Your First Sourdough Test Loaf
Hello newbie sourdough bakers! You made your sourdough starter and now you want to make your first loaf of sourdough bread. I made a whole series of videos to show how to make your own sourdough starter from day one all the way to baking your first loaf of bread. So since you already have […]
Figuring Out Baker’s Percent
Let’s talk about…. Photo above is formula for Onion Cheese Batter Bread BAKER’S PERCENT Baker’s percent can be a difficult concept for those who are new to it. Baker’s use this method because it is easy for them to scale a formula using baker’s percent.With baker’s percent, the flour weight is the scale used to weight […]
Pasta Water Sourdough
It’s amazing where your mind will wander to sometimes. I’ve made sourdough bread using different types of liquid starch water mixtures, like roux, scalded flour, Tangzhong and other types of cooked starch mixtures. Once you cook (gelatinize) the starch in the mixture and let it cool, you can add it to your dough and it […]
Keeping Your Dough Warm
By Teresa L Greenway All rights reserved worldwide- copyright March 2015 No, I don’t mean oven temperature (check that too). I would like to talk about dough temperature. In a bakery, the dough temperature is carefully controlled because if it wasn’t, a hundred loaves might be ready for the oven too soon and then […]
San Francisco Style Bread Course and Private Group
The San Francisco Baking Course and Private group have really taken off. We are having a lot of fun experimenting and sharing our San Francisco style loaves as we learn to promote the “sour” in sourdough baking. The course is available at discount here: Bake San Francisco Style Sourdough Bread. You will find a link […]
Columbia County Bread and Granola Bakery
I was sent a sample of Columbia County Bread and Granola Bakery’s sprouted grain bread. They vacuum packed it. It was really good. I feel it would have been at it’s best had I taken the time to re-crust it in the oven but it tasted good as it was too. They make a mash […]