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Baguette Recipe with Pate Fermente

The thing that makes baguettes and French bread so good is the pate fermente (or old dough). It’s what is called a preferment and it helps the dough get a good texture, taste and crust. You can make a pate just for the recipe you need, although it needs about 18 hours to really get [...]

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Sourdough Ciabatta

I have been having a blast making artisan bread with the Artisan Breads at Home recipe book. They have a very strict sense of sourdough and how the starter should be constructed. It is different than anything I’ve done before, but I’ve had such fun and good luck with the breads I made thus far [...]

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Artisan Bread

I recently got the book: Artisan Breads at Home. The first bread I made was the peasant bread recipe. It was wonderful! The recipe calls for a pre-ferment, which is a cousin to sourdough. This particular pre-ferment is a biga (pronounced bee-ga). As you can see from the picture, it was dry, unlike a sourdough [...]

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Carnival of Food Blogs

It’s Carnival time at Sourdough Recipe! I thought these colorful peppers would set a festive mood. Lord knows I need some bright colors with all this drab January rain. Here are a few of my favorite food sites…… Is there a better comfort food than homemade beef stew?  And winter weather demands comfort food. Check [...]

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Sourdough Recipe: Sourdough French

Sourdough French bread is one of my staples. As I’ve admitted elsewhere, I’m pretty much baking bread every Saturday morning. To mix it up a bit, I like to make French bread sometimes. Man (and woman) cannot live by sourdough bread alone!) I make more French bread in the winter — we can demolish a [...]

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Basic Sourdough Bread

I’m here to tell you: making bread is easy. I know that some of my friends just shake their heads and say “I could never do that!” But then I see them make an amazing pie crust and I think “I could never do that!” We all have mental blocks. So here’s a simple sourdough [...]

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Amish Friendship Bread Fail

When I started this blog, I purposefully included a category called “Fail.” I knew that it would happen. I’m that kind of cook. I swap out ingredients; every once in awhile I accidentally switch recipes in mid-stream. (Does that ever happen to anyone else? Would they admit it?) So, my Amish Friendship bread adventure. It’s [...]

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Sourdough Recipe: Sourdough Scones

Making Sourdough scones is one of my favorite ways to use up extra sourdough starter. I mean, if you’re doing it right, your starter spends its days growing and how can you keep up? This Sourdough scone recipe will help keep the starter in check. And it’s a great, easy and quick recipe. First, go [...]

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Wall Quotes Tips

Home decorating can be a lot of fun, and very rewarding at the same time. When thinking about decorating, people often first think about the color of their walls. The right paint color is very important, but once the color is picked out, the walls are pretty much done. Of course a painting can he [...]

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Sourdough Recipe: Sour Potato Bread

Who doesn’t love potatoes? Here’s a great way to use leftover mashed potatoes. Make sourdough bread with them! You will need a cup of the water that you cooked the potatoes in, but otherwise no planning needed! First, in a large bowl, add 1 cup warmed up mashed potatoes 1 cup warmed potato water 1 [...]

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