Potato Bread for World Bread Day 2013

Potato Bread

Potato Bread

makes: 1 loaf

World Bead Day worthy bread with a crispy crust and a mellow crumb.

Ingredients

    Preferment
  • 100 g wheat flour
  • 100 g water
  • 1 g fresh yeast

  • Sourdough
  • 75 g rye flour
  • 75 g water
  • 10 g active sourdough

  • Soaker
  • 40 g breadcrumbs
  • 75 g water
  • 2 g salt

  • Final Dough
  • 75 g whole wheat flour
  • 75 g spelt flour
  • 75 g rye flour
  • 225 g wheat flour
  • 200 g potato, boiled, skinned and mashed
  • 5 g fresh yeast
  • 140 g water
  • preferment, sourdough and soaker from above
  • 13 g salt

Instructions

  1. Preferment: Mix all ingredients, knead and let rise for 2 hours at room temperature then put in fridge overnight. Before using let preferment get back to room temperature.
  2. Sourdough: Mix all ingredients, knead and let rise overnight at room temperature.
  3. Soaker: Mix all ingredients then put in fridge overnight. Before using let soaker get back to room temperature.
  4. Final dough: Mix yeast and flours. Add all ingredients except salt and knead on speed 1 for 4 minutes. Add salt and mix another 8 minutes on speed 2. Cover and let rise for 60 minutes, after 30 Minutes make 1 stretch and fold.
  5. Shape the dough into a round and put it in the banneton, cover and let rise for about 75 minutes.
  6. Preheat and oven pan to 250 C. Remove loaf carefully from banneton, slash and bake for 15 minutes, open oven door to release steam. Reduce heat to 220 C and bake for another 15 minutes, again relase steam and reduce heat to 190 C and bake a final 15 minutes. The bread must sound hollow when the bottom is tapped. Let it cool on a wire rack.
Inspiration: Schwäbisches Kartoffelbrot & Guets Brot