For those of you keeping tabs, I haven't posted about my Sourdough adventures in a while...but I promise something is coming soon. Things have been a bit too busy for the sloooooow sourdough recently. For now, though, I have put poor Morag at the back of the fridge to sleep.
This weekend (and tonight) I turned my kneading hands to wholewheat bread. I've been nervous about mixing my flours, I am not convinced I've entirely "got" bread making yet...but I've been practicing a lot and trying different recipes so I thought...why not!?
Dan Lepard's Wholewheat recipe in Short & Sweet is for a proper 100% wholewheat loaf...I wasn't exactly ready to attempt that monster. I say monster only because I have read about the heartaches of baking wholewheat loaves...loaves that come out of the oven like bricks...I didn't think I was emotionally strong enough to cope with that. So, instead I took advice and adapted my regular white loaf. I substituted 1/4 white flour with wholewheat and upped the yeast to 1-1/2 tsp. I also needed about 70ml more water.
I am really happy with the result. I know I say this a lot...but it constantly amazes me how wonderful my bread tastes, and feels and looks. I haven't bought a loaf from the supermarket in months...and I really don't want to.
now that is a handsome looking loaf!
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