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Sourdough Bread

Bread 

• Cooking Time: 40
• Servings: 96
• Preparation Time: 60
• Day 1 (I do this late in the evening before I go to bed)
• 4 cups filtered water
• 1 cup sourdough starter
• 9 cups high gluten bread flour
• Day 2 (I do this first thing in the morning)
• 1 stick melted butter
• 1 TBS yeast
• 4 tsp salt (do not add salt Day 1 in impedes the sourdough)
• 4 cups more flour (sometimes I use white and sometimes I use wheat pastry flour)

Day 1

Mix it up to a loose dough consistency and cover and let set overnight or until it doubles in size.

Day 2

Mix up (I use a Bosch mixer, so I do my kneading right in that for about 10 min.) Knead for 10 min. then shape into loaves. This makes 4 loaves.

Bake at 375 degrees F for 40-45 minutes.

To get a crackly top, it calls to spray the walls and top of the oven with water through out the baking, I have had some success with this, but am a bit lazy and gave up after the first few tries. It just didn't seem worth it.

I really wanted sourdough bread like Panera, and although I found their recipe online, I could not make it come out quite right because I did not have the time nor the inclination to try to make their starter (which is very involved and a bit complicated) when I had a perfectly good starter already. I think I tweaked recipes for about a month before I finally got as close as I am going to get. It is not perfect but it is delicious. The overnight ri

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