It makes scaling a recipe or building a recipe very easy once you know the total weight of the flour, and also allows you to know the ‘hydration’ of your dough.

It covers EVERYTHING from chemistry to technique with tons of recipes that are scaled for home baker’s and professional kitchens. She knows what works and has tested every aspect of the process, from equipment, ingredients, hydration, fermentation time, temperature, recipes and methods.

A Sourdough starter is a living organism and doesntt always play by the rules which makes it fascinating.

Learn how the depth and timing of your cuts can affect the way your lines bake and burst, and never be disappointed by deflated dough again as Brittany’s calm, encouraging voice guides you through a huge variety of dazzling designs. I love the flavour of these types of flours but was unsure on how they worked, I have now had some delicious results using these recipes.

Then the company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer's market--and a whole new world opens up. Sourdough ] plunges through so much terrain: microbial nations, assimilation and tradition, embodied consciousness and the crisis of the tech industry, all without losing the light, sweet, ironic Sloanian voice familiar from Mr. It knows as much about the strange extremes of food as Penumbra did about the dark latitudes of the book community. Their plastic cladding was colored Dextrous blue, the contours friendly and capable with just the faintest suggestion of biceps — gentle swells marked with General Dexterity's logo, an affable lightning bolt.

She also includes troubleshooting sections on starter maintenance, fermentation and scheduling timetables. According to bakers percentages, that will be 100% flour (the amount of flour is always 100%), 67% water, 2% salt, and 0. Sourdough is a soup of skilfully balanced ingredients: there’s satire, a touch of fantasy, a pinch of SF, all bound up with a likeable narrator whose zest for life is infectious.No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.