Sourdough: Slow Down, Make Bread

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From Scratch: Sourdough features recipes and top tips on everything you need to know to make your own sourdough from scratch.

For homebakers, sourdough is the true test of every aspiring bread-maker. Fickle, delicate, every loaf is unique. And there are a LOT of pitfalls to be avoided. It's much more than simply a food: sourdough is a science. So who better thanDr James Morton, baking pedant and fermentation fanatic, toexplain the basicsfor both the uninitiated and more experienced bakers

Extracting from and updating his book Super Sourdough,James talks the home cook through everything fromstarters, flours and hydration, to kneading, shaping, rising, slashing and baking, explaining how to achieve the perfect crust and crumb. With more than40 sourdough recipesincludingbasic loaves and rolls, baguettes, bagels and buns, clearstep-by-step instructions, troubleshooting tipsand explanations of what works and why,From Scratch: Sourdoughis the accessible handbook that bakers everywhere have been waiting for.

Author Bio

James Morton is the author of five books includingBrilliant Bread, which won the Guild of Food Writers Cookbook of the Year award in 2014,How Baking Works(2015),Brew(2016) andShetland: Cooking on the Edge of the World(2018). In 2012 he reached the final of TVsGreat British Bake Off. He works as a doctor in Glasgow and owns a brewery in the city.