Bread – Saturday White Bread
From flour, water, salt, yeast
Ingredients (for ~1lb loaf)
- 500g plain flour
- 11g salt (2tsp)
- 2g dried yeast (1/2tsp)
- 360g water (32-35C)
Method
- autolyse. mix both flours, then add the warm water. and mix till combined. Wait 20-30 min
- mix. add salt and yeast. mix dough (pincer method, fold, rest, pincer method, fold, rest)
- fold 1, 10 minutes after mixing
- fold 2, 1 hour after fold 1
- shape, 5 hours after mixing
- oven on, dutch oven in at 245 to pre-heat, 30 min after shaping
- bake, inside dutch oven, 45 min after oven on
- bake with lid off, about 30 min after starting bake
- finish, about 20 minutes after lid off
- rest, on a cooling rack, for about 20 minutes after finishing
e.g.
- 0900 autolyse
- 0930 salt & yeast & mix
- 0940 first fold
- 1040 second fold
- 1430 shape
- 1500 oven on
- 1545 bake with lid on
- 1615 lid off
- 1635 finish