Bread #1

This is the recipe of the first bread I ever made. It's a 80/20 rye/wheat bread with rye sourdough with a wheat poolish. I bought a recipe book during my Christmas visit in Germany about 3 years ago and when I came back I tried out this recipe. I had never done anything like it before and had no equipment except a mixer. Instead of a banneton I used woven basket I had around and that didn't work all that well but good enough. Also, I didn't want to buy too many ingredients before I knew if I wanted to continue baking bread, so I used only whole grain rye flour, which works too. Texture and taste were so close to what I knew from when I lived back in Germany that I continued baking my own bread for the last 3 years and hardly ever buy a bread in the store. Very easy to make for a sourdough bread and only a few ingredients needed.