Rye bread with caraway: the recipe

At a glance

• Method: Preferment, without autolyse
• Preferment: Sourdough starter — 39% of the flour
• Mixing: Stand mixer

• Number of pieces: 2
• Weight per piece: 680 g
• Preferment weight: 583 g
• Dough weight: 768 g
• Total dough weight: 1360 g

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Ingredients

Quantities for 2 pieces of 680 g, kitchen at 21 °C

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Method

1. Lievito madre: make it and let it ferment (at room temperature) (14 h 30 min)

   • Weigh the ingredients
   • Use water at 30 °C
   • Mix the flour, water and starter until you get a smooth batter
   • Transfer to a container, covered but not airtight
2. Weigh the ingredients and knead (25 min)

   • Use water at 22 °C
3. End of mixing, start of bulk rise (at room temperature) (1 hour)
4. Reinforcement fold 1 of 2
5. Reinforcement fold 2 of 2
6. Divide/shape: weigh and form the pieces (5 min)

   Divide the dough into 1.5-pound (.68-kg) pieces; shape round or oval.
7. Start of proofing (at room temperature) (55 min)

   About 50 to 60 minutes at 25° to 26 °C.
8. Ready to cook

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Baking

1. • conventional oven, with steam
   • Overall temperature: 240 °C
   • Time: 15 minutes
   • Normal steam
2. • conventional oven, without steam
   • Overall temperature: 225 °C
   • Time: 23 minutes
   • Lower the temperature and finish the bake.

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