Easiest Way to Make Yummy Sour Dough Loaf

Sour Dough Loaf. I vividly remember the weeks leading up to that first loaf: weeks of voraciously reading Tartine Bread finally thinking that my newborn sourdough starter and I were ready to take on the sourdough world. Dog-eared pages, post-it notes, bookmarks, torn pages and highlighted passages peppered the book that first kindled that baking spark. A simple tin loaf is the best place to start learning the natural rhythm of fermenting bread When you start baking sourdough there is so much to learn so I recommend that you begin with a tin loaf.

Consider this beginner loaf a bridge between regular white sandwich bread and Tartine-style artisan loaves. It uses a few cups of your bubbly sourdough starter along with commercial yeast to add some extra insurance as you're getting used to working with sourdough. Making sourdough for the first time is a lengthy process, but the resulting bread, with its chewy texture and deliciously tangy flavour, is well worth the wait. You can have Sour Dough Loaf using 4 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Sour Dough Loaf

You need 1 of Pre-make Sour Dough Sponge.
Prepare 250 grams of Flour.
It's 10 grams of Salt.
You need 1 tbsp of Olive Oil.

Once you have created the starter, store to allow the flavours to mature, and use every time you bake a loaf. Once we have our sourdough starter ready, the next exciting job is to be bake a lovely loaf of bread. I have baked this loaf multiple times with all purpose flour, with part wheat flour and seeded loaf too. I take the entirety of the dough, shape it into a round ball, and place it in the lightly greased (cold) crock.

Sour Dough Loaf step by step

Mixed all ingredient in a large mixing bowl.
Start kneading for 5-10minutes.
Shape it into nice round shape and let it rise until double its original size.
When it rise up nicely for the first time, knock the air out and re-shape the dough and let it rise for the second time.
When the dough rise up for the second time, it is ready for the oven..
Take a sharp knife and give it a few score so that the bread can expand better in the oven.
Sprinkle some flour on top of the bread and bake in a pre-heated oven approximately 220°c for 40 minutes.
Remove from oven, let it cool before eating the bread.

You've made or acquired a sourdough starter. You're ready to bake homemade sourdough bread. The path to a prime loaf? Learning to make sourdough is in many ways like learning how to ride a bike. You'll fall pretty hard a few times.