Shantell Villasenor Bread

Name: Shantell Villasenor Bread
Total time: 600 s
Yield: 10 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 425 grams strong white flour; 150 grams sourdough starter; 10 grams salt; 300 ml water; 5 grams fast action dried yeast

Martin @cook_3599692

Croydon, United Kingdom

This bread used to have a more descriptive name, however that caused offence due to the fact that the same word can be used in a completely different context, as a derogatory slur. Therefore I gave it a prettier, less offensive name, after the champion of community spirit that pointed out the emotional distress and anxiety that the previous, thoughtless name could wreak upon the world.

Martin @cook_3599692

Croydon, United Kingdom

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Ingredients

10 mins

10 servings

425 gramsstrong white flour
150 gramssourdough starter
10 gramssalt
300 mlwater
5 gramsfast action dried yeast

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Steps

10 mins

1

Add the dry ingredients to a large bowl, keeping the yeast and salt separate (on either side of bowl).
2

Add the water and mix well to form a rough dough
3

Leave to autolyse for 30 mins
4

Knead well, for 10 or so minutes until smooth and stretchy
5

Cover and place in the fridge for 8 hours (anything from 6-12 is fine)
6

Pull the risen dough out onto a lightly floured surface (reccomend a 2:1 ratio of bread flour to rice flour for dusting)
7

Divide the dough into two roughly equal masses
8

Shape the dough to the desired shape.
9

Place in well floured bannetons, cover and leave for 1.5 hours at room temperature
10

Preheat oven to 240C with an old tin with some holes in at the bottom of the oven
11

Turn out the dough onto your baking surface, dusted well with semolina
12

Score with a razor bladet
13

Throw half a cup of water into the tray in the oven
14

Quickly place the dough into the oven and shut the door
15

Reduce heat to 220C and bake for 20 mins
16

Reduce heat to 200C and bake for a further 10 mins
17

Remove baking surface, leaving bread on bars of the oven
18

Turn off oven and bake in residual heat for 10 more minutes
19

Turn out onto a wire rack to cool