I gave up on producing a showy loaf a long time ago. I always rolled my eyes a little when I saw photos online of perfect bloom or wide-open crumb. "The mustard is going to just fall right through," I would think to my self disapprovingly, shaking my head a little. It turns out, I was just jealous. After a decade of gluten-free bread baking and recipe development, and through a collaboration with some other bakers, I've come up with a gf sourdough bread recipe that produces an open crumb, a large bloom, and sometimes, if I'm lucky, an ear. The bread has a very mild, pleasant sourdough flavor and is very light in color. The crumb is very open but not too delicate. It has a chewiness to the texture that I associate with a good sourdough bread. The crust gets a nice browning and it toasts up nicely. And I don't mind the mustard falling through as much as I thought I would. Many thanks to Michael Hollesen who came up with the original version of this reci...
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