Kneading the Bread

In the eighth grade I started baking bread as a school project. I baked a different kind of bread every week for six weeks, took pictures of the bread and wrote a report. I've been baking ever since. This blog is a record of my bread baking from when my first grandson, now thirteen, was a little boy until now.

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Pain de Campagnard - Rustic, Countryman's Bread from Beth Hensperger

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So here's my third use of sourdough with the help of Beth Hensperger. I decided to try her rustic country bread. The recipe calls for wh...
Monday, April 27, 2020

Beth Hensperger's Pain de Seigle

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When I was little, sometimes my father would go to the grocery store where he always indulged his wishes. He would come home not only with w...

Beth Hensperger's Pain de Campagne

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Using my mother's sourdough starter paired with the deeply complex flavors generated in most of Beth Hensperger's recipes makes me v...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Popovers from Sourdough Starter

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Delicious concoctions can be made with sourdough starter, left in the container after you have made bread. These recipes use unfed starter. ...

A Sourdough Starter Story

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My mother ordered 100-year-old sourdough starter from San Francisco when I was 15. She shared it with me when I left home so I could cont...
Friday, January 10, 2020

A Lesson in High Hydration Sourdough Bread

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I love making bread with sourdough starter, using only the starter as a natural yeast/leaven for the bread. I bake out of lots of cookbooks ...
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