We made bread!!
Spent the day with my fermentation/pickle club putting our first sourdough starter to use!
The day in pictures:
First, brunch. With strawberries, sourdough hot cakes, marion berry compote, oj, and bacon:
Then, bread making. We chose to make a rustic sourdough using this recipe (for the most part anyway).
Here’s our starter, post-use and replenished. I had been tending it for a few weeks before we finally got a chance to use it:
Combined the starter with more flour and warm water to make a leaven, which developed overnight for about 13 hours or so:
Combined the leaven with more flour, water, and salt to make the dough:
An action shot of the dough being folded:
Forming the dough into rounds (next time I think we’ll do this part a bit differently):
The bread resting for 3.5 hours before being baked:
After 20 mins. in the oven:
getting there:
Done!:
Cutting into our first loaf:
Look at that!:
Forgot to get a shot of it being eaten, but let me just say, incredible. So delicious.
Making sourdough bread was quite the all-day experience. It was so much fun and I learned a lot. I can’t wait to try it again and apply what I learned. It filled me up so much to dedicate an entire day to a project like this, with folks who have become sweet friends. I’m looking forward to our next meeting and whatever we get up to next!
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