This post is rather late. Sorry.

On Sunday I made another attempt at dutch oven bread, this time an unenriched loaf. I didn't have a lot of time, so I couldn't do pure sourdough. But I did want some sourness, so I used some starter in addition to poolish as a pre-ferment.

I wasn't really working from a recipe or anything, so I just kinda improvised. I ended up with about 400g each of poolish and sourdough starter. To that I added about 600g of bread flour, some salt, some instant yeast, and enough water to bring it to about 70% hydration.

I let it rise in a plastic tub, then moved it to the dutch oven to proof. After an hour of proofing, I placed the oven in a preheated 550°F oven to bake with the lid on for 20 minutes. Then dropped the temp to 450° and uncovered for 20 more minutes.

It turned out just fine. Not exceptional, but quite tasty (if large. 12in is just too big for a loaf.)

posted: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:57 | permanent link to this entry