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Panasonic Bread Maker 100% Golden Wholemeal Sourdough Loaf recipe

Name: Panasonic Bread Maker 100% Golden Wholemeal Sourdough Loaf
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 h
Total time: 29 h 10 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 80g wholemeal rye flour; 60g plain yoghurt; ½ tsp salt (I use kosher); 80ml water (20°C); 0.1g dried yeast (use the sourdough starter spoon to measure this); 215g sourdough starter; 320g Marriage's Golden Wholegrain bread flour; ¾ tsp salt (I use kosher); 150ml water; ½ tsp dried yeast (I use Allinson Easy Bake Yeast)

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If your Panasonic bread maker has a “sourdough” setting, i.e. it uses a yoghurt/yeast starter (I know), and you have Marriage’s golden wholegrain bread flour, try this recipe. For other wholemeal flours, check out the original recipe.

Prep10m
Stand24h
Cook5h
Total29h 10m

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Panasonic Bread Maker Sourdough Loaf using Marriage's Golden Flour

If you’re a sourdough purist, turn back now. Trust me, you’ll just get cross. Okay, onwards. Yes, Panasonic’s sourdough isn’t proper sourdough, but hear me out because this bread ticks some good boxes:

Chewy crust ✔️
Complex flavour ✔️
Makes your home smell amazing while baking ✔️
100% wholemeal ✔️

It’s so easy: measure ingredients, put into machine. You could set the timer for up to 9 hours and wake up to freshly baked bread. Did I mention the smell? Heavenly.

I’ve made Proper Sourdough before, feeding a lively starter, autolysing, coil folding, etc. It’s divine; I even appreciate the teeth-shattering bottom crust. But it takes so much time. And I never quite got the hang of shaping. So, for now, while time is scarce, I’m using my bread machine.

My previous Panasonic sourdough recipe recommended 50% wholewheat flour at most. 100% was unthinkable… until I discovered Marriage’s golden wholegrain flours. This is my fourth recipe in just a few months and by far my favourite use of their bread flour.

You’ll need to make the starter 24 hours in advance, but if you’ve ever made a non-yeast starter and been through the gym socks/vomit phase, you probably won’t mind.

My SD-ZB2512 bread maker is getting on now (it was purchased in 2015, wow). A quick Google shows that Panasonic have kept their yoghurt sourdough programs on recent models like the SD-ZX2522, SD-YR2540 and SD-YR2550. So hopefully this recipe is useful beyond my machine.

I know it's demanding (you'll need a Panasonic bread maker, you must use Marriage's flour) but I'm just so impressed with this loaf. And, of course, a dough-only recipe will make an appearance soon.

Notes

You can delay when the bread maker will finish by up to 9 hours when using menu 10 ('rustic sourdough' on the ZB2512).

Make sure that the water for the sourdough starter is 20°C. When my thermometer broke and I tried to guess the temperature I ended up ruining my starter.

Once you’ve made the starter you don’t have to use it straightaway — it'll keep in the fridge for up to one week and can be used straight from the fridge — there's no need to let it come up to room temperature. It can't be frozen.

Recipe

Panasonic Bread Maker 100% Golden Wholemeal Sourdough Loaf

Prep10m
Stand24h
Cook5h
Total29h 10m

Makes: 1 loaf

Ingredients

Sourdough starter

80g wholemeal rye flour
60g plain yoghurt
½ tsp salt (I use kosher)
80ml water (20°C)
0.1g dried yeast (use the sourdough starter spoon to measure this)

100% wholemeal sourdough loaf

215g sourdough starter
320g Marriage's Golden Wholegrain bread flour
¾ tsp salt (I use kosher)
150ml water
½ tsp dried yeast (I use Allinson Easy Bake Yeast)

Method

Sourdough starter

Add 80g of wholemeal rye flour, 60g of plain yoghurt, ½ teaspoon of salt, 80ml of water (at 20°C), and 0.1g of active yeast into the plastic cup that comes with the bread maker. Stir to combine.
Select menu 27 (on the Panasonic ZB2512). The starter will ferment for 24 hours. Make sure to select the correct menu option otherwise the cup will melt and the starter will be ruined.

Loaf

Once the 24 hour cycle has finished, remove the starter from the bread maker and put the normal blade in the loaf tin. Add all of the starter into the loaf tin (around 215g). It should have a slightly sour, alcoholic, fermented smell.
Add 320g of Marriage’s golden wholegrain bread flour, ¾ teaspoon of salt and 150ml of water to the loaf tin then put it in the bread maker. Add ½ teaspoon of yeast to the yeast dispenser and select menu 10, ‘Rustic sourdough’ (5 hours). You can delay when the bread maker will finish by up to 9 hours.
When the timer sounds, remove the loaf from the tin and place onto a rack. Allow to cool a little before slicing.