A dark, dense, moreish loaf that will sit so stoically supporting your avocado and eggs or cream cheese, dill and luscious cured salmon. Ingredients 375g leaven (recently fed sourdough starter)375g boiling water 500g organic dark rye flour12g fine salt30g black treacle Method This recipe starts with your sourdough starter, which you can make using this … Continue reading Scalded Rye Sourdough
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Sourdough Is For Life, Not Just For Lockdown
Like puppies at Christmas, sourdough starter deserves enduring love and care - the starter you made, bought or were gifted during the coronavirus lockdown will actually live on, in perpetuum. I fear that a significant number of those who developed a newfound love of home baking during the unprecedented Covid-19 restrictions will all too quickly … Continue reading Sourdough Is For Life, Not Just For Lockdown
Lockdown Sourdough
The staff of life. Bread connects every human, transcending continents, countries, creeds and clans. The COVID-19 outbreak appears to have encouraged a resurgence in home baking (and a run on flour amongst other basic staples). There are many different types of bread, but I'm obsessed with classic sourdough bread - the old way of baking using a … Continue reading Lockdown Sourdough
Pangrattato
Everyone should have homemade pangrattato in their store cupboard. It ticks so many culinary boxes: easy to makeeasy to storevirtually freeabsolutely deliciousimproves a plethora of dishesreduces food wasteyou can't buy it in the shops It's remarkably satisfying, so why wouldn't you!?! What is it? A literal translation from Italian would be 'grated bread' - basically, … Continue reading Pangrattato
Sourdough 2.0
Sourdough is all about time. As time has passed since my last post about sourdough, I've patiently and diligently continued on my quest to make fantastic sourdough. I'll reiterate that regular practice, keen observation and confident intuition are what truly makes great bread. Däve is all grown up, well, fourteen months old at the time … Continue reading Sourdough 2.0
Food Fit For Felix 