Whole Wheat Pain de Campagne
- 200 grams Bread (strong) flour - Lys d'Or brand recommended
- 50 grams Whole wheat flour (finely milled type)
- 10 grams Sugar
- 3 grams Salt
- 3 grams Dry yeast
- 162 grams Lukewarm water (use cold water in the summer)
- 1 Joshinko or bread flour
- 1 Stainless steel bowl
- 1 Banneton (round bread rising bowl)
- Combine the bread flour (Lys d'Or flour) and whole wheat flour, and sift twice.
- Put the ingredients in a bread machine, and start the "dough only" program.
- After 6 to 7 minutes stop the machine, take the dough out into a bowl, and round off lightly.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and use your oven's "bread-rising" setting to let it proof at 35C for 30 to 40 minutes until doubled in volume (1st rising).
- After the 1st rising is done, round off the dough again, cover with plastic wrap, and leave to rest for 20 to 30 minutes.
- Dust a banneton (round bread rising bowl) with 1/2 tablespoon of joshinko or bread flour using a tea strainer.
- Deflate the rested dough, and round it off so it has a smooth, taut surface.
- Place it in the floured banneton with the seam side facing up, and cover with plastic wrap again.
- Leave it to rise again at 35C for 25 to 30 minutes until it has increased to 1.5 times its original size (2nd rising).
- Preheat the oven, including the oven tray and stainless steel bowl, to 250C.
- Cover the banneton with a sheet of kitchen parchment paper and invert the dough onto the paper.
- Slash the top of the loaf 5 mm deep with a moistened knife.
- Take the stainless steel bowl out, place the dough, paper and all, onto the oven tray, and invert the bowl over the loaf.
- Lower the oven temperature to 210 C and bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
- Take the bowl off 10 minutes in.
- If it looks like the top of the loaf is browning too fast, cover it with a piece of aluminium foil.
- When the bread has finished baking, leave it to cool a bit on a cooling rack, then store in a plastic bag to prevent it from drying out.
- I used a 24 cm diameter, 8 cm high stainless steel bowl.
- This size worked fine even when the dough puffed up.
- It looks like this when sliced.
- It has a nice color and looks delicious.
bread, whole wheat flour, sugar, salt, yeast, water, bread flour, steel bowl
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/145353-whole-wheat-pain-de-campagne (may not work)