the same recipe adjusting the water and flour ratio to make focaccia, pizzas, and flat breads.

I was looking for a artisan bread recipe that tasted and looked like the bread I bought at the local bakery,

well I think I found it.

This bread recipe is quick, easy and the start to your bread making journey, it was mine.

Key words quick, easy. favorite equals win-win -win recipe.

If you visit please stay. Enjoy!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ingredients

!/4 cup sourdough starter

2 cups warm water

4 cups flour

1 tablespoon salt

Instruction

Whisk warm water and sour dough starter

Add flour and salt

Knead dough lightly on floured board

Form into circle place in a covered bowl.

Let raise 8 to 10 hours or over night

The second raise

After the dough is almost doubled knead lightly to form a disk

Return to bowl cover dust with flour

Let raise for 1 hour

preheat oven to 450 degrees

Transfer dough to covered dutch oven

with the tip of a sharp knife score bread with X

Bake covered for 30 minutes

Uncover cook 30 minutes longer

Cool sightly before slicing