Pain de Campagne-style Bread with Bread and Cake Flours - Version 2
- 100 grams Bread (strong) flour
- 100 grams Cake flour
- 10 grams Sugar
- 3 grams Salt
- 3 grams Dry yeast
- 130 grams Lukewarm water (use cold water in the summer)
- 1 Joshinko or bread flour
- 1 Stainless steel bowl
- Combine the bread and cake flours, and sift together twice.
- Put the ingredients in a bread machine, and start the "dough kneading" program.
- 6 to 7 minutes in, stop the machine, take the dough out into a bowl, and lightly round off into a ball.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap, and let the dough rise using your oven's "dough rising" setting at 35C for 30 to 40 minutes.
- The photo shows the dough after the 1st rising is complete.
- Round off the dough, cover with plastic wrap, and leave to rest for 20 to 30 minutes.
- The photo shows the dough after it's rested.
- Deflate the dough, round it off into a smooth ball again, and place on a kitchen parchment paper lined baking tray.
- Put in a container of hot water along with the dough to encourage it to rise.
- Leave the dough to rise at 35C for 25 to 30 minutes, until it has increased to 1.5 times its original volume (this is the 2nd rising).
- Start preheating the oven, with the baking tray and the stainless steel bowl, to 250C.
- Dust the top of the loaf with joshinko or bread flour using a tea strainer.
- Slash the loaf about 5 mm deep using a moistened knife.
- Take the stainless steel bowl out of the oven, put the dough on the baking tray with the paper, and invert the bowl over the loaf.
- Lower the oven temperature to 210C and bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
- Remove the bowl about 10 minutes into the baking time.
- If it looks like the loaf is browning too fast, cover with a piece of aluminium foil.
- Cool the baked loaf on a cooking rack, then store in a plastic bag to prevent it from drying out.
- This is how it looks slices.
- The crust is crispy, the crumb is soft and delicious.
- I used a 24 cm diameter, 8 cm high stainless steel bowl.
- This size worked fine even when the loaf rose up.
- In Step 9, if you take the bowl off 7 minutes after you start baking the bread, the scored sections will open up like this.
- If this is the first time you're making a pain de campagne with a scored top, you'll succeed by using the stainless steel bowl trick!
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Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/170557-pain-de-campagne-style-bread-with-bread-and-cake-flours-version-2 (may not work)