First loaf – counting it as a success!

This was my first ever loaf after a class with Sourdough For The People. Starter and recipe from the class (St. Pete Fl)

Ingredients:

375g water

100g starter

50g whole wheat flour (+ a little extra for dusting throughout)

450g bread flour

10g salt

Steps (you can follow her steps – YouTube: SourdoughForThePeople)

1. Pour 350g warm water into a bowl, add 100g active starter to bowl, whisk until dissolved

2. Add 50g whole wheat flour and 450g bread flour to bowl with starter and water and mix until it’s all wet and forms a shaggy ball, cover with a damp tea towel

3. Wait 30 mins

4. Add 10g salt and 25g water to the bowl, gently distribute and dissolve the salt evenly. Do ~5 slap folds to incorporate (so you don’t feel any more salt grains)

5. Wait 30 mins

6. With wet hands, do coil folds to fold the dough onto itself (4 folds total)

7. Wait 30 mins

8. Do a second round of 4 coil folds

9. Wait 30 mins

10. Do a third round of 4 coil folds

11. Wait at least 2 hours

12. Gently guide the load from a bowl onto a flat surface, use bench scraper to move under the bread around 180° (creating surface tension), gently cover and tuck with tea towel

13. Wait 20 mins

14. Flour a lined banneton. Lightly cover the surface of the bread with a small amount of flour and smooth it with your fingers, tuck the excess under with the bench scraper. Then flip the dough gently onto itself other side and flatten out with your fingers.

15. Fold into thirds, then rotate and fold into thirds again, then flip the loaf into the banneton.

16. Wait 10 mins

17. Stitch the bottom and ends

18. Cover and put in the fridge overnight

19. Preheat oven to 450° with Dutch oven in it, 15 mins before baking, put dough into freezer. Lay down parchment paper dusted with flour and flip dough onto it, gently place into Dutch oven and dust the top of the dough gently with flour.

20. Score, then bake for 20 mins covered (at 450°), and then 20 mins uncovered (450°)

21. Let rest for at least 20 mins on a wire rack before cutting into it.