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Crusty Sourdough Dinner Bread Recipe

The chewy crust and soft crumb make this Sourdough Dinner Bread recipe the one to compliment a winter meal, whether dipping in soups or sauces or slathering with butter.  Today I’m sharing the recipe for a sourdough dinner bread that has great dipping qualities for sauces and soups and the mild sourness makes a nice compliment to a savory winter meal. In the summer, I’m certain that it will be the carrier for my tomato and mozzarella sandwiches, or paired with a salad. Mmmm…. salad. I’ve been craving salads something fierce lately. Definitely didn’t grow enough greens this year. Planning for many more leafy things in 2011, but I digress.

Onto the recipe.

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The chewy crust and soft crumb make this Sourdough Dinner Bread recipe the one to compliment a winter meal, whether dipping in soups or sauces or slathering with butter.

The ingredients are few, the directions are many, but it is so worth the work.

Crusty Sourdough Dinner Bread Recipe

4 cups all purpose flour
½ cup whole wheat flour
1 ½ cup sourdough starter
1 ¾ cup water
1 ¾ Tablespoon salt

To the bowl for the dough mixer, add the sourdough starter, water, all-purpose flour, and whole wheat flour in that order. Mix with the dough hook until just incorporated for a minute or so. Shut off the mixer and allow it to just sit for half an hour (autolyse). Add the salt and mix with the dough hook for five minutes or until it reaches “a medium level of gluten development.” Oil a clean countertop and turn out the dough onto the counter. Ferment for 2 1/2 hours with folds at 50 and 100 minutes. Folding replaces  kneading while still developing gluten.

When the fermentation is complete, divide the dough into 2-4 pieces depending on the size of the bowls that you will use to shape the boules. Just use your best judgement.
From Northwest Sourdough:

Fold the edges to the middle all around.This helps get the dough into a rough shape of a ball. Dust the dough with flour and using the fingertips of both hands, start folding the outer parts of the dough to the middle. Turn the dough around and do this all around the piece of dough until you get it into a ball shape. Don’t use large amounts of flour to do this but keep enough flour on the dough to prevent it from sticking to your hands.

Then turn your loaf over and place it on the surface without any flour under it. We need it to slighly stick to the surface so it can be shaped. Let the dough ball rest for ten minutes. This will relax the gluten and allow you to give the ball (called a boule) it’s final shaping. The boule is sitting sort of flattish at this point.

To mound it up higher, take your hands and place them on both sides of the boule, making sure you have some flour on the surface so your hands don’t stick to the dough. Then turn the boule in a counterclockwise direction, shaking it gently from side to side at the same time to encourage the dough ball up off of it’s flat condition and into a more tightly wound dough ball. Do this just a little bit like three or four turns. It doesn’t matter if you get it exact, just twist the loaf and you will see the dough ball jump up higher. If your dough ball isn’t stuck somewhat to the table this won’t work.

To proof the loaves, I’ve tried two methods both of which worked.

Either:
1.) Grease an ovenproof ceramic bowl or dish- I used butter- and then sprinkle with semolina flour or cornmeal. Place your shaped loaf inside then sprinkle with flour or cornmeal and cover.
I find that I like to use plastic wrap the best.

The chewy crust and soft crumb make this Sourdough Dinner Bread recipe the one to compliment a winter meal, whether dipping in soups or sauces or slathering with butter.

Or:
2.) Heavily flour linen cloth- I use muslin- by rubbing the flour all into the cloth. Set the cloth flat over the top of a deep soup bowl (not a shallow cereal bowl). Set the shaped loaf onto of the floured cloth and let it just sink into the bowl. Lightly oil the top of the loaf and cover with plastic wrap.

Allow to rise to double in a warm, draft-free place to 2 1/2 hours.

Preheat the oven to 475 degrees. Place a dish of water on the bottom rack during the preheat. Once the oven is ready, if you prepared your loaves according to method #1, remove the plastic wrap and slash the dough.

If you prepared your loaves according to method #2, grease a baking sheet with butter, remove the plastic wrap, gently turn the loaves out onto the sheet, and slash.

Place the loaves in the oven, spray them with water and reset the heat to 450 degrees. Bake the loaves for 12 minutes. Carefully remove the dish of water. Bake for another 15-18, minutes opening the oven door for the last 5 minutes. The larger the loaf, the longer it needs to bake. Tap the loaf- if it sounds hollow it is done.

Cool completely before cutting or the bread seems to get a bit gummy.

The chewy crust and soft crumb make this Sourdough Dinner Bread recipe the one to compliment a winter meal, whether dipping in soups or sauces or slathering with butter.

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Comments

  1. Rachael says

    10 July, 2013 at

    There is something about sourdough bread that I just LOVE. Have you ever heard about Sourdough International’s sourdough starter? I have a friend who bakes and she uses their starters but I kind of wanted some more reviews..

    Reply
    • Quinn says

      15 July, 2013 at

      Hi Rachael,
      No, I haven’t heard of them so I’m sorry I can’t help you out there… hope you find someone who can. I could throw it out there on the FB page- see if there are any bread bakers there who can give you some help.

      Reply
  2. Renee Rodriguez Kohley says

    6 October, 2015 at

    This is so so beautiful!

    Reply
  3. Frederique says

    22 October, 2015 at

    Would using an enamel cast iron dutch oven to cook it work? The recipe I use only goes for 2cups of flour for every 1.5 cups starter, so a loaf only lasts a week and is pretty dense and sour. I have grown used to it, but still would prefer something more “airy”. This method is also more time consuming (the recipe I use has two – 1 hours rises only) but again, if that’s what it takes to get a good loaf…

    Reply

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