Bille and Victor’s Casserole Bread with Butter

DIFFICULTY
Average Average
PREP TIME
Under 2 Hrs. Under 2 Hrs.
COOK TIME
Under 1 Hr. Under 1 Hr.
SERVES
2-4 2-4
Bille and Victor’s Casserole Bread with Butter
Main INGREDIENTS
  • Bread & Cereals
  • Flour
Ingredients
Method

Ingredients

  • 560 g high-quality wheat flour
  • 560 g water
  • 240 g coarse flour (e.g., purple wheat or Öland wheat)
  • 180 g sourdough (or 10 g yeast)
  • 24 g salt
  • Method

  • 1
    The day before: Mix water, flour, and sourdough in a mixer for 5 minutes. If you don’t have a mixer, knead the dough by hand for about 15 minutes.
  • 2
    Add salt and knead for another 2 minutes (5 minutes by hand).
  • 3
    Turn the dough out into a bowl greased with a little neutral oil and fold it under itself from all sides to make the dough tight and create good, long gluten connections. Repeat this process every half hour for 2 hours.
  • 4
    Before shaping the dough, sprinkle a little rice flour on the kitchen counter. With a dough scraper, tighten the dough from all angles until you have a very tight dough.
  • 5
    Let the dough rest on the counter for 1 hour under a dry cloth. When the dough has rested, fold it over itself from top to bottom and place it upside down in a proofing basket sprinkled with a little rice flour. You can use a cloth in the proofing basket. Cold-proof the dough overnight in the refrigerator at 5°C.
  • 6
    On the day: Place the Le Creuset pot in the oven for half an hour at 250°C.
  • 7
    When the pot is hot, turn your cold-proofed dough into the bottom of the pot, and cut the top of the dough with a sharp knife at about a 70-degree angle.
  • 8
    Bake the bread with the lid on at 250°C for 20 minutes.
  • 9
    After 20 minutes, remove the lid and bake the bread at 200°C until it has a core temperature of 99 degrees.
  • 10
    Meanwhile, temper 100 g butter, which you whisk until airy with a whisk and sprinkle with a little flaky salt before serving.
  • 11
    Serve with the freshly baked bread after it has rested for 20 minutes.