Best Bread Machine Sourdough

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This recipe gives a slightly dense bread with a slightly chewy crust and a little tang from the sour dough, depending entirely on your sourdough. A “san francisco” sourdough starter is appropriate for this recipe.

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Steps

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Put first 4 ingredients in bread machine and stir gently.

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Let sit for about 10 minutes.

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Starter should start to bubble a little.

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Add flour , then spread oil and salt evenly over the flour.

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Select basic course or following custom settings if your bread maker has them:.

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Custom settings for zojirushi bb-cec20: preheat - 20 minutes , knead - 20 minutes , rise1 - 40 minutes , rise2 - 40 minutes , rise3 - off , bake - 58 minutes medium or dark crust setting , keep warm - off.

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Check a few minutes into kneading and add flour or water as needed to get a just slightly tacky dough that sticks to your fingers like a strong post it.

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Sourdough bread dough is a little gloopier then regular white bread.

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See directions for making a starter or order a starter online.

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Like all sourdough breads wait until at room temperature before cutting or insides will clump up and tear the insides out of the loaf.

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Ingredients

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sourdough starter, water, sugar, active dry yeast, bread flour, oil, salt