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looks lovely, just rediscovered the large dutch pot my mum left, so will be using that to bake one of those in this weekend.
My GF likes to bake, so I might start a sour dough starter again and see if we can get that going, as we have turned into a house of bread eaters/makers.. I let my die off last time as I wasn't making enough bread to justify the constant feeding of it, this time round might be different..And I'm thinking it might be interesting to see if you can do the no knead bread with a decent sour dough starter..
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I've used this guide for a no-knead sourdough: http://www.theclevercarrot.com/2014/01/sourdough-bread-a-beginners-guide/
Very similar to the above and as you say would depend how active your starter is but I've always had a decent result from it.
The weird creases are from the parchment paper it was baked in.