Sourdough – My fourth attempt

“I do not recommend baking bread, it can become a dangerous passion.” – Isabel Allende   In my case, and when it comes to sourdough it has become an obsession. My fourth attempt went much better, I managed to get a good starter and my sponge rose in a couple of hours. The final result [...]

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Sourdough – My third attempt

  Another week, another failed attempt to bake sourdough. I begin to wonder if it is the flour or the water, the weather, the light… I’m sure with amount of flour I’ve wasted so far I could almost open a bakery. But as I posted before, I am determined to succeed. After seven days my [...]

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Sourdough – my second attempt

     I’m stubborn, more than I like to admit, I prefer the word determined, I am determined to bake sourdough bread. A week ago I started growing another starter. This time I used a different recipe from a Swedish cookbook. It asked for rye flour instead, I really hoped this time it would work, it [...]

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Sourdough – my first attempt 7 months ago

“What’s fashionable nowadays is to bake bread without yeast. Of course I won’t let myself get behind in my kitchen! Forget all about No-Knead Bread – New York Times, the idea of effortless baking wasn’t meant to last. What you want now is to start preparing jars with bubbling suspicious dough inside that eventually will [...]

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