The recipe I used is for sourdough focaccia. It's a hybrid of a few recipes. It goes something like this:
Make this first thing in the morning or in the evening before you go to sleep, so it has about 12-14 hours to rise.
INGREDIENTS (all organic):
Sourdough starter - Mix flour with
water to make a cottage cheese like consistency. Leave it in a jar with the top loosely on so it can breathe. Give it food (more flour and water) every day or two until you want to make bread. After about five days, a few hours or a day after you
feed again, it you will see bubbles. That means it's alive and ready for bread making. Don't feed it the day you want to make bread, until after you've used most of it for the bread.
warm water 1 1/4 cups and 1 tbsp (or a small wide-mouth jar full)
honey 1
tsp
olive oil 1 tbsp
salt 1 1/2 tsp
flour - "lo que pide la masa" - as much as the bread calls for until you can't mix it in anymore. I used half whole wheat spelt and half white flour, but you can use anything that has gluten in it.
herbs for flavor (first loaf used 2 cloves chopped garlic, oregano, and poppy seeds, second loaf used thyme). Could also use rosemary and black pepper, quite good.
TOOLS:
Bowl for mixing, measuring cups and
spoons, a fork to mix ingredients. A ceramic pot with lid for cooking, dutch
oven, or
cast iron skillet with a lid or piece of slate as the top.
PREPARATION:
Add water to bowl. Stir in honey with fork to dissolve. Mix in sourdough starter (i use the whole jar, don't worry about quantity, and I add flour and water to whatever is clinging to sides of jar to keep it alive for future bread).
Add flour a bit at a time, stirring it in with fork. When mixture is lumpy and doesn't absorb any more flour, add oil and salt and mix with fork.
Let rest for somewhere between 30-60 min.
Stretch and fold 1 min. Oil hands, and transfer to oiled dutch oven or oiled
cast iron skillet. Stretch it out to sides of container.
Place container in a warm place. If you don't have one, an electric heating pad on its lowest setting will work, that's what I use, with a trivet on top so container is not directly touching pad.
Leave it there to rise for 12-14 hours. Honestly sometimes I don't wait that long, I bake it when I see it's risen some (you see holes or bubbles on the surface and edges of dough) and when its convenient for me.
When you want to bake: In a small cup or bowl, mix equal parts oil and water (maybe 1-2 tbsp or so of each), and add some salt to make an emulsion. Maybe 1/4 teaspoon or so of the salt.
Poke dimples in the dough with your fingers, don't be afraid, they can be deep. Brush on emulsion with brush or fingers.
Sprinkle herbs for flavoring on top. I prefer the 2 cloves chopped garlic, oregano, and poppy seeds (foraged).
Bake 425F or 220F for 30 min with lid on, then 10 more min with lid off.
Let cool, and enjoy :)