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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Wild Rice - Molasses Bread

A month between posts! Let's account that to laziness, busy work life, vacation and move on, shall we?

This bread is from Beth Hensperger's book 'The Bread Bible'. The recipe given is for 2 round loaves. I made two loaves, one of which was the October bread for my father-in-law. I modified the recipe a bit to use more whole wheat flour than bread flour. Also, the book does not provide weights, so below are the amounts I used:

Ingredients
For two rounded loaves

250 g cooked wild rice (about 1½ C )
520 g whole wheat flour
15 g instant yeast (1½ Tbsp)
14 g salt (2 tsp)

47 g light olive oil ( ¼ C)
67 g molasses ( ¼ C)
300 g warm milk (about 1¼ C)
1 C water

260 g bread flour ( + about 13 grams during kneading)

Ingredients

Preparation
Mix the first four ingredients in a bowl. Mix the next four ingredients in another bowl and then add the liquid mixture to the flour mixture. Mix with a spatula.

Bread flour is added last

10:52 am: Very sticky mixture after adding all the ingredients

11:00 am: Ready for first rise

11:36 am: A quick first rise

12:25 pm: A good second rise

The surface of the dough had dried out a little because it had been covered with a cloth instead of a proper lid. So during the final rise (proofing) I covered the shaped loaves with a damp paper towel each before covering them with overturned utensils.

12:28 pm: Split for two loaves

12:32 pm: Ready for proofing

12:56: Proofed well.

1:04 pm: Slashed boule in preheated cast iron pan

1:45 pm: Out of the oven

Cooling.

Sliced well

Wild rice bits are clearly visible in the fairly even crumb

The bread
The bread was pretty good, but I don't remember any details I might have liked to write here.

Notes
Date: October 6, 2011
Recipe: Adapted from Wild Rice - Molasses Bread from Beth Hensperger's 'The Bread Bible' book.

Flours: Whole wheat, bread flour
Bread specific ingredients: Cooked wild rice
Sweetener used: Molasses
Liquid: Water, milk

Comments: A good tasting bread.

-RPH

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