White sandwich bread: the recipe

At a glance

• Method: Preferment, with autolyse (30 min)
• Preferment: Biga — 29% of the flour
• Mixing: Stand mixer

• Number of pieces: 1
• Weight per piece: 1000 g
• Preferment weight: 265 g
• Dough weight: 730 g
• Total dough weight: 1000 g

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Ingredients

Quantities for 1 piece of 1000 g, kitchen at 20 °C

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Method

1. Biga: make it and let it ferment (at room temperature) (3 h 30 min)

   • Weigh the ingredients
   • Make a mix with 1 ice cube and 61 g of water at room temperature (to get it to 11 °C)
   • Dissolve the yeast in the water
   • Mix roughly
   • Transfer to a container, covered but not airtight
2. Put the dough in the fridge, covered (11 hours)
3. Weigh the ingredients and knead (1 hour)

   • Use water at 43 °C

   • After the autolyse, mix in the remaining ingredients.
   • The bulk rise wants 24-26 °C: If your kitchen is colder, an oven off with the light on helps.
4. End of mixing, start of bulk rise (at room temperature) (1 h 15 min)
5. Divide/shape, start proofing (at room temperature) (1 h 45 min)

   • Shape it tight with an envelope fold, then roll it up into a log.
   • Place it in the tin with the seam down.

   Proof covered at 26-28 °C (again, the oven-light trick works) for 1:30-2:00, until the dough reaches a centimetre from the rim of the tin.
6. Ready to cook

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Baking

1. • conventional oven, without steam
   • Overall temperature: 190 °C
   • Time: 37 minutes
   • Conventional, vent open
2. • conventional oven, without steam
   • Overall temperature: 190 °C
   • Time: 10 minutes
   • Conventional, vent closed for the last few minutes

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