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Bread: Tuscan Country Bread

5 from 7 votes
Total Time 5 hours 30 minutes
Course Dinner
Cuisine European
Servings 6 people
Calories 63 kcal

Ingredients
 

For the pre-dough:

  • 20 g Yeast fresh
  • 8 tbsp Lukewarm water
  • 1 tsp Sugar
  • 5 tbsp Wheat flour type 550

For the main dough:

  • 300 g Wheat flour type 550
  • 50 g Whole wheat flour
  • 50 g Rye flour type 997
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 50 g Sourdough
  • 300 ml Lukewarm water
  • Flour to work with
  • Oil to work

Instructions
 

  • For the pre-dough, crumble the yeast in a bowl and stir with the water until smooth. Add sugar and flour and mix well, cover and let rise in a warm place for 30 minutes.
  • For the main dough, roughly mix the flour, salt and sourdough with the starter dough. Add 250 ml water and stir with the food processor for 5 minutes until the dough loosens from the edge of the bowl
  • Fold the dough on a floured work surface for 10 minutes and press. Dust with a little flour again and again, sprinkle a bowl with flour and cover the dough for 3 hours until its volume has tripled.
  • Knead the dough on a floured work surface for another 10 minutes until the dough is nice and elastic. Oil your hands and bowl. Fold the dough up 3 times and cover it in the Schüssek for another 2 hours until its volume has doubled.
  • Preheat the oven to 230 C ° (convection not suitable), grease a baking sheet and let the dough slide out of the bowl onto the sheet. Dust the surface with flour.
  • Place an ovenproof bowl of water on the bottom. Bake the tray on the 2nd rail from the bottom for about 45 minutes, then leave to cool on a rack.

Nutrition

Serving: 100gCalories: 63kcalCarbohydrates: 10.7gProtein: 2.6gFat: 1.1g
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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 25 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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