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Hotel Room Baking - Sourdough Bread
Apr. 4th, 2020 03:01 pmI've seen some folks deploring how complicated it is to make sourdough bread.
It's really not. At least, it's not once you have your starter, and even that is not as complex as some would have it. I've been making sourdough bread in my hotel room regularly the past couple weeks, and it's pretty easy. There's a few short bursts of Doing Things (mixing up the dough in the first place, shaping it) but you don't actually have to do that much to get yummy bread. I'd put it at maybe half an hour of work total.
I should mention before I go any further that I am very relaxed about recipes - there is no fussing about 'all measurements level' or tolerances here. There is also an implicit understanding that salt and spices are always 'to taste', so you'll adjust them as you see fit. (If you prefer a more careful, step by step and real measurements approach, I found The Clever Carrot's Beginnners Guide helpful when I first tried sourdough.)
( Regarding starter )
( Skip straight to the making bread part )
It's really not. At least, it's not once you have your starter, and even that is not as complex as some would have it. I've been making sourdough bread in my hotel room regularly the past couple weeks, and it's pretty easy. There's a few short bursts of Doing Things (mixing up the dough in the first place, shaping it) but you don't actually have to do that much to get yummy bread. I'd put it at maybe half an hour of work total.
I should mention before I go any further that I am very relaxed about recipes - there is no fussing about 'all measurements level' or tolerances here. There is also an implicit understanding that salt and spices are always 'to taste', so you'll adjust them as you see fit. (If you prefer a more careful, step by step and real measurements approach, I found The Clever Carrot's Beginnners Guide helpful when I first tried sourdough.)
( Regarding starter )
( Skip straight to the making bread part )
