The Doctor's Sourdough Bread
Recipe
- Title:
- The Doctor's Sourdough Bread
- Categories:
- Breads
- Yield:
- 18 servings
Ingredients
- 1 c Sourdough Starter
- 7 c Unbleached Flour
- 2 c Warm Water
- 1/4 c Wheat Germ
- 2 c Warm Milk
- 2 tb Sugar
- 1 tb Butter
- 2 ts Salt
- 1 pk Active Dry Yeast
- 2 ts Baking Soda
- 1/4 c Honey
Directions
- Mix the starter and 2 1/2 Cups of the flour and all the water the night before you want to bake.
- Let stand in warm place overnight.
- Next morning mix in the butter with warm milk and stir in yeast until until dissolved.
- Add honey and when thoroughly mixed, add 2 more cups of flour, and stir in the wheat germ.
- Sprinkle sugar, salt, and baking soda over the mixture.
- Gentlypress into dough and mix lightly.
- Allow to stand from 30 to 50 minutes until mixture is bubbly.
- Add enough flour until the dough cleans the sides of the bowl.
- Then place the dough on a lightly floured board and kead 100 times or until silky mixture is developed.
- Form into 4 1-lb loaves, place in well-greased loaf pans 9 x 3 size.
- Let rise until double, about 2 to 3 hours in a warm room.
- Then bake in hot oven, 400 degrees F, for 20 minutes.
- Reduce oven temp.
- to 325 degrees F.
- and bake 20 minutes longer or until thoroughly baked.
- Remove from pans and place loaves on rack to cool.
- Butter tops of loaves to prevent hard crustyness.
- Makes 4 1-lb Loaves
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