Restoring Dried Starter
If you’re trying to restore your starter from a backup, or someone gave you some of their dried starter, here’s the steps to restore it and make it your own. First of all, weigh it. You need to know how much dried starter you’ve got. For the sake of...
Discard French Bread
If you make sourdough, sooner or later your starter will be out of control and you’ll be looking for things to do with it. I found a French Bread recipe and decided to see if I could incorporate a starter. Photos coming soon....
Spicy Fennel Bread
A version of this on another website was way too wet — one problem of measuring by volume, not by weight, and me using weight....
Challah
Never did this before but had some fun doing it. Tried a couple of recipes and tweaked it a bit to get to this. The original dough was way too wet to work with and not at all like was described....
Buying A Mixer
A fair number of people have told me they’d love to bake more but they don’t have a stand mixer and can’t afford one. First of all, a mixer is a convenience. Okay, if you want to make something very wet like ciabatta or brioche, I’d say it’s a...