sourdoughdummy

 An attempt at making a basic sour dough loaf with minimal fuss over a short time-frame. Maybe 18 hours. - Requirements A dutch oven - Basic recipe supplied by my bread mentor Geoffrey. 600g flour 2 generous teaspoons salt (Maybe a teaspoon or two of sugar) as well. 378m water (roughly) Between 90g / 145g starter. - Basic time-frame/run-list, for a work from home loaf, or a saturday lunchtime loaf. 1. Waking up the starter - 5 pm  - (5pm the day before loaf is baked) Take your starter from the fridge feed it 1/2 a cup of flour and 1/2 a cup of water. Stir it up. Sit the starter, in it's jar, in a bowl of hot water. Watch it and see the starter grow over the next couple of hours. Put a rubber band around the jar to mark the current level. When the level of the starter has risen a lot, maybe 3 inches, it is ready to use.  Pour more hot water in the bowl around it if you want it to grow faster. 2. Mixing the starter with the flour/salt/sugar/water mixture - 8 pm  - (8 p...