Baking Sourdough Bread: Dozens of Recipes for Artisan Loaves, Crackers, and Sweet Breads

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Sourdough is magic. It healthy, it tasty, and it alive. But that doesn mean you have to be a magician to craft beautiful, tasty loaves from it. Baking sourdough bread is an art for everyone. Baking Sourdough Bread is the cookbook and guide into the delicious, healthy world of sourdough.Baking with sourdough isn difficult; the biggest challenge is patience! But take it easy, and your taste buds will be rewarded with a crispy crust and rich, full flavor. Of course, it doesn hurt to know a few tricks when mastering the art, and this book offers plenty. Learn to make a sourdough starter, and keep the leaven active with regular feeding. Try different flours and unique ingredients; did you know you can make delectable bread with apples and raisins, for example?The book contains recipes for classics like levain and Old English wheat-and-sourdough, unique twists like carrot bread and hazelnut, and sweet breads such as the German gugelhupf, among many others. But it not just the recipes that make the book a treat. It the creativity it cultivates. The book is a starter and not just for sourdough.

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