Basic Sourdough Boule
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup natural yeast
- 3 cups flour of choice
- 1 ¼ cup lukewarm water
- ½ tablespoon Redmond Real Salt
- 1 tablespoon honey
Instructions
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Mix the above ingredients in a bread mixer. The dough should pull away from the sides to form a nice elastic ball. When touching dough it shouldn't stick to your finger, but more sticky is better than adding too much flour.
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Knead dough for a few minutes.
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Let dough rest for 10 minutes in bread mixer.
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Knead an additional 5 minutes at medium speed.
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Place dough in a lightly sprayed bowl, cover with linen and place in a warm spot to rise.
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Let rise 3 hours, punch down and let rise a few more hours or until dough doubles in size (I’ve been known to run errands and leave all day and it still turns out).
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Remove dough and form into a boule shape, place on parchment paper, dust the top with a 1 teaspoon flour and score top in any design. Allow the dough to rise for about 20 minutes. It will also continue to rise while baking.
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Preheat your oven to 450 degrees with dutch oven inside. Allow dutch oven to heat for at least 10 minutes.
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Place dough into dutch oven.
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Bake for 13 minutes with lid on, remove lid.
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Bake an additional 13 minutes.
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Immediately remove bread from the dutch oven and place on a cooling rack.
Recipe Notes
Storage: If you want to keep the outside hard then place in paper bag, if you place your bread in a bread bag then the outside crust will soften.