Rustic Country Bread - Baked in a Dutch oven. I was thinking about one of the main objectives of TFL (encourage, support and assist new bakers) and with that in mind I decided to attempt a "tried and true" recipe that would perhaps be appealing to bakers just getting into artisan baking.
I set out to make a bread that would be easy and as fail-safe as possible for entry-level bakers to produce. I chose the Rustic Country Bread recipe from King Arthur flour. The recipe is available on line at their website. I thought it would be a good recipe to introduce bakers who haven’t used or had experience with using a pre-ferment method (poolish) when making an “artisan” bread and because of its simplicity it’s a good one for new bakers to try. Bread Making Videos — Bread Baking Instructional Videos and Baking Supplies. Northwest Sourdough. Northwest Sourdough. Wild Yeast. Grandmother Bread. Deliciously simple and simply delicious, Grandmother Bread is a daily staple in our farmhouse.
This is a heritage recipe, tested by time and the hands of mothers and grandmothers for over a hundred years. This secret family recipe is different from many standard white bread recipes in that it contains no milk, egg, or oil, and its very simplicity produces a bread of light but sturdy texture that yields loaves for perfectly sliced sandwich bread (the best sandwich bread you’ll ever taste! Also makes excellent french toast!) , plus the same dough can be used to create dinner rolls, cinnamon-swirl loaves, sweet rolls, crispies, and apple-streudel ladder loaf. Many recipe variations for Grandmother Bread are included on this site. Read all about the family history behind this bread recipe here. Never baked homemade bread before? Printer-FriendlyHow to make Grandmother Bread: Two-loaf standard recipe In a large bowl, combine water, yeast, sugar, and salt.
One-loaf standard recipe Dinner rolls. Science of Bread: Basic Sourdough Starter Recipe. In addition to flour, water, and yeast, your starter also contains bacteria.
When these bacteria feed on the sugars in flour, they produce acidic by-products. This is what gives sourdough its sour taste. Actually, all doughs contain at least some bacteria. So why aren’t all breads sour? In doughs made with bakers’ yeast (the kind you buy in the store), the yeast outnumber the bacteria. Sourdoughs and other raised breads also differ from one another because of the eating habits of the yeasts that make them rise. TMF: baking bread / Living Below Your Means. How to Make Sourdough Starter, and Making Sourdough Grandmother Bread. Two loaves of whole wheat sourdough Italian herb & garlic bread cooling in my kitchen.
Who doesn’t love sourdough bread? You can make it at home easily–with Grandmother Bread. Most of us think of San Francisco-style sourdough when we hear the words sourdough bread, but sourdough is a type of riser, not a type of bread, which adds a distinctively tangy flavor to the end product. Any bread recipe can be converted to sourdough. More about that later…. If you’re like me and you have cats who will bother your container or you aren’t feeling frisky enough to lasso yourself some yeast from the wild, you can take a packet (or a tablespoon) of regular everyday “pre-captured” yeast from the store and go from there. Printer-FriendlyHow to make Sourdough Starter: 1 tablespoon (1 packet) yeast (not rapid-rise) 1/2 cup warm water 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/2 more cups warm water 1 tablespoon sugar or honey In a large (non-metal) bowl, dissolve yeast in the 1/2 cup of water.
This is a 2-quart jar. Fast Track to Sourdough - Getting A Good Starter. A good starter is the heart of the sourdough experience.
Starting and maintaining a starter isn't hard, people have been doing it for between 6,000 and 10,000 years. You can do it too. There are no mysteries here. As my son's martial arts teacher used to remind him before a match, "Relax, it's just a fight. Remember to breathe! " Since you are here, reading these pages, I suspect you've either never made sourdough before, or that you've not been successful with it.