Mix all ingredients except salt, rest 40 minutes, mix in salt with a little water, do turn and fold method every 30 minutes, 5 times. Make into a ball, proof 20 minutes, shape, put into basket then refrigerate overnight.

Take it out of refrigerator about an hour before baking. This never fails makes the perfect loaf.

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I have recipes that never fail. I'm trying to experiment and to understand where the boundaries are.

I get it. I do the same.

Have you played with temperature. I use to autolyse my multigrain breads up to 12 hrs in the fridge. Doesn’t moisture also have an effect? If I remember correctly my autolyse for the whole grain breads would be the consistency of almost a brick.

I've done bread in the fridge a lot, but not whole grain yet. And I'm curious how the temperature affects the speed of the gluten breakdown versus the speed of the fermentation... I assume they both slow down the same, but that might not be right.

My next experiments will be with spelt though, because I seem to have a bit of a wheat sensitivity.