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Default First batch of sourdough of the season is in the bread machine

On Sep 30, 12:42*pm, zxcvbob > wrote:
> Norvin Gordon wrote:
> > Would you mind sharing your SD bread recipe for the bread machine. I
> > have a recipe for a mixer but need one for the machine. TKS

>
> I use 1 pound of bread flour (cheap stuff from Sam's Club) and 1 tsp
> of salt dissolved in 1 cup of water. *Add about a generous 1/2 cup of
> starter. *Run the bread machine on the "Dough" cycle. *When it beeps,
> I transfer the ball of dough to a generously-greased Corningware
> covered dish, and I flip it over so the dough gets greased on the top
> as well as the bottom. *Then let it rise until it almost fills the
> dish. *The rise time is quite variable. *Bake covered for about 40
> minutes.
>
> I'm experimenting now with slitting the top of the loaf. *I haven't
> figured out how to rise and bake the SD in a bread machine, I just use
> it for mixing and kneading.
>
> I usually use rye flour for the last feeding of my starter before I
> bake, and AP flour or bread flour for the other feedings. *(I like
> just a little rye in my SD bread.) And in case you don't know, the
> starter is just flour and water; no yeast except the
> naturally-occurring wild yeast.
>
> HTH,
> Bob


Have you tried the no-knead method using starter? I have, and it works
quite well!