Spelt bread with sourdough and buttermilk

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 5 tbsp wheat starter (approx. 75 g for my spoon size)
• 70 g wheat flour type 550
• 70 g water, lukewarm
• 250 g spelt flour type 630
• 250 g wheat flour type 550
• 200 g buttermilk
• 200 g water
• 1 tsp beetroot syrup
• 18 g salt
• ½ cube of fresh yeast
• n. B. Flour
• n. B. water

Instructions

Working time approx. 20 minutes; Rest time approx. 10 hours; Cooking/baking time approx. 40 minutes; Total time approx. 11 hours

simply bake in a roasting pan

For the sourdough, mix the wheat flour and lukewarm water and add 5 tablespoons of the starter from the refrigerator. Mix everything well and let it rise for 6-8 hours. For the dough, dissolve the yeast in 50g of water and stir in the sugar beet syrup. Set the yeast water aside and measure out all the other ingredients. Take 70g of the sourdough and place it in the refrigerator as new starter. Place the remaining sourdough, flour, salt, buttermilk, water, and yeast water in a large bowl and knead with a food processor on low speed for about 10 minutes. Add a little more flour if the dough is too soft, or a little water if it is too dry and doesn’t mix. After about 10 minutes, transfer the dough to a clean, floured bowl and cover. Let it rest for about 1-2 hours and almost double in size. Once the dough has risen well, preheat the oven to 240°C (top/bottom heat) and place the roasting pan in the oven without the lid. I use an oval, black goose roasting pan. Place baking paper in the roasting pan lid and carefully slide the finished dough into the lid. Lift the paper up at the sides and place the dough in the hot roasting pan. Replace the lid and bake the bread for approx. 40 minutes. After approx. 15 minutes, reduce the temperature to 200°C (top/bottom heat). Once the baking time is over, remove the bread from the roasting pan and tap it to check that it is cooked through. If necessary, bake it for another 10-15 minutes in the switched off oven. Every oven is different, so only approximate baking times are given.