Have you try baking bread with 17hrs pre-fermented dough method? If not I suggest you to try at least once! Because you are going to love it! The bread texture is soft, fluffy and can last for longer time. Do check out in my previous posts Cream Cheese Buns and Wholemeal Bread.
Don’t be scared by the 17hours as the yeast is the one doing the job for you :D Just prepare the sponge dough (less than 5 minutes effort!) and store in fridge after an hour rise at room temperature. Proceed with the bread making method as usual. Sounds easy right?
Since I’m going to bake with corn I used cream corn as the liquid portion. I baked into a plain loaf and a sausage cheese loaf. You can choose to bake in any form you like.
Ingredients:
~17 hours pre-fermented sponge dough(yield about 300g)
¼ teaspoon instant yeast
150g water
150g bread flour
Add yeast, water and flour in sequence into a container (same container for storage as well). Mix with spatula till well combine. Cover and leave at room temperature for an hour. Keep inside refrigerator at least 16 hours before used.
~Main dough (yield about 890g dough which enough for two 450g sandwich loaf tins)
50g sugar
½ teaspoon salt
½ egg (lightly beaten. Keep the other 1/2 for egg wash)
150ml cream corn (canned)
350g bread flour
1 teaspoon instant yeast
30g butter
~ Filling 40g shredded cheddar cheese 2 sausages (diced) 1 onion (diced) *Mix together and set aside
Methods:
1. Put all pre-fermented sponge dough into mixing bowl. Follow by the rest of ingredients for main dough except butter. Knead till form dough. Then add in butter and knead till form smooth and elastic. Cover and leave to rest for 1 hour 15 minutes.
2. De-gas dough and transfer on a lightly floured surface. Divide the dough into 2 portions. a) Loaf bread -Shape one of the portions into round and set aside to rest for 10 minutes. Roll out the dough into rectangle shape with rolling pin. Then, roll up like swiss roll. Place into lined or lightly oiled baking tin (I’m using L21 cm x W10 cm x H11 cm sandwich tin).
b) Sausage loaf (refer here for steps) -Divide the other portion into 4 (about 110g each). Shape into round and leave to rest for 10 minutes. Roll out into round and wrap ¼ of the sausage cheese filling into ball. Repeat the same for the rest. -Slightly flatten the ball with hand. Brush some oil on surface. Cover the oiled dough with the other flatten ball. Repeat the same for the other balls. It will give you 2 sets of stacking dough. -Roll out the stacked dough into rectangle shape (the length should be about length of baking pan). Brush the rectangle surface with oil, roll up like a swiss roll. Repeat the same for the other dough. -With a scraper, cut each roll into 6 equal triangles as shown. Then transfer into lined/ oiled baking pan. Make sure the sealing side is facing down.
3. Leave to prove for about 45 minutes or until double in size. Apply egg wash. Bake in preheated oven at 170C for 30 minutes. Cover with aluminum foil if the colour brown too fast. * Do adjust according to your oven temperature.
4. Remove the bread immediately from baking tin and leave to cool completely on a wire rack. While is hot brush the surface with some butter. This will give you shine looking bread and yield soft crust. I'm sharing this bread recipe at :
~ Yeastspotting
~Little Thumbs up organised byZoe ,Bake for Happy Kidsand Mui Mui, My Little Favourite DIY and hosted byEsther, Copycake Kitchen
