I made this loaf this morning, using an overnight method that I saw online. I am pleasantly surprised. I totally thought it was going to be a hard ball of baked dough because I didn’t think the dough recipe had enough water in it. It seemed already too late to add more water once the dough was formed. My awesome friend gave me some starter and I fed it for a couple of days until I thought it was sour enough 🙂
I bake challah weekly. Sourdough just seemed too intimidating. I’m glad I took a shot at it!
by _tooty_
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Not sure how to edit the post for the ingredients. This is the recipe I used. It’s not in grams unfortunately.
1/4c starter
1 2/3c water
4 cups flour
2 tsp Salt
Mix ingredients together. Let your dough sit for 30 minutes. Do one stretch and fold. Cover your dough with a damp cloth and set aside overnight.
Next day:
Take your dough out and stretch and fold . Wait 10 minutes and shape it into a ball.
Preheat oven and cast iron at 475F
Flour and score dough. Place in hot Dutch oven.
Bake at 450F for 30 minutes with lid on
Then take lid off bake for 20 minutes
Hi
I can see you’re new to the sub – Welcome! 👋☺️
Cups/grammes/bakers percentages. It’s all good with us 😁
Thanks
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Your first loaf!?? Wow that’s amazing, well done!
Congrats on your first loaf!🫶🏼
Looks amazing! My first loaf looked like a dense gummy brick. Lol.
Hi. Welcome to the community. That’s a very good first loaf. We done. I feel the dough was a little under hydrated. But, the ‘fluff’ makes me think tis might be all purpose flour. The tight crumb tends to confirm this though more gluten development might resolve that.
Happy baking
Better than my first loaf!
Unrelated but sourdough challah is kinda my aspiration with sourdough.
Beautiful!