Sourdough Baking

Bread baking books

Hi all, After a rather lengthy hiatus of not posting on the forum (but reading along occasionally, and baking all the while!) I...

Sheepherder Bread

I have a friend at work that keeps telling me about the Sheepherder bread that his dad use to make when he was a youngster. I had...

trouble with organic flour

Hi. Thanks for reading this, obviously the subject was prevocative enough! I just tried a couple of free-form sourdough loaves...

making it simple

I'm curious if there is a simple way to do sourdough breadmaking that still gives good results. The reason i ask is because...

Question on Peter Reinhart's "barm" vs. regular starter

Hi, I am newly registered to the forum, although I have been lurking and reading. I have been baking with sourdough for a long...

Sourdough: one of the most satisfying things you can make, discuss.

I did a bit of reading and had a couple of false starts but I managed to make my own sourdough starter from scratch - and then...

First Sourdough and big flop

Just finish baking my first sourdough bread Pane Francese. Got some nice flavour but flat and chewy more like doughy. I did...

New to Sourdough

Hello everyone I have been lurking on this site for a while and did follow sourdom starter now I am ready for baking my first...

Plastic Proofing Baskets

I bought a couple of plastic proofing baskets and I have problems with the dough sticking to the basket. I have tried flour, rye...

New York Pizza

Nothing like a sunday night pizza with a fine Black Chocolate stout to boot!