Hi, I am planning to make a loaf in 3 days time which has to come out perfect as it's for a presentation at my local Church. I will be using Shipton Mills bread flour and Hovis fast action yeast. I would like to preferment about 300 grams of flour and use in total 800 grams. For 300 grams flour I will use 1 gram of yeast 190 grams of water at 20 degrees C and leave it overnight at room temperature for 10/12 hours. For 500 grams of flour I will use 7 ozs water at 20C temperature 10 grams of salt 6 grams of fast action yeast. After kneading for a couple of minutes I will then incorporate the prefermented portion and go on from there leaving to rise, knead again, rise for 45 minutes, fold it over and tuck it in etc., Finally leave to rise for 15 minutes before baking in a dutch oven. Altogether 4 rises including the prefermented 300 gram one. The only problem I have is the symbols I have to place on top of the bread as well as a plait around it and a couple of stencils on top. Not sure at what stage I should do this. Also do I egg ewash it or lightly oil it. I need the symbols and the plait to stick to the bread and the stencils to be prominent. Does this sound about right? Is there anything else I should do in order to succeed with a perfect bread.

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