Best Bread Machine Sourdough

Total Time: 3 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• 1 cup sourdough starter, you must have a starter available
• 3/4 cup water, warm about 110f
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 tablespoon active dry yeast (not rapid rise yeast)
• 3 cups bread flour
• 3 tablespoons oil
• 2 teaspoons salt

Recipe

• 1 put first 4 ingredients in bread machine and stir gently. (yes, this works…).
• 2 let sit for about 10 minutes. starter should start to bubble a little.
• 3 add flour, then spread oil and salt evenly over the flour.
• 4 select basic course or following custom settings if your bread maker has them:.
• 5 custom settings for zojirushi bb-cec20: preheat - 20 minutes ( i start cycle after mixing first four ingredients then add remaining three ingredients after ten minutes), knead - 20 minutes, rise1 - 40 minutes, rise2 - 40 minutes, rise3 - off, bake - 58 minutes medium or dark crust setting ( i use medium), keep warm - off.
• 6 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 note and stretches smoothly without tears when kneading. sourdough bread dough is a little gloopier then regular bread.
• 7 see directions for making a starter or order a starter online.
• 8 like all sourdough breads wait until at room temperature before cutting or insides will clump up and tear the insides out of the loaf.