A Lahey Style Rye Bread with Whole Wheat, Rye Starter, and All Purpose flours

A Lahey-style Rye Bread

You know, looking back on the various rye breads I've made, none has impressed me more than a rye and whole wheat loaf I made, long ago.  If you peruse the crumb gallery, you can find this loaf:

 The link will take you to a day where I made 3 different rye loaves; this one was the second loaf, a 3:1 whole wheat to rye loaf made using Lahey's methods.

Looking at it now, I wonder why it rose so well.  It had used rye but no sourdough.  It had used whole wheat flour, no bread flour or all purpose flour.  And I began to wonder, what if?…

What if…

* I used some all purpose, in addition to that whole wheat flour?
* I used some sourdough?
* What if I used some of my homemade sourdough yeast?

I've incorporated some of these ideas here.  The amount of rye in this one is different from the 'wonderful loaf' I made in the past, though: it is a 50% rye, and only 75% whole grain; 25% of the wheat flour is all purpose.

Ingredients:

• 100g freshly milled whole wheat
• 100g rye flour
• 100g all purpose flour
• 200g rye starter @100% hydration
• 200g water
• 8g salt
• 2g commercial yeast
• 2g my homemade sourdough yeast

Method:

Mix it all together
Leave it covered for 18 hours.
Stretch it and fold it like Lahey describes.
Shape it.
Put it in a couche and basket for a couple of hours.
Bake in a casserole dish.

Results:

Yummy.

This was a fairly nice tasting bread, but it didn't see the nice rises I wanted, and I used a too-small casserole dish, making it slightly misshapen.