Sourdough baking: how to get started
Getting started with sourdough.
On a Saturday in late August 2021 we had the pleasure of doing a presentation about sourdough making at the Hallockville Museum Farm Country Fair. We didn’t bring bread to sell, because we didn’t actually have any after fulfilling preorders and wholesale. Which meant that we could focus on meeting people, hand out slices of sample bread, watch people enjoy it, and give away jars of starter - a way of paying it forward since our starter was gifted to us by another bakery.
We talked about the history of sourdough, which I enjoyed researching so much. Fun facts: the Latin roots of the word companion means someone you will share your bread with: Com-pan-ion …Also sourdough making and beer brewing have gone hand in hand for centuries with people exchanging different ferments for their flavors across beer and bread making. And that the word spirits for alcohol came from attributing “spirits” to the magic behind fermentation). We walked people through the sourdough making process and shared a handout with the steps and the recipe Brett worked with first in 2015, which was Chad Roberson’s country bread.
To see the handout, kindly click below.