Sourdough Molasses Brown Bread – Milk and Pop

junho 28, 2024

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Gentle, tender, and wealthy, this candy Sourdough Molasses Brown Bread is made with easy components and tastes even higher than the one you will get at Outback.

Sourdough brown bread roll, sliced, on a wooden board and parchment paper.

Why Bake It

I really like baking with sourdough, and I really like Outback Brown Bread. It took me some time to create a copycat sourdough model, however it’s lastly right here!

This bread roll combines white and entire wheat flour, with a touch of sweetness and a wealthy taste. It is good as a barbecue aspect and makes a scrumptious smooth bread for sandwiches that received’t collapse.

Substances

Ingredients used for making this recipe separated into glass bowls.

Lively Sourdough Starter: Your starter must be energetic for this recipe to work.

Complete Wheat Flour and All-Goal Flour: Use each flours. No want for high-protein bread flour. I’ve tried with each all-purpose and bread flour, and the primary makes a softer bread.

Molasses: Provides depth of taste. I exploit fancy molasses, however blackstrap can be utilized for a much less candy bread. For a molasses substitute, use an equal quantity of honey. This can make the bread sweeter, with a lighter colour and fewer caramel taste.

Oil: Use vegetable oil, avocado oil, canola oil, or any unflavored oil. You can even substitute with melted butter (unsalted or salted).

Honey: Select your favourite honey. For a vegan model, substitute with maple syrup or my vegan honey, which tastes similar to the actual factor.

Cornmeal (Optionally available): Cornmeal is non-obligatory, however I like the feel it provides to those rolls. If you happen to don’t need to use it, it’s high quality: simply mud the baking sheet with flour, and prime the rolls along with your favourite topping (I exploit oats when baking my cheesecake manufacturing unit brown rolls!), or omit it fully.

How To Make It

Begin by getting ready your sourdough starter. It must be energetic, so feed it 6 to eight hours earlier than planning to do that recipe.

Wet ingredients of this recipe in a metal bowl.

Step 01. In a bowl, combine water, sourdough starter, honey, molasses, and oil. I exploit a dough mixer to combine every thing collectively, however a spoon will even do the job.

Step 02. Add entire wheat and all-purpose flour, cocoa powder, and salt. Combine till a dough is fashioned.

Dough before bulk fermentation, in a glass bowl.

Step 03. Knead for about 8 minutes if utilizing a stand mixer, or 15 to twenty minutes if doing so by hand.

Dough after bulk fermentation, in a glass bowl.

Step 04. Switch the dough to a clear bowl, cowl so the highest doesn’t dry out, and let it rise for six to eight hours, or till the dough has risen to about 75% of its unique dimension.

Tip 01: This dough is a bit annoying to knead by hand, as it may possibly stick rather a lot at the start. If you happen to’re having issues kneading, attempt to moist or flour your fingers.

Tip 02: If you would like, oil the bowl so the dough doesn’t persist with it. I normally don’t; mine sticks a bit to the edges, however I can simply take away it, as you may see within the video.

Step 05. After bulk fermentation, you may decide to let it chilly ferment for as much as 48 hours, or form and bake. Divide the dough into 4 equal components. Allow them to relaxation for 10 minutes earlier than shaping.

Step 06. On a clear floor, utilizing your fingers, open each bit of dough right into a rectangle. Once more, when you’re having issues working with this dough, you may moist or flour your fingers, and/or flour the floor you’ll be engaged on.

Step 07. Roll the dough right into a log and pinch the ends collectively to shut the roll.

Rolls before baking with cornmeal on top.

Step 08. Place every formed roll on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and dusted with cornmeal. The cornmeal will forestall the dough from sticking to the parchment paper. Mud cornmeal on the highest of every roll, and allow them to rise lined for 1 hour to 1.5 hours.

When prepared, they’ll feel and look puffy. Don’t fear in case your rolls don’t rise an excessive amount of; mine by no means do, however they develop fairly nicely within the oven.

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Uncover and bake the rolls for 25 to Half-hour. Allow them to cool for a minimum of Half-hour earlier than serving.

Skilled Suggestions

Need to hold the crust softer for longer? You’ll be able to copy what I at all times do when baking my Subway Bread and brush the highest with butter when out of the oven!

Don’t add greater than the desired quantity of entire wheat flour, or the rolls won’t prove as smooth.

I add each cups and grams when sharing my bread recipes, however I like to recommend getting a kitchen scale and sticking to grams if doable. It offers you a greater consequence, particularly when you’re a newbie baker and new to baking bread and sourdough.

Questions You Would possibly Have

Can I bake sandwich bread with this recipe? Sure, you may make sourdough sandwich brown bread with this recipe. If doing so, when shaping, observe the directions for my sourdough sandwich bread.

Can I exploit the proof operate in my oven throughout bulk fermentation (first rise)? Sure, you may. I’ve performed it for this recipe, particularly throughout winter when it’s tougher for my dough to rise, and it gave me good outcomes. It normally takes from 5 to six hours for the dough to rise when proofing within the oven.

Can I make the dough within the night and let it rise at room temperature in a single day? Sure, you may let it rise in a single day on the counter. Due to the honey and molasses on this recipe, the dough would possibly take a bit longer to rise, so it’s okay to let it rise in a single day.

Can I make dinner rolls with this recipe? Sure, you may make dinner rolls with this recipe. If doing so, observe the shaping directions for these sourdough dinner rolls.

Storing and Freezing

If these sourdough rolls are saved appropriately, they hold for as much as one week. After cooling, retailer in a bread keeper or bag, away from daylight. You’ll be able to retailer in an hermetic container (be sure it’s clear, as throughout excessive temperatures, storing this manner can result in mildew growth).

To freeze, look ahead to the rolls to chill. Then, place every in a freezer-safe bag, seal it, and retailer within the freezer. They hold for as much as 3 months.

The crumb of a sourdough brown bread roll over a wooden board and parchment paper.

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