Sweet Bread with Sourdough Starter

As I mentioned earlier, my supporter for sourdough bread decrease to left only 1 of my kid.  I have to think of something or completely discontinue to feed the sourdough starter.

In order to continue yielding the sourdough starter every week, this mommy start to do some research on how to utilize the sourdough starter on our normal bread( which is sweeter). I'm not so easy to give up, 😊😊😊.

Then..........I bought a DUTCH OVEN! I bought it from Ikea since it is cheaper and I do not plan to use cast iron pot for cooking beside baking this type of bread. 

Below was the first bake tuning with Dutch oven and also first modified Sweet bread with sourdough starter, meaning no instant yeast added.  By the way, forgot to mention that it really smell so good with natural starter compare to instant yeast.  

Round 1:

Modified Sweet bread using sourdough starter turn out very nice and welly accepted by my kids.  However, the exterior skin still not as good as I expected it to be.

Dutch oven did yield the better bread skin, the crunchiness is no way compare with without using it. 

However, crunchiness never able to last to second day. Therefore, we like to take it directly on first day, and then toast it on second day.

Below is our favorite garlic butter bread on second day bread. Somehow my kids really like the garlic butter bread make from this natural starter. The texture of the bread become crispy again and internal texture are very soft. This become our favorite food lately.

Fine Tuning Stages:

Continue fine tuning on this exploration. This round I brush out the flour after bake. Thus, it make it not so nice  on the outlook ( bad move), and the skin was a bit over cook as well.

Another week tuning, I am feeling satisfied with this external skin output already. 

Then, one more week later........Getting excited with the result now.  All the cut done before putting the dough into the Dutch oven turn out very nice finally.