Sourdough Inclusions

Sourdough Inclusions

This isn’t strictly a recipe, it’s more of a general method that our Head Baker Chris uses to adapt his classic white sourdough recipe to include other flavours, such as seeds, herbs, cheese, porridge, olives, sun dried tomatoes etc.

To accompany the original Instagram video (which you can find over @shiptonmill), we’ve written his instructions up here too. It’s a rough guide to incorporating inclusions to your dough, to allow you to create all sorts of sourdoughs using the flavours you feel like.

For this recipe, Chris recommends using any of the following white flours: our organic No. 4, our No. 1, our organic ciabatta flour, or our Canadian flour. Inclusions can make the dough a little more temperamental to handle, and these flours are all well suited to supporting them.

You can use any of our wholemeal bread flours for the additional 50g.

Makes one sourdough loaf

INGREDIENTS

  • 450g Strong white flour
  • 50g Strong wholemeal flour
  • 350g Water (around 40°C)
  • 100g Sourdough starter
  • 10g Salt
  • Plus your choice of additional ingredients, as per the quantities in the method below depending on what you are working with. 

METHOD

  • Place the flours, water and sourdough starter in a mixing bowl.
  • Combine until the ingredients are thoroughly incorporated, cover, and leave for 30 minutes to autolyse.
  • Next, add the salt and a tablespoon of water. Work this well into the dough, cover, and leave for 3-4 hours in total.
  • Fold the dough once every hour. Once ready, the dough should feel pillowy and have increased in volume by a third.
  • Tip the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and shape into a round (or your shape of preference).
  • Place into a floured prooving basket and leave it for one hour at room temperature. Then place the dough in the fridge overnight.
  • Preheat your oven to 250°C, and put your casserole pot / Dutch oven in to heat up in advance.
  • Flip the loaf out of the basket on to some baking parchment and slash.
  • Lift the loaf on the parchment paper into your hot casserole pot and place in the oven with the lid on for 30 minutes.
  • Carefully remove the lid and continue to bake for 15-20 minutes until you get the desired colour on the crust.
  • Remove the loaf and leave on a wire rack to cool for at least an hour.

 

 

 

Porridges 25% to dough weight– oat, quinoa, maize, teff, rice etc. To prepare, cook normally as you would to eat it then leave it to cool before adding.

* Roasted veg 20-25% to dough weight- potato, pumpkin, beetroot etc. Roast in the oven until soft and then leave to cool, you can mush it up or blitz it.

* Seeds 20-25% to dough weight – soak the seeds in the same weight of water the day before, or sprout them.

* Additional options, as a general guide, 20-25% to dough weight – olives, sun dried tomatoes, cheese, raisins etc.

* Herbs – dried 2-3% to dough weight, fresh 3-6% to dough weight.

As an example, if you were using olives, you could add 125g of pitted olives at 25% dough weight.