Wild Yeast

THE BASIC RECIPE

This recipe will allow you to practice easily with few ingredients: white wheat flour, water, active wild yeast starter, and salt. These are basic ingredients for making your wild yeast bread, but the whole point of the recipe is to experiment with the amount of water that you use, in order to determine the optimal quantity to add so that the dough will be sufficiently hydrated, and especially so that you will feel comfortable with handling and shaping the dough.

The quantity of water given in this recipe is intended as a guideline. It always depends on the quality of the flour and your ability to handle a very soft dough. You should always start with a small amount of water, then add more gradually, so that you have time to ...