The Easy But Slow Sourdough Buns

Hello Hive and hello all the bakers around!

I'm hoping the BreadBakers community is still strong in Hive too, but if it's not, I'll make it strong.
With amazing and tasty bread.

That's what makes us all strong. Even when we're lazy.

Ingredients:
~400 grams of active sourdough
1 kg of flours (25% wholegrain spelt, 75% wheat)
700 grams of water
25 grams of salt
Big spoonful of honey

I tried to make this as a "lazy" recipe, so I didn't do much kneading. I just barely mixed all the ingredients and left them to rise. As usually I use a machine to knead, this time I did it with hands - and I even included the salt straight away.

So this is simple. All ingredients and mix them together.

Then I left this for 4 hours to rise.

And this is what it looked like after the 4 hour rise. The dough was amazing, even though I had minimal work for the bread. I might let my machine rest more if I'll get this nice dough with minimal kneading.

As the plan is to make buns, I couldn't let it be like that. Just some flour on the baking board so the soft dough will not stick.

Yes, it's dough.

Dough life.

Dough choices.

Life is dough, get crispy.

The dough is large enough to make 24 buns, so I cut the dough in half and rolled it into two long.. dough sticks?

I tried to translate the word "pötkö" which means a long somewhat cylinder shaped object or mass, which is usually somewhat soft or.. relaxed.

Certainly these are not sticks.

One oven tray of buns, the second batch of buns were taken to a freezer. I'm testing if I can freeze bun dough and then bake it to get some fresh buns without having to go through the long process of baking every damn time.

I could buy some fresh bread from the bakery close to us, but it's not the same.
And I'm cheap.

But let the dough rest/rise for 2 hours more.

225 degrees Celsius for ???? minutes.
I'm working from home and I put the buns in the oven, thinking "I'll check them after a while". After a while of working my wife shouted "Do you remember you have the buns in the oven!"

I didn't remember. But I'm glad she shouted, as I got the buns from the oven just in the right time. The crust was crispy, a bit too crispy as my son's teeth are falling off, so he can't chew on bread that well.

So I sprayed some water on the bread to make the crust a bit softer. Not sure if it actually helps, but if my son believes it helps, then it's enough.

Thanks for reading! And thanks for joining us on Hive!
I had promised to write about bread on Hive too, now after this I'll see if I'll come up with other topics. If the spring starts properly, I'll try to get some photography done too :)

I'm glad you all are here and I'm happy to be here.

Hive on!
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