Grapefruit and Rosemary Bread

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This started off as an experiment. A lonely grapefruit in the fruit bowl on the television shelf and a handful of rosemary in the garden. 

A quick scour of the web and I've a handful of recipes for a soda-leavened cake/bread...that's not what I want. I want a proper yeast-leavened loaf. 

Time to get my thinking cap on. 

What could evolve? 

INGREDIENTS

540 gms strong white bread flour

310 gms tepid water

80 gms fresh grapefruit juice

12 gms finely chopped grapefruit zest

9 gms fine sea salt

40 gms Demerera sugar

30 gms olive oil

7 gms instant yeast

10 gms finely chopped fresh rosemary

72% hydration. 

NB: you could, at this point, consider the addition of fruit. Mixed fruit would be ideal and 240 gms of mixed fruit would be sufficient to make this dough into a rich fruit bread. 

Be careful if you then decide to add a spice (e.g. cinnamon, ginger, mixed spice, all-spice). You must consider the impact on taste and whether this would be desirable, or would you lose the intrinsic taste of grapefruit and rosemary? 

INGREDIENTS

Place all the dry ingredients into a large bowl and gradually add the grapefruit juice, oil and finally the water. You may need a little less than the 310 gms of water to produce a dough that isn't too wet and isn't too dry. If your mix won't come together into a dough, you can always add a little more flour or a little less water....watch the dough, it will tell you what it needs. 

Place the dough in a lightly-oiled bowl, cover and leave in a warm place for about an hour until the dough has doubled in volume. 

Tip the dough out onto a lightly floured board and consider......do you want one large loaf, two smaller or even three? Do you want boules or batards? Do you want some rolls? 

The choice is yours. It's all in the shaping. 

Prepare your dough into a tin, tins, or onto a baking sheet. 

Cover and leave to double in volume. 

Preheat an oven to 180⁰C (350⁰F). 

Consider if you want to glaze the top of your bread with an egg wash or a sugar/water solution and whether you want to scatter seeds over the top? 

Mist the inside of the oven and bake for up to 30 minutes until golden and hollow when tapped underneath. 

Cool on a rack. 

Happy Baking...