Moro Sourdough

Name: Moro Sourdough
Ingredients: 250 g Sourdough Starter; 250 ml cold water; 150 g unbleached strong white bread flour (preferably organic); olive oil or sunflower oil for oiling bread tins; 2–3 teaspoons fine sea salt (depending on how sour the dough is); 450 g unbleached strong white bread flour (preferably organic); extra flour (bread or fine semolina) for dusting; 700 ml cold water

Preparation info

Difficulty
Complex

Appears in

Moro

By Samantha Clark and Samuel Clark

Published 2001

About

What takes the time when making sourdough is the rising process. Excluding the baking time, the preparation should take about 20 minutes at each stage. This recipe will make two loaves. If, for example, you want to make bread at the weekend, this is how it would work.

Ingredients

Stage 1: Friday Night, Before You Go to Bed

450 g unbleached strong white bread flour (preferably organic)
700 ml cold water
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Bread
Vegan

Method

Stage 1: Friday Night, Before You Go to Bed

In a mixer, with a dough hook, or by hand in a large bowl, mix the flour, water and starter together until more or less smooth. Transfer to a larger bowl if the mixture comes above two-thirds, for it will rise a little bit. Cover and leave overnight.

Add the flour and water to the original starter and mix