Dissolve all of your active starter in 175 g of water (or more if
the dough feels stiff), add 4 tablespoons of olive oil, 300 g of flour, and 2 pinches of salt.
If
the dough feels stiff, you can add additional water by the tablespoon full until it feels soft and tender, just slightly tacky to the touch.
If
the dough feels stiff, add more water until pliable.
Not exact matches
If your
dough should become too
stiff to work with and you
feel you have added too much flour, add 1 - 2 tablespoons water and continue to knead until the gluten has developed.
If your
dough has
felt stiff and heavy in the past, try using slightly less flour next time and knead the
dough for longer to help develop the gluten.
The
dough comes out a little wetter or
stiffer depending on how fluffy the flour was, or if it was more settled in the cup, but after baking a lot of bread you can tell by the
feel how your loaf will come out and you don't have to use a scale.
100 g)(28 %) 50 g brown sugar (12 %) 85 g unsalted softened butter (24 %) 7 g salt (2 %) 110 g milk (31 %) ** 90 g raisins, soaked in rum (25 %) *** lemon zest of one lemon orange zest of one orange pinch of ground cloves 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg ** NOTE: Please
feel free to add more liquid (steps of 10 g), if you
feel the
dough is too
stiff and all the flour is difficult to incorporate.
100 g)(28 %) 50 g brown sugar (12 %) 85 g unsalted softened butter (24 %) 7 g salt (2 %) 110 g milk (31 %) * * NOTE: Please
feel free to add more liquid (steps of 10 g), if you
feel the
dough is too
stiff and all the flour is difficult to incorporate.
This is very
stiff starter, so its consistency will
feel more like a
dough and you might not see any rise in the first few hours.
If the
dough feels dry, don't be tempted to add too much of additional liquid - mixing in the butter in the following phase will soften the
dough (experiment with the softness of the
dough)- but do add the liquid if the
dough is too
stiff.
My gut
feeling is that if you wait to roll out the
dough, it will become too
stiff to roll out.