Mother yeast: refreshments and bread making – Italian Cuisine


How to make sourdough at home to bake the best bread ever

If you too are fascinated by leavening with mother yeast, the time has come to do it at home. The time we have available in this period will help us to follow it in all the steps, refresh it and learn the right technique to always have it at home. As you will see in the tutorial below, created by our stylist Beatrice Prada followed and guided at a distance by the chef of The School of Italian Cuisine Davide Brovelli, it starts with the fermentation of the fruit, goes on to the preparation of the first sourdough, continues with refreshments, dough and folds up to a loaf ready to be baked. Let's start?

Ferment the fruit to make the mother yeast

There are several foods and starters that will allow us to make sourdough at home including yogurt, fermented fruit and other ingredients that contain a sufficient acidity. In this tutorial, we will see how to start from fresh fruit. Put in a bowl 500 g chopped apples, 250 g of organic raisins and a liter and a half of water. Add a spoonful of honey and let it brew 5-7 days sealed with cling film at room temperature.

The first sour dough

The next step to making sourdough at home is to filter the fermentation water and mix 200 g with 200 g of flour (preferably flour 0 or 1). Knead.

Pour the sour dough from the pitcher of the mixer to the bowl, cover with plastic wrap and leave to rest for 24 hours at 25 ° C.

After 24 hours, the dough looks like this:

The refreshment

Refresh the mother yeast with 100 g of sourdough, 100 g of flour and 100 g of water and let it rest again.
In the meantime, with the waste I can already make bread, but adding a small percentage of beer yeast because our sourdough is still not strong enough. After another 24 hours, our dough will have made bubbles!

bakery

Now, to start baking, pour 55 g of mother dough, 400 g of Manitoba flour, 100 g of semolina and 350 g of water. Knead.

Below, what the dough looks like after processing, during rest and after 3 hours of leavening, doubled in volume.

The folds

Now is the time to work the leavened dough with mother yeast, spreading it and proceeding with the folds. As you can see in detail, the dough makes bubbles!

Make bread with sourdough

Once the folds are made, knead the dough to give it the desired shape, sprinkle it with a little flour and let it rise for another two or three hours.

Baking homemade bread with sourdough

Bake the loaf and bake in oven preheated to 240 ° C for 20 minutes on a high floor and with a bowl of water in the oven. To check the cooking, "knock on the bottom"! If the sound is hollow, it is ready.

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