Baking a rustic farmer's bread with sourdough yourself is not difficult.
With this recipe, you too will become a bread expert and from now on you can save yourself a trip to the bakery.
Germany is the self-proclaimed country of bread.
And
rightly so: there are so many different types of
bread
that you
could
bake
a different
bread
every day
and you would
n't run out of
recipes
for a very long time
.
In addition to the great effect that it smells great in the kitchen when you bake bread yourself *, another advantage is that you know exactly what is in the bread and what is not: preservatives, for example.
Farmer's
bread
is one of the classics: It is a
mixed bread that is baked with rye and wheat flour
; sourdough, salt and
yeast are also
essential ingredients.
A farmer's bread typically has a floured,
cracked crust
and is particularly crispy and tasty.
Also read:
Hermann cake: This is how you make the legendary cake.
Don't be afraid of sourdough: make it yourself or buy it
Don't let the keyword sourdough put you off.
If the process of preparing
, feeding,
losing
weight
and the like seems too time-consuming for you: When you
bake bread yourself for
the first time
, you can simply
ask
a baker - who, by the way, calls it "Anstellgut" or "Anstellsauer" - or get in the trade.
Otherwise, you can actually spend days making sourdough.
The great thing about sourdough is that in theory you can keep “feeding” it and using it.
You must remove only the mature dough two tablespoons, it is the
Anstellgut
for the next batter.
It is best to mix the topping with 1 tablespoon of rye flour and 1 tablespoon of water and store it in a jar in the refrigerator.
So you are always ready to bake great breads.
For example, a delicious
farmer's
bread
for which you
need
a few ingredients but a little
time and patience
.
It is best to take a weekend to bake this bread in peace.
Video: This is how sourdough works
To
bake
bread, you must first
"wake up"
the
Anstellsauer
before you can bake the bread.
Take it out of the refrigerator, mix it with 1 tablespoon flour and 2 tablespoons warm water and let it
stand
in a
warm place
for six to eight hours
.
You should always add a little water and flour.
The dough will foam visibly and smell mildly sour, which is why it is also called
sourdough
.
You need these ingredients for home-baked farmer's bread
800 g rye flour (type 1150)
60 g sourdough mixture
15 g yeast (1/3 cube of yeast or 2 packets of dry yeast)
550 g wheat flour (type 550)
3 teaspoons of salt
Also interesting:
You can bake really good bread that easily, even without yeast.
Recipe: How to bake farmer's bread yourself
Mix 350 ml of
warm water
with 350 g of
rye flour
and the
sourdough
mixture
.
This is your pre-dough, which has to rest in a warm place for another 10 hours.
The next day, take
about a large tablespoon from
the
pre-dough
, mix it with 1 tablespoon of rye flour and 2 tablespoons of water and put it in a screw-top jar - this is what you need for baking next time.
Now dissolve the
yeast
in 550 ml of warm water, add the rest of the rye flour, the
wheat flour
and the
salt
and knead everything with the pre-dough.
Let the dough rest for half an hour.
Dust a board and your hands with rye flour and then shape the dough into a round loaf.
Line a
bowl with a cloth
, dust it also with flour and put the dough in it.
Cover the bowl with a tea towel and let the dough rise in a warm place for another 1-2 hours.
Preheat
the oven to
260 ° C top / bottom heat
and place a baking sheet directly on the bottom of
the oven
.
Turn the bread dough out onto baking paper and pull it out onto a second baking sheet that you place on the lowest rail of the oven.
Reduce the heat to 230 ° C and pour about 200 ml of water on the lower sheet.
Immediately close the oven,
water vapor will be created
, which
will create
the crust.
Bake the bread for
15 minutes
, open the oven door briefly to let the moisture out, and
finish
baking the bread
for another hour
.
Take the bread out of the oven and let it cool down.
Can you already
smell
the
wonderfully fragrant farmer's
bread?
In order for the bread to have the typical
cracks,
you don't have to
cut
it
extra
, they appear by themselves when it rises in the oven.
If you have become a skilled bread baker, you can
also
leave out
the
yeast in this recipe
, it only ensures that the bread rises nicely for beginners.
But this also works with a good sourdough approach.
(mad) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
Read more:
Simply bake bread in a pot: Smart tip for beginners.