Easy Scrumptious Sourdough Brownies

These sourdough brownies are quick, easy and taste super! They use only fermented sourdough starter so the flour in them is completely fermented. When you need a quick dessert and brownies sounds just right, and when do they ever sound wrong? then whip these up and serve them warm with some whipped cream, your favorite icing or plain, they’re that good! The sourdough starter is best to use when the gluten has broken down a bit like after 10 -12 hours after feeding at room temperature.  Continue reading

Time and Temperature Experiments with Modified Gluten Bread

Hello everyone! I’ve been experimenting with time and temperatures from the Modified Bread formula from my course “Extreme Fermentation.” What’s really great about this bread is that you can do endless experiments to find out what the bread will do, especially since the batch is large. Continue reading

Quest for Sourdough Workshop – Pt 1- Library

What a wonderful two days spent in St. Vith Belgium at the Puratos Center for Bread Flavour! A year ago Karl De Smedt asked me if I would like to visit the sourdough library in Belgium. I answered that I would love to visit someday. His reply was intriguing, “Well, we’ll have to see if we can make that happen.”

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Some Interesting Baking Site Links

I don’t know about you, but here in the northwest, we went from some unusually hot (for us) weather to cool and rainy. It feels like summer is gone and fall has made it’s claim. I’m okay with that, although I love summer here.

I want to let you in on some great news. Continue reading

Ideas for Summer Breads

Breads for Summer

Are you feeling it’s too hot to bake bread for summer? Don’t give up! There’s lots of ways to bake bread in summer. Flat breads are fun to bake and you only need a hot skillet, griddle or even a barbeque!
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Buried Bread – A Sourdough Experiment

Many years ago, when I was working with and experimenting with Desem, I would bury the Desem dough ball in the bag of flour and then later dig it out and see that it had cracked open with the fermentation going on inside. I remember thinking about how nice the skin on the dough ball was. When it was buried in the flour,Continue reading

Scoring a Sunflower Loaf

Hi everyone! We are having a challenge in our group on Facebook called, “Perfect Sourdough.” The challenge is to score a loaf to look like a sunflower, some 3d scoring fun. So I made up a variation of the Alaska Sourdough bread and had a super lot of fun scoring the loaves. Here is how I did it:Continue reading

Motherdough Bread

The following video series is an excerpt from my online baking course: “Sourdough Bread Baking Experiments.“

Motherdough Bread is a sourdough bread not just made from motherdough, but ALL motherdough. See how I made it here:Continue reading

Sourdough Bread Baking Experiments – Course Launch Today!

NEW course Launch!

Join my new sourdough baking course here: Sourdough Bread Baking Experiments

Today is launch day for my new course, “Sourdough Bread Baking Experiments.” I had a lot of fun making this course but it took me a long time to get it finished. Thank you for being so patient!

In this course, I boiled bread, worked with low inoculation, double hydrations, motherdough, overnight ferments, super high hydration (Cristal Bread) and other fun experimental methods. I also played around with some heritage grains, Spelt and Teff. There is even a failed experiment with double hydration!Continue reading

Countdown to NEW Sourdough Baking Course Launch!

I wanted to launch my new online course, “Sourdough Bread Baking Experiments,” this coming weekend, the last weekend of June. However, I am flying to the “Udemy Live,” convention where I have been asked to be a speaker. So instead I will shorten the launchContinue reading