Monday, March 16

Crusty Sourdough

I tried a new Sourdough Starter and today was day 8, so it was time to make the bread. Now ALL the recipes I was seeing wanted you to bake it in a Dutch Oven or a Cloche, neither of which do I have (yet!)  So I was a bit nervous about this, but I just went for it anyway... here is the recipe I used.  But I split it into two small loafs, and basically halved the baking times.    I wanted them to fit into my Stoneware, as that was the closest thing I could come up with, and I put a shallow pan of water in the lower part of the oven & sprayed water in several times during the baking process.  Guess what?!  I got 2 pretty nice crusty loaves, and the texture turned out pretty good, nice & soft, with evenly spaced holes & the flavor is nice, not super strong, but a pleasant slightly sour tang...


1 comment:

Amy said...

Ooh, that looks lovely!

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Me? Well....I have a day job selling travel to beautiful far away lands, and I love to travel - my job sort of supports & feeds the 'travel monster' inside me. But my other inner monster is: food in all it's facets. I have a 13 yr old DS from a previous life, and married the lovely JoeBacon a three years ago! I finally became a home-owner at that point, we did a huge addition/re-model right away to make the house a bit bigger & I got a wonderful new kitchen out of the deal! I've gone thru Culinary School twice (mostly for fun) 'cuz I love to cook! And thru reading/doing the Maker's Diet 2 years ago, became aware of Sally Fallon, Weston Price, etc...and now after about 9 months of exploring their world, I'm trying to really make it all part of mine. I've had some things turn out great & others have been miserable failures, but I'm learning a LOT (mostly from my fellow NT Bloggers)!! Now I'm enjoying my yard, garden, sprouting, baking bread, brewing Kombucha, using raw milk, making Kefir & Yogurt & just trying to find small ways to make yummy food better for us.