{"id":181,"date":"2005-04-16T21:06:42","date_gmt":"2005-04-16T21:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=181"},"modified":"2005-04-16T21:06:42","modified_gmt":"2005-04-16T21:06:42","slug":"sourdough_bread_try_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Sourdough Bread try #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI tried another bread experiment today.  My goal was to figure out a basic recipe for my current sourdough culture.  If you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamzy.info\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/experimentation.html\">remember<\/a>, I switched to a more watery pancake-like mixture.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo, I decided to start with 2 cups of flour by weight (240 grams).  Next, I added 8 grams of Kosher salt.  And then I started to add the culture in small amounts.  I would stir and check to see if all of the flour was incorporated into a ball.  If there was still dry flour left, I would add more culture and continue the process.  I finally stopped after adding a total of 300 grams of the culture.  Of course, what is the <a href=\"http:\/\/samartha.net\/SD\/tests\/Hydr01\/\">hydration<\/a> of my current batch of culture?  This is the big unknown in the equation.  There are amounts of flour, water, yeast, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyx.net\/~dgreenw\/howdolacticbacteriaaffects.html\">lactobacillus<\/a> (what do pickles, cheese, yogurt, bread, salad mixture in a bag, intestines, and a female reproductive organ have in common?),  and ethanol.  This is an exercise that will be left up to the reader.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe result was a dough of 545 grams (3 were lost) that was formed into an 10&#8243; x 5&#8243; x 1\/2&#8243; rectangle and put into a silicone bread pan.  I sprayed water into another pan and put it on top and then placed them both into the oven (with the light on) to proof.  After six hours, I baked it at 425 degrees Fahrenheit for 40 minutes.  After taking the loaf out of the pan, I discovered that it rose 2&#8243; for an increase of 4X.  Not bad!  This tells me that I need to double the recipe for one loaf of bread.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n4 cups of flour (480 grams)<br \/>\n2 tablespoons of Kosher salt (16 grams)<br \/>\n18 ounces of starter (600 grams)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nP.S.:  I bought some halogen work lights to illuminate the bread.  Wow!  What a clear example that I need to learn about the white point feature of the camera.  And I need to save the images in RAW format, so I can try to undo mistakes like this&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Pictures after the cut:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/BreadTry3_1s.jpg\" alt=\"Bread #1\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/BreadTry3_2s.jpg\" alt=\"Bread #2\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/BreadTry3_3s.jpg\" alt=\"Bread #3\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/BreadTry3_4s.jpg\" alt=\"Bread #4\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried another bread experiment today. My goal was to figure out a basic recipe for my current sourdough culture. If you remember, I switched to a more watery pancake-like mixture. So, I decided to start with 2 cups of flour by weight (240 grams). Next, I added 8 grams of Kosher salt. And then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}