SourDom's blog

Welcome to SourDom's beginners blog, the tutorials are:

How to make your own starter.
How to use short kneads to handle moist doughs and bake a loaf with a yeast-based preferment.
The subtleties of proving a loaf using a ‘biga’.
How to shape a loaf using a hybrid recipe.
The final crucial steps and putting it all together to bake a 100% sourdough loaf.

Setting off…

by SourDom { 2006 June 10 }

“The road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began Now far ahead the road has gone And I must follow if I can Pursuing it with weary feet Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet And whither then I cannot say” JRR Tolkien ‘The Lord of the Rings’ This is a first feeble attempt at a blog, so...

Beginners' blog - kneading and mixing

by SourDom { 2006 June 1 }

What you will needRead more...

Fan Ovens

by SourDom { 2006 April 26 }

I haven’t posted in this blog for an eternity - too busy working. But I spent ten minutes this evening trying to track down something that I had written in a forum about getting around problems with fan ovens. I finally found it, and have pasted it below, (so I can find it again). I now almost exclusively use the oven to max trick, ...

Recipes

by SourDom { 2006 April 23 }

Recipes: Pane Francese (1) Starter: 1 teaspoon starter 90g white flour 90g water Dough 180g starter (36%) 320g water (64%) 450g white bakers flour (90%) 50g wholemeal flour (10%) 10g salt (2%) Pane Francese (2) - sponge Sponge 1 teaspoon dried yeast 90g white flour (100%) 90g water (100%) Dough 180g sponge (36%)Read more...