Entire Rye Wheat Sourdough Hokkaido Milk Bread with Sunflower Seeds

Tony’s current stunning rye loaf jogged my memory that I nonetheless had some entire rye flour in my cupboard.  So for this bake I used entire rye for the tangzhong which is 20% of the full flour and hydrated at 200% of the rye.  This creates a cement like consistency to the tangzhong that bakers who work with rye can be very conversant in so it’s important to get your pot soaking in water or else it may be difficult to wash.  I hadn’t baked a 100% Wholegrain bread in fairly a while so I used to be overdue.

Threw in a handful of sunflower seeds on the finish of combine, not weighed.

For one 9x4x4” Pullman pan loaf.

Directions

Levain

Combine the levain components in a jar or pyrex container with house for at the very least 300% development.

Press down along with your knuckles or silicone spatula to create a uniform floor and to push out air.

At a temperature of 76-78ºF, it usually takes as much as 10-12 hours for this candy stiff levain to be at peak.  For my starter I usually see 3-3.5 occasions enhance in measurement at peak.  The levain will scent candy with solely a light tang.

Tangzhong

In a sauce pan set on medium warmth, stir the milk and entire whearye flour till blended. Then cook dinner for a number of minutes till properly thickened, stirring commonly with a spoon or heat-resistant spatula. Let cool within the pan or, for sooner outcomes, in a brand new bowl.  Theoretically it ought to attain 65ºC (149ºF) however I don’t discover I must measure the temperature because the tangzhong gelatinizes at this temperature.  You possibly can put together this the evening earlier than and refrigerate it, be sure that it’s lined to forestall it from drying out.

When you plan on utilizing a stand mixer to combine this dough, arrange a Bain Marie and use your stand mixer’s bowl to organize the tangzhong.

Dough

Within the bowl of a stand mixer, add the milk (contemplate holding again 10 g of milk and including later if that is the primary time you’re making this), egg, tangzhong, salt, sugar and levain.  Combine after which break up the levain into many smaller items.  Subsequent add the flours.  I like to make use of my spatula to combine till there aren’t many dry areas.  Permit the flour to hydrate (fermentolyse) for 20-Half-hour.  Combine on low pace after which medium pace till reasonable gluten improvement this will likely take 5-10 minutes.  Chances are you’ll wish to scrape the perimeters of the bowl throughout the first 5 minutes of blending.  Subsequent add room temperature butter one pat at a time.  The dough might come aside, be affected person, proceed to combine till it comes collectively earlier than including in additional butter.  You’ll want to examine gluten improvement by windowpane throughout this time and cease mixing if you get windowpane.  It’s best to have the ability to pull windowpane, not fairly nearly as good as a white flour as a result of the bran will interrupt the windowpane considerably.

To develop by hand, soften the butter and add it with the moist components.

On the counter, form the dough into a good ball, cowl within the bowl and ferment for 4-6 hours at 82ºF ending bulk fermentation as soon as the dough has risen 30-40%.

You possibly can subsequent place the dough into the fridge to relax the dough for about 1.5 hours, this makes rolling the dough simpler to form.  Keep in mind, in the event you achieve this the ultimate proof will take longer.  Alternatively, you are able to do a chilly retard within the fridge in a single day, nevertheless, you might discover that this will increase the tang in your bread.

Put together your pans by greasing them with butter or line with parchment paper.

Calmly oil the highest of the dough. Scrape the dough out onto a clear counter prime and divide it into 4. I prefer to weigh them to have equal sized lobes. Form every tightly right into a boule, enable to relaxation 5 minutes. Utilizing an oiled rolling pin roll every ball out after which letterfold. Flip 90* and utilizing a rolling pin roll every out to at the very least 8”. Letterfold once more from the perimeters so you’ve an extended slender dough. Then utilizing a rolling pin, roll flatter however conserving the dough comparatively slender.  The rationale to do that further letterfold is that the shorter fatter rolls when positioned within the pan won’t contact the perimeters of the pan.  This enables the swirled ends to rise throughout remaining proof, that is solely carried out for look sake and isn’t obligatory.  Subsequent roll every into a good roll with some stress. Prepare the rolls of dough inside your lined pan alternating the course of the swirls. This could enable a larger rise throughout proof and within the oven.

Cowl and let proof for  4-6 hours at a heat temperature.  I proof at 82°F.  You have to longer than 4-6 hours in the event you chilled your dough for shaping. I proof till the highest of the dough involves inside 1 cm of the highest fringe of the pan.  At this level the dough ought to have risen 130-140% in complete from the beginning of bulk fermentation.

Preheat the oven to 350F and brush the dough with the egg-milk wash.  Simply previous to baking brush with the egg-milk wash once more.

Bake the loaves for 50 minutes or till the interior temperature is at the very least 190ºF, rotating as wanted to get even browning. Defend your loaf if it will get brown early within the baking course of. After 50 minutes take away the bread from the pan and bake an extra 10 minutes by inserting the loaf immediately within the oven on the rack with the oven turned right down to 325ºF.

I haven’t sliced this loaf but, however will later at this time and I’ll put up the crumb then.

Benny

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