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Sourdough But Not Bread
It’s been a long twenty-one months of pandemic craziness, but I’ve kept myself a little more sane by baking a lot of sourdough bread. A few loaves per week. A regular diet of sourdough toast for breakfast. A healthy source of bread for the family. But in all that time I haven’t explored much further
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Friday Yeast Fail
I banked my evening post on some cast iron skillet focaccia bread. The plan was to bake a zesty round of generously seasoned pan bread, a twelve inch disc of leavened goodness, baked to perfection in the oven and sliced up for some Friday night snacking. I followed a simple recipe: some flour, yeast, olive
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Heat Proofed
While the baker in me is disappointed by the negative impact the heat has had on my sourdough, the science nerd side of my brain has been giddy at watching how this blast of summer temperatures spun the dial on one of the variables in the delicate process. My fellow Western-North-Americans know this all too
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Local Flours Sours: Stoneground Whole Wheat (Part Two)
On the weekend I was delighted to have the chance to stretch my shopping muscles and visit the local grocery store, spending some time more carefully peruse the aisles for interesting ingredients. The result was a few small bags of flour that promised to step me out of my sourdough comfort zone and deeper into
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Gear: Cast Iron Loaf Pans
The first cast iron loaf pan I bought was an experiment. I didn’t know that I’d use it much, but I’d read online that I might be able to get crispier crusts on my banana bread with a pan that had better heat retention than the aluminum ones I’d been using. The second cast iron