San Francisco Sourdough
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Whole wheat sourdough
Want to learn to bake sourdough bread? Come and take a sourdough baking course with us and learn how to start or perfect your sourdough bread baking! The UK edition of Home Made Sourdough will be published sometime this winter. Look for it on Amazon!
Baking bread with prisoners at The Clink
Over the years Virtuous Bread and the Bread Angels have been baking bread with prisoners. It all started about four years ago in The Clink restaurant in a prison in Highdown prison in Sutton, Surrey. We are still active there and Bread Angel Gaye Whitwam has taken over from me to teach sourdough baking to
Baking sourdough bread in a casserole dish
I frequently make no-knead, crusty artisan bread. In fact, it’s so popular I bake it at least once a week and, but for the lack of more (extraordinarily expensive) cast iron casserole dishes, I would bake more at a time. The other day, I was proofing two 100% wheat sourdough loaves in bannetons. It was taking
The Easy Entrepreneur Tip Two: It’s easy if you love it
Running your own business is never ever easy but it is easier if you love it. I will go one step further: you have to love it or you won’t do it. Running a business is one of the most difficult things you will ever do: 1. The time it takes out of your life
Why should I soak seeds and grains before I bake bread?
Soaking things in water before cooking and baking with them is an oddly important tradition for many people in many parts of the world. Certainly, in Germany, where my mother is from, you would never get seeds or grains in bread that had not been soaked first. It is not an automatic thing to do
Top tips on how to bake with rye flour
It’s fantastic that more and more people are becoming hip to rye bread. Rye is tasty, good for you, provides a welcome alternative to wheat bread, and compliments certain food (smoked meat and fish, strong cheese) really well. The great thing is that baking with rye is really easy. There are a few characteristics of
