Buckwheat 60% Multi-grain YW / SD Bread with Walnuts, Sage, Flax, Wheat Germ, Apples, Prunes and Groats

After baking my first variation of sweetbird’s Buckwheat SD and Apple Bread here:

http://weightloss-slim.fit/node/28081/dabrownman-butchers-sweetbird%E2%80%99s-lovely-buckwheat-apple-and-apple-cider-buckwheat-groat-br%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3E%3Cimg src="/files/u41844/DSCN2771.JPG" width="769" height="600" loading="lazy">

I thought we would give it another go, since we butchered her lovely bread and also made an evil face with the boule, by removing the hard cider and replacing it with the juice used to re-hydrate the dried apples and prunes and combining it with Phil's Sage and Walnut Rye.

We added prunes, walnuts, a walnut oil paste, sage, chia, flax seed and wheat germ. The buckwheat groats remained and were used with the apples and prunes as decoration for the loaf and well as add ins.

The bread is 60% whole grain consisting of buckwheat, durum atta, rye, soft white wheat, WW, WWW, semolina and AP. The hydration was 75%

We made this bread 2 ways; in a loaf and as the ever popular Chacon. The top of the loaf was decorated with buckwheat groats and the apple prune filling and the Chacon was left nakedly unadorned.

Both baked up nicely in the mini oven. The crust was dark brown and crunchy going to chewy when cooled. The exterior of both was appealing. The crumb was ope, light, airy, moist and soft - just like the YW and SD combo bakes tend to be every time.

This bread tastes great with the buckwheat, fruit and walnuts coming though well with the hint of sage. The SD tang is muted because of the YW and hanging out in the background. We really like this bread and glad that we did another variation of it - without the ugly face!

Method and formula follow the pix's.

Chacon wedge shot of the ctrumb.

Made a great salami sandwich with veggies and fruits for lunch.

Method

Instead of our usual 3 day method we shortened it down to 24 hours. The mixed YW and SD levain was built over two 4 hour builds and one 2 hour build and then it was added to the 2 hour autolyse of; flours, apple /prune re-hydration juice liquid and salt.

The dried apples and prunes were reconstituted in water overnight in the fridge and the excess water was squeezed out and used for the dough liquid. The groats were micro waved in water for 1 minute and allowed to sit for 30 minutes. The walnut and walnut oil paste was made.

Once the autolyse was complete the levain was added and hand kneaded to mix before being allowed to rest in an plastic covered oiled bowl for 15 minutes. 6 S&F’s were done every 12 minutes. The first 2 were performed on a floured surface and the next 4 on a lightly oiled surface. Before the 5th S&F the dough was rolled pout into large circle about ½” thick and the walnut and sage paste, buckwheat groats, walnuts and apple / prune add ins placed on top. ¼ C of AP flour was added to the apple / prune mixture to help dry it out some more and not affect the overall hydration of the dough..

The dough was placed back into the oiled bowl and allowed to ferment and develop for 1 ½ hours before refrigerating for 6 hours. In the morning the dough was removed from the fridge and divided in half with the Chacon half going back in the fridge for another hour while the other half of the dough was formed into a loaf and placed into a PAM sprayed Pyrex loaf pan and allowed to rise in a plastic trash bag until doubled and passing the poke test about 2 hours.

After the additional hour in the fridge, the remainder of the dough was formed into a Chacon by making a knotted roll and placing it in the center of the folded round edges of the circular Chacon. The Chacon was formed on a cutting board so it could be inverted into the rice floured basket placed on top. Rice flour was also used to dust the top before being inverted into the basket.

The Chacon was placed into the plastic trash bag with the loaf and allowed to rise until doubled and passing the poke test.

The mini oven was heated to 500 F regular bake and Sylvia’s steaming method using a wash cloth and 1 C Pyrex measure ½ full of water installed on the back of the oven after being micro waved until the water boils. We decided to slash this loaf at the last minute and then steamed it in the mini oven for 12 minutes with the temperature turned down to 450 F at the 4 minute mark. At the 12 minute mark the steam was removed and the temperature turned down to 425 F – convection this time.

The loaf was rotated 180 degrees every 5 minutes and it was removed from the pan at the first 5 minute rotation. At the 32 minute mark the loaf was done, reading 205 F on the inside and allowed to dry in the off oven with door ajar for 10 minutes. The loaf was them allowed to cool on a wire rack while the mini oven was steam prepared and preheated for the Chacon in the same way as the loaf.

