The Best Sourdough Recipes | Sourdough Starter

A New Scale for a New Sourdough Starter

I’ve been enjoying the joys of artisan bread making and neglecting my beloved sourdough. Oh sure I’ve made some sourdough bread. Or scones, or pancakes. Anything to use up that sour, right? I remember when I first got the artisan bread book, I noticed the whole section on sourdough. I filed that away, like when [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]