8 April 2017
8 April 2017
8 April 2017
21 April 2017
Seeded Einkorn bread
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100g organic einkorn flour
412g strong, unbleached white flour
15g Chia seeds
15g poppy seeds
337g bottled water
109g sourdough starter
1g baker’s yeast
11g kosher salt
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Put the flour in a mixing bowl. Add the water, sourdough starter, seeds, salt and baker’s yeast. Mix together well and knead the dough for 6 to 8 minutes. Leave to rise covered with a tea towel for about 1.5 hours. Take the dough out of the bowl. Shape into a disc and fold over 4 edges to the centre, turn over and mould into a ball. Cover with a tea towel. Leave the dough to rise on a greased flat baking tray or a well floured banneton (seam up) for 1.5 to 2 hours or until it has doubled in bulk. Pre-heat the oven @ 220°C with a shallow tray of water at the bottom of the oven to create steam. Brush with einkorn flour and slash, as desired, with a lame or razor blade. Bake for 26 minutes. Allow to cool on a wire tray, covered with a tea towel.
This recipe produces a 1kg loaf and it is delicious. When mixing the dough it felt really good and was easy to handle during kneading. It was left to prove for a good 2 hours, even though it was quite a warm day. Once out of the oven the bread was left to cool as normal but I needed to taste some whilst it was still warm! The crust was beautiful and the bread was light and spongy. This will certainly be a loaf which I will repeat again and again. (8 April 2017)