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fabledshadow replied to your photo “It worked! My first sourdough loaf was against all indications a…”
Yay bread! Isn’t it satisfying?
It should NOT have worked.
I started with this recipe [https://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/best-ever-sourdough-oatmeal-bread-zbcz1311] and I used some slightly soured milk for it because that’s what I had, and so I scalded the milk so that whatever was growing in it and making it sour wouldn’t take over the sourdough. Which I thought, is a technique I’ve used elsewhere, should be fine, why would it matter? you can use whatever liquid, right? Let it cool, dumped it in, made the dough.
Supposed to be a “loose dough”, it was dry almost to the point of crumbs even though I’d used more milk than the recipe said. I was dubious, but thought, well, sometimes as things sit they loosen up? So I let it rise on the counter for an hour, and then kneaded it in a bowl and added more water because it was so dry, and then let it rise in a bowl for four more hours and then put it in the fridge because I wasn’t ready to bake it? and then took it out in the morning and it was SO DRY. I put it into two loaf pans by holding it between my hands and snapping it in half, and i was like, THIS IS TOO DRY. So I put it back into the bowl and literally held it under the tap to drip more and more water in, probably like a cup of water? it was a lot. I was fed up.
I let it rise for another two hours, then divided it again and slopped it into the two greased loaf pans and was like this is absolutely not going to work at all.
But I baked it, because I was fed up. At this point, the dough’s been going for like. 48 hours. It’s a disaster. It’s not going to work.
And I baked it and it’s fine. It’s just… it’s fine. The oats are gone, it’s kind of dense but not hard. And it is, boy, it is intensely sour, for a bread.
So! It worked! But should not have! Next time I will try to follow the recipe more faithfully!
fabledshadow replied to your photo “It worked! My first sourdough loaf was against all indications a…”
Yay bread! Isn’t it satisfying?
It should NOT have worked.
I started with this recipe [https://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/best-ever-sourdough-oatmeal-bread-zbcz1311] and I used some slightly soured milk for it because that’s what I had, and so I scalded the milk so that whatever was growing in it and making it sour wouldn’t take over the sourdough. Which I thought, is a technique I’ve used elsewhere, should be fine, why would it matter? you can use whatever liquid, right? Let it cool, dumped it in, made the dough.
Supposed to be a “loose dough”, it was dry almost to the point of crumbs even though I’d used more milk than the recipe said. I was dubious, but thought, well, sometimes as things sit they loosen up? So I let it rise on the counter for an hour, and then kneaded it in a bowl and added more water because it was so dry, and then let it rise in a bowl for four more hours and then put it in the fridge because I wasn’t ready to bake it? and then took it out in the morning and it was SO DRY. I put it into two loaf pans by holding it between my hands and snapping it in half, and i was like, THIS IS TOO DRY. So I put it back into the bowl and literally held it under the tap to drip more and more water in, probably like a cup of water? it was a lot. I was fed up.
I let it rise for another two hours, then divided it again and slopped it into the two greased loaf pans and was like this is absolutely not going to work at all.
But I baked it, because I was fed up. At this point, the dough’s been going for like. 48 hours. It’s a disaster. It’s not going to work.
And I baked it and it’s fine. It’s just… it’s fine. The oats are gone, it’s kind of dense but not hard. And it is, boy, it is intensely sour, for a bread.
So! It worked! But should not have! Next time I will try to follow the recipe more faithfully!
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Date: 2020-02-17 02:03 pm (UTC)