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My Favorite Same Day Sourdough

Course: Baking

Ingredients
  

  • 1 ¾ c water
  • ¾ c starter
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 4 c flour

Method
 

  1. Add 1 ¾ c water, ¾ c starter, and 2 tsp salt to a medium sized bowl and mix until smooth.
  2. Pour 4 c flour into wet ingredients and mix until it forms a shaggy dough.
  3. Cover your dough for one hour.
  4. Wet your hands and do a round of stretch and folds. Cover dough and let rest 30 minutes.
  5. Repeat stretch and folds 3 more times.
  6. Let it rise for at least 3 hours on the counter.
  7. Put it in the fridge for one hour.
  8. Preheat oven and dutch oven to 460℉. (If your oven runs hot, put a baking sheet on the bottom rack.)
  9. Shape & score. Put on parchment paper.
  10. Pull dutch oven out and put loaf on parchment paper.
  11. Bake for 30 minutes, then reduce temperature to 425℉ and continue baking for another 10 minutes.
  12. Check bread to make sure you have a nice golden brown crust.