Wholewheat, Rye and Oat Bread

After the excesses of the last weeks (cake! bun! more cake!) I thought I’d give you a break and preach sourdough instead. Especially as it is Real Bread Week, an annual celebration of real bread run by the charity Sustain. Their aim is to get people to take their bread more seriously, either by becoming…

Sourdough Bagels – The Final Frontier

Now, once you have mastered the art of the bagel, you might want to give these sourdough bagels a try. If you liked the homemade bagels the first time round, you will find these even more chewy and delicious. The sourdough allows you to use a variety of flours, and I am following James Morton‘s…

German ‘Black Bread’ – Schwarzbrot

As I have been baking bread for a few years now, the theme for this  Bread Baking Day,’ancient’, really appealed to me: as a kid at my friend’s house, we helped her granny to prepare the breads for the weekly ‘baking day’, when the communal oven was heated up and the families of the village were…

Sourdough Bread

Once you have a sourdough starter, you can think about making a loaf. In order to make your starter last you will need to double it, which is called the levain and takes roughly 8 hours. Then you put half of it away as a future starter and use the rest to make your bread. Levain (10 mins…