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Making 3 Loafs of Bread - First Time Sifting Wheat

submitted by Love240 to Baking 1 yearJun 12, 2024 22:30:08 ago (+28/-0)     (files.catbox.moe)

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I started with 2 Cups of Red Fife and 1 Cup of White Sonora wheat.
This produced about 4 3/4 Cups of freshly milled flour.
Sifting produced roughly 4 Cups.

1st:
5 3/4 Cups of Water in the mixer with
3 1/4 Tablespoons of Yeast and
~3 Cups of freshly milled flour
and mix until flour is entirely wetted, should be very liquidy.
Now is the autolyze - Verification that the yeast is working.
I basically didn't have to wait because it started making bubbles almost immediately.

2nd:
While on the lowest mixing setting add
The rest of the freshly milled flour, 1/4 Cup at a time, allowing time for it to incorporate and
3/4 Cup of Honey
3/4 Cup Coconut Oil
4 3/4 teaspoons Salt
1 1/2 Tablespoons of Stabilized Rice Bran (Not Necessary)(I forgot to add this until I added maybe 3 more cups of flour)
For the remainder of the flour, I used Vitrea Artisan Bread flour from Hayden Mills, 1/4 Cup at a time, allowing time for it to incorporate, until the dough begins to separate from the bowl.
Turn the oven on to pre-heat @350F.
Oil the bread pans (using 9x5 bread pans)

It is at this point, I should have added about 9 cups of Vitrea flour, Instead I was probably at about 7 1/2.
I decided to knead for 7 minutes in the machine on the lowest setting before realizing my mistake because of the tackiness of the dough still at that point, I then added an extra cup of flour, bringing the total to 12 1/2 Cups of flour. Next I let the machine knead for another 5 minutes, with a total knead time of about 12 minutes.
The dough was smooth enough for my satisfaction at this point. I also didn't want to over knead it.

3rd:
I floured down the silicone mat and dumped the dough on it, dividing it into 3 even portions, using a scale to verify.
Roll the portions into rectangles approximately 18x12, fold in thirds like a letter. And tightly roll the remainder, tucking the seams in the under-side of the loaf and placing the loaf in the Oiled bread pans.
Mist them with water to keep them from sticking to a tea towel covering over them while they rise, 10-30 minutes (depends on your yeast), until they roughly double in size.
I only had to wait 15 minutes.
Into the oven and bake for 30 minutes.


15 comments block


[ - ] xmasskull 6 points 1 yearJun 12, 2024 23:49:02 ago (+6/-0)

Outstanding!

Very satisfying as well.

Your "grilled cheez"are gonna' taste X-Tra good!

[ - ] UncleDoug 3 points 1 yearJun 13, 2024 08:10:17 ago (+3/-0)

Good job OP

[ - ] iSnark 4 points 1 yearJun 12, 2024 22:38:43 ago (+4/-0)*

That looks really good! Well Done! Where did you get the grains that you ground into flour?
I inherited an older DAK Dome style bread machine that I used fairly often before the COVID fraud. I'm itching to pull it out and start making some bread!

[ - ] Love240 [op] 4 points 1 yearJun 12, 2024 22:52:20 ago (+4/-0)*

Thank you! Both grains and flour I purchased from Hayden Mills locally.
I haven't yet used the Hard White that I just received from Azure Standard, we'll see how that does soon.

[ - ] iSnark 6 points 1 yearJun 12, 2024 23:00:51 ago (+6/-0)

I would be interested in the outcome. I think this site needs more of this constructive energy. Kudos to you for getting the ball rolling!

[ - ] VitaminSieg 0 points 1 yearJun 13, 2024 12:34:35 ago (+0/-0)

I think this site needs more of this constructive energy

Then stop posting shitty music, Neri.

[ - ] deleted 3 points 1 yearJun 13, 2024 03:49:02 ago (+3/-0)

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[ - ] Gowithit 3 points 1 yearJun 13, 2024 09:17:44 ago (+3/-0)

Milling his own flour already qualifies it as artisian.

[ - ] Kozel 2 points 1 yearJun 13, 2024 12:31:33 ago (+2/-0)

whatever, bigot.

[ - ] Peleg 2 points 1 yearJun 13, 2024 10:35:28 ago (+2/-0)

How did you mill it? Do you have a mill or did you take it somewhere?

[ - ] Love240 [op] 1 point 1 yearJun 13, 2024 14:47:37 ago (+1/-0)

I have a WonderMill, which is an impact style mill. It makes a lot of fine flour very quickly, but it doesn't have much variability for grain coarseness.

[ - ] FacelessOne 2 points 1 yearJun 13, 2024 08:46:09 ago (+2/-0)

That Bread looks Supremecist!

[ - ] FacelessOne 1 point 1 yearJun 13, 2024 09:31:53 ago (+1/-0)

@TheBreadSultan

[ - ] RobertJHarsh 1 point 1 yearJun 13, 2024 08:45:53 ago (+1/-0)

Reminds me of a redboard user called "Mr. The Loaf". Not sure if that guy is still around.

I am going to try this. I haven't baked bread in a forever.

[ - ] Greasy 0 points 1 yearJun 13, 2024 13:14:26 ago (+0/-0)

Loaves*

[ - ] Smedleys_Butler 0 points 1 yearJun 13, 2024 12:44:27 ago (+0/-0)

Do you harvest your own wheat? Build a threshing floor/ solar observatory