How to Make Bakery-level Sourdough Bread In Your Own Oven! Tasty Thursday

Sourdough bread that tastes amazing and comes from your own oven! Yes, you can do it! Simple ingredients never tasted so delicious, though you'll need to allow some time (hands off!) for the finished product. You will need a cast iron dutch oven and a bench scraper.
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SOURDOUGH BREAD (makes 2 large loaves)
*inspired by "Tartine Bread" by Chad Robertson: amzn.to/2MWMC03
1 c starter (see • The Care and Feeding o... )
2 c water
1 c ww flour
5 cups bread flour or all purpose flour
1 TBS salt
additional .5 c water
1. Mix starter and 2 c water together, then stir in flours to combine. Let sit for 20 minutes or so.
2. Sprinkle salt and additional 1/2 c water on dough and squeeze to combine. Put into a smallish bowl (a 2-qt pyrex measuring cup is perfect). Cover lightly with cloth.
3. Every 30 minutes for the next 4 hours, "turn" the dough in the bowl by getting your hand wet and reaching in along the sides and lifting the bottom part up to cover the top. Do this 3-4 times around the dough bowl, getting all the dough.
4. Put the dough on a board and cut in half. It might be a little bit runny. Don't worry. Working with 1/2 at a time, sprinkle a bit of flour on it and turn it over, then fold the dough in on itself to make it neat. Let it sit on the board, covered lightly, for 30 minutes.
5. Again working with 1/2 at a time, sprinkle with flour and stretch into thirds, folding the dough into a nice package. Put it on a NON-TERRY CLOTH towel that's been sprinkled with cornmeal and flour, and put this package in a bowl. Repeat with the other half of the dough.
6. Put in the refrigerator overnight.
7. When you're ready to bake, preheat the oven to 500 with the top and base of a dutch oven in the oven (make sure the rack is low enough to make this work!). Preheat for 30 minutes.
8. Leaving the top in the oven, take out the base. Sprinkle one ball of dough with cornmeal and tip it into the HOT pan. Working quickly, cut a deep pattern (square or triangle or?) into the dough with a sharp knife. Put the top on the pan, and slide it into the oven.
9. Bake for 20 minutes with the top on the pan, then remove the top and continue baking for 20-30 minutes. You are looking for it to be a deep brown, so this will depend on your oven!
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