Sourdough Oatmeal Maple Bread

Adapted recipe from Alexandra’s Bread Toast Crumbs cookbook to use sourdough. After soaking the oatmeal and mixing the flours I had to add additional water then additional flour.

Ingredients

  • 100g (1 cup) old fashioned oats
  • 1c boiling water
  • 1/2c maple syrup
  • 100g sourdough starter
  • 228g (2 1/4 cups) all purpose flour
  • 128g (1 cup) whole wheat flour
  • 2t instant yeast
  • 2t kosher salt
  • 2T butter

Steps

  • add oat, maple syrup to boiling water in small boil, let sit for 10m
  • mix flours, salt, yeast, starter in large bowl
  • add oat mixture, mix with wooden spoon
  • add additional water and flour until forms a ball
  • let sit for 1 to 1.5 hours until doubles in size
  • butter generously 2 1 quart bowls
  • divide dough into 2 balls, add each to bowl
  • preheat oven to 375
  • let sit 20m until dough rises to bowl top
  • bake for 40m until bread reaches 200F and is golden color
  • remove from bowl let cool on wire rack for 30m before slicing