The Chacon was removed from the basket by inverting it onto parchment paper with the perforated top of the broiler used as a baking tray. The decoration of buckwheat groats, apple and prune fruits was added. The same baking method was used for the Chacon as the loaf.

Buckwheat 60% Multi-grain YW / SD Bread with Walnuts, Sage, Flax, Wheat Germ, Apples, Prunes and Groats

Mixed Starter	Build 1	Build 2	Build 3	Total	%
SD Starter	20	15	0	35	5.71%
Yeast Water	40	25	10	75	16.30%
Rye	20	0	0	20	4.35%
AP	0	35	10	45	9.78%
Buckwheat	20	30	0	50	10.87%
WWW	0	0	20	20	4.35%
Water	0	25	10	35	7.61%
Total Starter	100	130	50	280	60.87%

Starter
Hydration	83.61%
Levain % of Total	21.44%

Dough Flour		%
Durum Atta	25	5.43%
Soft White Wheat	115	25.00%
Rye	20	4.35%
White WW	20	4.35%
Buckwheat	115	25.00%
AP	115	25.00%
Semolina	30	6.52%
Potato Flakes	10	2.17%
Ground Flax Seed	10	2.17%
Dough Flour	460	100.00%
Salt	9	1.96%
Apple/ Prune Water - Water	375	81.52%
Dough Hydration	81.52%

Total Flour	612.5
Apple/ Prune Water - Water	502.5
T. Dough Hydration	82.04%
Whole Grain %	61.63%

Hydration w/ Adds	75.28%
Total Weight	1,306

Add - Ins		%
Wheat Germ	10	2.17%
Walnut Oil	5	1.09%
Prunes	34	7.39%
Dried Apples	33	7.17%
VW Gluten	15	3.26%
Walnuts 25, chia 10, flax 10,	45	9.78%
Total	182	39.57%

1 tsp Dried Sage Added to Walnuit Oil and Walnut Paste

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What a great looking bake DA.

The crumb looks amazing...nice and moist and chock full of assorted goodies.

I love your last group shot photo as well.

Nice job.

Regards.

Ian

My daughter had some and said 'Are there apples in this?' Makes for a nice breakfast bread when toasted with butter. Think we will bake some white SD bread as the freezer is full of YW / SD 40% - 90% whole grains with sprouts, add in etc. Maybe 5% rye and WW combined with 45% AP and 50% durum atta - should be yellow inside, nicely brown on the outside with the only add ins some dried sage and rosemary. A simple SD white bread. Have to refresh the SD anyway.

Thanks again

Look forward to hearing about your next "simple" bake...

I have to work on putting my Mudslide Coffee Multi-grain up.

Regards,
Ian

SD starter is a litte weak, maybe because I froze it, but we hope to bake the white bread today

Look forward to it.

I'm thinking of making some YW English Muffins this weekend.

Have you made those before?

but I did with SD here

http://weightloss-slim.fit/node/27206/sourdough-english-muffins#comments%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3EI used kjknits recipe, which was fantastic - the spring and crumb was amazing, so if you go to her blog or post you can get the recipe and modify it for YW by replacing the water in the levain with YW.

I have another recipe I had found on TFL that was posted by Howard who adapted a recipe by Dan Lepard. I am converting this one over from yeast to YW. I think it should work....I guess by Sunday we will find out!

I will check out your recipe as well.

Thanks.

Homey and comfortable sure, but here you are making healthy bread beautiful! The combination of goodies carried forth by simple grains is just lovely to see. Thanks for inspiring me to finally try using more dried fruit in my baking. Last week I made Vienna Bread and I tried adding some thinly sliced apple cinnamon crisps. They mostly disappeared into the dough, leaving only the slightest hint of flavor. I think the dried apples will be better.

I overproofed two loaves of Country White this morning. They recovered some in the oven but kind of resemble hubcaps since they are only about 4 inches high in the middle. They will still taste good with the added olive oil and fresh rosemary. Just not very pretty.

Looking forward to seeing your white bread, starter is fed and growing, I'm ready to start over.

nice comments! Sorry to hear about your hub caps. We all experience those odd failures now and again - like my white bread sticking to its mastaba 'articulating' form yesterday :-(

Thankfully, no matter what, these challenged loaves usually taste just fine :-)

I'm for putting what ever sounds good in bread - from sprouts, to fruit, to spice, to herb, to odd liquid s......

The white bread is posted here

http://weightloss-slim.fit/node/29145/sourdough-duram-atta-bread-%E2%80%93-pharaoh%E2%80%99s-mastaba-style#comments%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3EThanks again for your fine comments.