Sophie's Hand Made Kefor White Organic Bread
By: Sophie32
Published: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 12:29am

Ingredients




750 gr of organic white flour
450 ml of kefir with only 1,5 %% fat
7 gr of dried yeast
1 teaspoon heaped  of Maldon sea salt, grinded in your pestle & mortar

Preparation

1 Take a large bowl & sieve the flour. Add the dried yeast & mix well into the flour. 2 Now, add the grinded salt & mix it well through the flour & yeast mix. 3 Make a well in the middle of the flour mix & pour the kefir, all of it into it. 4 With your hands, bring the kefir gradually into the flour mix. Mix well & knead until you have a softer dough. If the mix is too wet, add one tablespoon of flour at the time. If the mix is too dry, add 1 tablespoon of water, at the time. 5 Form a long shape. Place it into the large bowl & hang a warmed wrenched kitchen towel over the top. Place in a warm place, away from draught, for about 1 + 1/2 hours until the dough is doubled in size. This will be your 1st rise. 6 After that, flour your hands with the flour & take the dough out of the bowl & place on a Silpat, that you have floured. Push the dough back with your hands & quickly knead it. Make a larger shape of it. Place it onto a silpat bread sheet & flour the top a bit. Place the warmed towel on it. Place it again in a warmed place for the second rise. Let it rise for about 45 minutes till 1 hour until doubled in size. 7 When the 2de rise is nearly over, preheat the oven to 220°C ( 428 F ) if you use a normal oven. I bake with a fan oven so I put the temperature on 195°C. ( 383 F ) for 10 minutes. 8 After the 2nd rise, with a large knife, make large incisions crosswise into your bread. Do not slice all the way through your bread! 9 Place the Silpat baking sheet on a oven rack into the bottom of your oven & bake for about 35 to 40 minutes until your bread is cooked through & brown on the outstide. If you don't have that, place onto a baking sheet on the wire rack. 10 Take your bread out of the oven with oven gloves & place on a wire rack to cool down completely. The bottom of your bread must sound hollow when tapped with your fingers.

About


Recently, I started to make my own bread. This is the first bread I made. It is a lovely white bread with a chewy crust. It smells of kefir. It contains organic white flour, 450 ml of kefir, 1 heaped teaspoon of grinded sea salt & dried yeast.
You know that kefir is good for you. So why not use it in the bread?