I recently played around on my bread formula with varying hydration amounts and with full wheat. I had very good results with only wheat flour breads and some mixed breads with a full-wheat amount of 25%. For those I figured that the previous hydration of about 60% was too high. The dough was difficult to handle, and the taste of the bread itself was a bit rubbery. Several bakes later I concluded that for those breads the hydration of 40% works much better.
Today’s bake is a mixed rye-wheat-full-wheat bread at 40% hydration. The dough is easy to handle (not too liquid, so you can shape it) and the result tastes heavenly 😋
This will be my default from now onwards for my wheat-based bread with less than 25% rye/full wheat.
Today’s bake had the following percentages
| Percentage | Amount | Ingredient |
|---|---|---|
| 75% | 300g | Wheat flour |
| 12.5% | 50g | Rye flour |
| 12.5% | 50g | Full-wheat flour |
| 40% | 165g | Water |
| 0.5% | 2g | Dry-yeast |
| 2.5% | 10g | Salt |
| 75% | 300g | Poolish (150g+150g) |
I made this bread with a 3-day old Poolish (150g wheat flour + 150g water) to increase the taste.
I used some bread spices, but they are completely optional. For today’s bake I used a teaspoon of South-Tyrolean “Brotklee” and a teaspoon fennel seeds.
Proofing took 2h with one stretch-and-fold after 1h.
The bread is baked in a Dutch oven for 15 minutes at 250°C, then you remove the lid and bake it for another 40 minutes at 230°C. The Dutch oven is optional, but it does make a difference.
Yummy! 😋