Lastly discovered some Allinson’s sturdy white and gave Lance’s Middlings method a go.
The flours at my disposal have been a bit extra restricted that these utilized by Lance, however determined to go together with 120g of a very nice wholemeal wheat flour from a 17C nonetheless functioning windmill within the East Midlands (see picture), 30g of economic wholemeal rye, 150g AP, plus the prefermented flour, which consisted of 80g AP and 20g of the Allinson’s sturdy white which incorporates the hemicellulase. Complete flour was 400g. Complete hydration round 70%.
Managed to make use of totally different sieves to separate out the bran (6g) and the middlings (5g). The bran was soaked in a single day with 4g salt and 20g water. The middlings have been added to the preferment, which was constructed from 40g of liquid starter with a complete of 100g of prefermented flour (80g AP & 20 Allinson’s sturdy white) and 80g water.
It was very spectacular how a lot quicker and stronger this preferment was from my traditional preferment with out the middlings and the sturdy white with hemicellulase. It nearly quadrupled in a couple of third of the time my traditional preferment took to double.
I often depart my preferment in a single day to combine into the BF within the morning, however this one with the middlings and hemicellulase was so quick, I needed to put it into the fridge earlier than going to mattress to make use of within the morning for the BF.
The preferment was rather less vigorous within the morning after the refrigeration, so the BF proceeded with speeds nearer to my bakes with my traditional preferment, however the dough was very simple and good to deal with and as soon as as much as temperature gathered some momentum.
Shaping was very simple and oven spring, crust, and crumb got here out very nice as will be seen within the picture.
For a 37.5% wholemeal bread, that is very mild, moist, and ethereal loaf with a pleasant crisp and never too thick/heavy crust and a stunning very barely tangy taste.
I’ll undoubtedly be aiming to make use of this method once more and experiment additional with it. For one, now that I understand how quick the preferment strikes, I shall be doing it within the morning with the intention to keep away from having to refrigerate it. My guess is that having the ability to go from preferment to BF straight, it will in all probability be potential to make an amazing SD loaf with excessive wholemeal content material in someday utilizing this method.
Can even prefer to see how excessive the wholmeal content material will be pushed and nonetheless have a lightweight and open crumb.
