Baking Recipes

Hermann Basic Recipe

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time 20 mins
Total Time 20 mins
Course Baking
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 1)

Ingredients

For the dough: (basic dough)

  • 0.5 ½ point yeast (dry yeast)
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 200 ml water
  • 100 grams flour

For the dough: (day 5)

  • 150 grams sugar
  • 100 grams flour
  • 200 ml milk

For the dough: (day 10)

  • 150 grams sugar
  • 100 grams flour
  • 200 ml milk
Hermann Basic Recipe
Hermann Basic Recipe

Instructions

  1. Put the sifted flour in a bowl with a lid.
  2. Add sugar, yeast and water and stir everything with a wooden spoon. Let the dough stand in a warm place for two days with the lid closed. Stir the dough every now and then.
  3. Then put the dough in the refrigerator for 24 hours.
  4. Now you have a dough as if you had been given it. And this is how you continue:
  5. Store dough in the refrigerator.
  6. Day 1: Let rest
  7. Day 2: stir
  8. 3rd day: stir
  9. 4th day: stir
  10. 5th day: feeding. Put Hermann in a larger container and mix with 150g sugar, 100g flour and 200ml milk.
  11. Day 6: stir
  12. Day 7: stir
  13. Day 8: stir
  14. Day 9: Stirring
  15. Day 10: feeding. Mix Hermann with 150g sugar, 100g flour and 200ml milk.
  16. Then divide the dough into 4 parts.
  17. What you do with the 4 parts of Herman is up to you. You can give up one or more parts, bake, freeze or continue growing. For breeding you start again on day one, otherwise you can simply freeze Hermann or bake a cake out of it.
Editorial Staff

About Editorial Staff

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