Sourdough Bread Baking Cookbook
Sourdough Bread Baking Cookbook
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Master the Craft of Sourdough Baking from Scratch
Say goodbye to dense, flavorless loaves and unlock the secrets of artisan-style bread with Sourdough Bread Baking Cookbook. This essential guide teaches you how to master the timeless craft of sourdough—from creating your first starter from scratch to baking perfect, tangy, crusty loaves every time.
Built around a single foolproof method, this guide simplifies the sourdough process and shows you how to shape, score, proof, and bake like a pro. With a reliable base recipe, expert tips, clear tutorials, and creative variations, this book is your step-by-step companion for achieving bakery-quality sourdough at home. Whether you're a complete beginner or an aspiring artisan, this book makes sourdough baking approachable, rewarding, and fun.
Why This Cookbook?
Unlike overwhelming cookbooks packed with dozens of complicated recipes, this guide gives you one tried-and-true formula for success—and builds on it with creative variations, troubleshooting, and pro techniques. It's a step-by-step guide to baking with confidence—from fermentation science to flour selection. Focused, accessible, and practical, it empowers you to bake with clarity and creativity, no matter your experience level.
Who Is This Cookbook For?
✔️ Aspiring sourdough artisans ready to dive into the craft
✔️ Home bakers tired of inconsistent loaves
✔️ Health-conscious eaters looking for more wholesome bread options
✔️ Anyone who’s ever dreamed of pulling a crusty artisan loaf from their oven
✔️ Creatives who want to personalize their bread with flavors, flours, and shapes
Ingredients & Dietary Suitability
Vegetarian: 100% of recipes
Dairy-Free Options: 85% (with substitutions provided)
Nut-Free Options: 90% (nuts used only in optional mix-ins)
Refined Sugar-Free Options: 75%
Gluten-Free: No (for gluten-free sourdough, see our companion book here
Time-Saving or Skill-Building Promise
This guide is designed to simplify the sourdough learning curve. With detailed timelines, a minimal ingredient list, and one perfect recipe to master, you’ll save hours of guesswork and frustration. Master the skill of recognizing perfect fermentation timing and dough readiness through texture, feel, and rise.
Final Sourdough Baking is more than a cookbook—it’s your launchpad into a world of hands-on creativity, mindful baking, and truly satisfying bread.
- What's Inside
- What You'll Need
- Free Gifts
What's Inside
✔️21 core & bonus recipes, plus step-by-step shaping tutorials for artisan loaves including boules, batards, sandwich-style loaves, and baguettes
✔️ Everything you need to make and maintain your own sourdough starter
✔️ The core sourdough recipe that simplifies the whole process
✔️ Step-by-step fermentation timelines and shaping techniques
✔️ Creative variations like jalapeño-cheddar, focaccia, dried fruit, and milk bread
✔️ Bonus discard recipes: pancakes, muffins, crackers, banana bread, and more
✔️ Pro baking tips, oven tricks, and steam hacks for perfect crusts
What You’ll Learn
Chapters 1–3: Foundations & Fermentation
The science of sourdough, health benefits, gut microbiota, and how to set up your sourdough kitchen with the right tools and ingredients.
Chapters 4–6: The Starter & The Core Recipe
How to make your own starter in 8 days, when to feed it, how to store it, and how to bake your first sourdough loaf from start to finish.
Chapters 7–9: Troubleshooting & Creative Variations
What to do when your bread flattens, tastes off, or won’t rise. Explore savory mix-ins, alternative loaf shapes, and bakery-level focaccia.
Chapters 10–12: Mastery & Beyond
Use kefir in your starter, swap flours for new flavors, and turn discard into gold with a suite of satisfying bonus recipes.
Basic Kitchen Tools: Mixing bowls, measuring cups and spoons, digital kitchen scale, spatula or Danish whisk, Dutch oven (or covered oven-safe pot), stand mixer (optional)
Key Ingredients: Bread flour, all-purpose flour, sea salt or kosher salt, filtered or spring water, whole wheat flour (for starter), optional add-ins like cheese, herbs, nuts, seeds, dried fruit, or milk
Free Gifts Included
✔️ Printable fermentation & baking timeline
✔️ Ingredient substitution chart for different flours
✔️ Bonus chapter on discard recipes & sustainable baking
✔️ Access to the Bloom Healthy Sourdough Community
