I'm not a excellent baker. Most of what I can is learned from a book of a Swedish baker, Jan Hedh. I'm not familiar with facts about baking outside the book and now I learned something new on Steemit. I read this post by user and tried some of the tricks he recommended for baking bagel. However I'm not baking bagel, but my plain ol' sourdough bread.
The recipe:
200g fully active sourdough
700g of wheatflour
400g of water
10g of yeast
15g of seasalt
Mix sourdough, wheatflour, water and yeast quickly with a mixer until everything is smooth. If the dough seems too wet or too dry (you'll learn to see this) add a little bit of flour or water. The amount of water and flour is up to how dry or moist the flour is, so you'll never know the exact amounts of water and flour before you'll mix the dough.
Leave it to rest for 40 minutes.
If you are using an electric mixer with baking hooks, knead the dough with slowest speed for 7 minutes. Then add the salt and knead the dough for 2 more minutes.
Bake the bread in the form you wish and leave it to rise for 2-3 hours. The regular yeast will help the dough to rise up better, but the sourdough gives the bread a real nice acidic taste and a lot of flavor.
I've had some trouble with sticky dough in my bread baskets, so I tried to use aluminum foil to prevent stickiness from happening. Protip: Don't do it. It sticks in the aluminum and the foil breaks in pieces when you try to remove it.
This is what bread looks like after you have ripped it off from an aluminum foil. It looks bad!
Heat the oven in 250 celsius, add bread in the oven and spray some water in the oven. After 5 minutes of baking, lower the temperature to 200 celsius degrees and let it bake for around 35-40 minutes, depending on the bread size (You can bake at least1-3 breads from this amount of dough). Open the oven 2-3 times during the baking to let extra humidity out.
Remove bread from the oven and enjoy. Crispy crust and tasty bread. Bread is love.
