My Sourdough Experiment

Instead of a boule baked in a dutch oven, I wanted a recipe that used starter and not yeast and could be baked in loaf pans. (A lot of the ones I’ve seen for loaf pans use discard starter and added yeast.) This is the result after fooling around...

Using Weight, Not Volume

I see people confused when a recipe lists ingredients by weight (e.g. 120 g of all purpose flour) instead of volume (e.g. 1 cup of all purpose flour). Accuracy Weight is more accurate. 120 grams of flour will weigh 120 grams whether you pack it down or sift it....

Legado

I’d like to tell you about something I found lately that’s just awesome. First of all, it’s local(ish) to me: A Sacramento distillery. I bought it because it’s a local brand and thought I should support local distillers. We have lots of breweries and wineries around but I’m not...

Discard Sandwich Sourdough

Rather than using your starter as a yeast, adds yeast and uses “non active” starter mainly for flavor. If you want to use active starter, eliminate the yeast and probably increase the initial rising time to 8+ hours and 1-2 hours for the after formed rising time. Photos...

Sourdough Pretzels 2

Originally found a variant of this on King Arthur’s site but could do without the commentary, ads, cookies, etc....