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Pain de Campagne (French country bread)

Delicious Pain de Campagne/ French rustic bread made with sourdough starter and three different flours, bread flour, rye, aspelt flour salt and water. It has a crisp, golden crust and a soft, airy crumb with a slightly tangy flavor due to natural fermentation.
Prep Time5 hours
Cook Time50 minutes
Resting the dough8 hours
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: French
Keyword: #sourdoughbread, Pain de Campagne
Servings: 12 pieces
Calories: 152kcal

Ingredients

  • 3 ¼ cups / 425g Artisan Bread flour
  • ¼ cup / 25g Rye flour
  • cup / 50g Spelt flour.
  • ½ cup / 100g sourdough starter
  • 1.75 tsp/ 10g salt

Instructions

  • First make active sourdough starter
  • Make Dough
  • In a bowl, add water (365g) and mix sourdough starter. Then add bread flour , spelt, rye flour, and mix . Knead for 1-2 minutes until well combined. Cover and let rest for 30 minutes to one hour.
  • Then add salt and rest of water (10g). Mix well and cover the dough again and set aside for an hour
  • Stretch and fold.
  • Then stretch and fold the dough after 2 hours. This means grabbing the underside of the dough and stretching it up and over the rest of the dough. Perform a few of these turns each time you handle the dough.
  • Two ways to complete the process from here, either cover the dough with plastic paper and refrigerate overnight and next morning continue from here. In that case after shaping keep the dough at room temperature for 2 hours and score and bake.
  • Otherwise continue the step from here.
  • Shaping the dough
  • After one hour , transfer the dough to a lightly floured workspace and shape it into round Boule. To this add nutmeg and cinnamon and mix in everything.
  • Fold the third of the dough closest to you inward, and then stretch the dough out to the sides. Fold the right, and then the left side toward the center. Fold the top of the dough inward, and then wrap the bottom part of the dough over it all. If you want, you can make pre-shape and set aside for 15 minutes and then make a final shape.
  • Work this into a round shape, and place seam side up in a proofing basket lined well with flour.
  • Cold proof
  • After transferring to Banneton, Let rise the dough overnight in the refrigerator. You can keep this cold retard up to 14 hours.
  • Score and Bake
  • When you are ready to bake preheat oven to 475°F.
  • Remove the dough from the proofing basket and score and transfer to Dutch oven and close the lid and immediately place the top back on and return to the oven.
  • Bake the bread at 475°F for 15 minutes.
  • Turn the heat down to 450°F and cook for 15 minutes.
  • After 15 minutes remove the top of the Dutch oven and rotate the pan. Continue to bake the bread for another 15-20 minutes, until the crust is deeply caramelized.
  • If you want crackling crust after switching off the oven keep oven door ajar and keep the bread inside.
  • Once bread comes out of oven enjoy with some butter

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Nutrition

Calories: 152kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 0.1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 58mg | Potassium: 42mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 0.1g | Vitamin A: 1IU | Calcium: 6mg | Iron: 1mg
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