Whole grain wheat bread with milk powder

Category: Sourdough bread

Ingredients
Leaven:
starter c / z	15g.
wheat flour, c / z	30g.
water	30g.
Dough:
leaven	75g.
wheat flour, c / z	88g.
premium wheat flour	125g.
whole milk powder	1 tsp
coarse sea salt	0.5 tsp
water	135g.

Cooking method

1. Preparation of the starter culture:
Dissolve the active starter with warm (about 30 grams) water, add flour, mix everything.
Put the container with sourdough and a mug of boiling water in a sealed bag and place in a cold oven for 4 hours.
Before kneading the dough, check the readiness of the leaven by taking a teaspoon from it and dropping it into a glass of water: if the leaven floats on the surface, then it is ready and you can start kneading (do not forget to add the floating part to the leaven).
2. Preparation of the dough:
Mix the flour with dry milk, salt, add the leaven, diluted with lukewarm water, knead at 1-2 speeds for about 4 minutes.
3. Fermentation of the dough:
Place the container with the dough and a mug of boiling water in a sealed bag in the oven for 2 hours 20 minutes-2.5 hours, changing the water a couple of times.
During this time, fold the dough into an envelope twice - 40 minutes from the start of fermentation and 40 minutes after the first folding.
4. Forming and proofing:
Stretch the dough slightly and fold the edges and turn the dough clockwise to form a ball.
Put the workpiece in a proofing basket and leave in a sealed bag (without boiling water) at room temperature for 2.5 hours.
5. Baking:
I bake like this:
20 minutes before baking, I turn on the oven to warm up with a baking pan at 240 degrees.
I spread the workpiece on a silicone mat, make cuts and lower it into a preheated pan right on the mat.
I bake for 20 minutes with a lid at 240 gr., 20 minutes. without a lid at 230 gr., leave for 10 minutes. in a slightly open oven off.
If you don't have a pot to bake in:
Bake at 240 degrees. 15-20 minutes with steam, and at 230 degrees. 20-25 minutes without steam. Leave in the unopened oven off for another 10 minutes.