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Local Flours Sours: Peace Country Rye (Part Two)
If you read my weekend article about the Peace Country Rye flour blend that set the stage for my sourdough effort, you may recall how much I was anticipating baking a great-tasting rye bread from my sourdough process. By Sunday evening I had two hot loaves, fresh from the oven. Then one of these sourdough
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Local Flours Sours: Peace Country Rye (Part One)
All this experimenting with food is getting expensive. I was at the grocery store again this morning buying some varieties of vegetables to grill over the fire this evening, and a big hunk of meat to slice up for a batch of beef jerky, so of course I stumbled by the baking aisle and found
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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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Local Flours Sours: Stoneground Whole Wheat (Part One)
My sourdough starter turned two years old a few weeks ago. I didn’t make much fanfare about it, but it has given me cause to think more about my baking lately. Fine-tuning a recipe and process that works consistently for me has been a sourdough journey that has spanned nearly half a decade now, including
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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