Discover just how easy sourdough bread baking can be with Elaine Boddy's best and easiest recipes yet! Elaine uses equipment and ingredients readily found in most home kitchens to make bread baking a simple and manageable part of daily life. And with the support of tins and trays, you can skip over the most challenging steps--shaping and scoring--to accomplish perfectly shaped bread every time! Explore the versatility of a muffin tin as you bake uniform bread rolls for sweet Apple and Cinnamon 'Roses, ' savory Stuffed Pizza Rolls and Falafel Spiced Sourdough Chickpea Bites. Elevate your sandwiches with soft or flavored loaves as you experiment with otherwise difficult-to-handle dough using the natural support structure of loaf tins. Use your cake tins to assist the high rise of beautiful crusty boules bursting with unbeatable flavor. With simple and straightforward strategies, plus plenty of same-day recipes, this book is the perfect every day bread baking companion for beginners and experimental bread enthusiasts.This book is packed full with 60 different recipes showing just how versatile sourdough is, how creative you can be with it, and how easily it can be made. You will find recipes made with my usual simplicity, taking my master recipe to new heights, as well as new versions of it, plus tips and guidance for your sourdough success.
My hope is that you will be excited and inspired to make lots of the recipes and have fun at the same time!
Whether you are a new or an existing sourdough baker, these recipes are for you, for making great sourdough every day, or any day.
One of the main aims of this book is to remove one of the key areas that bakers worry about: shaping the dough. The recipes are all designed to produce easy to handle doughs, simple shaping, if any, or to use baking tins to provide support.
Which leads me onto the other main aim of this book: to use pots and pans that you already own and can be found in most kitchens, showing new ways to use them and to get the most out of what’s in your kitchen cupboards.
I can’t wait for this book to arrive in lots of kitchens and to see everyone’s amazing bakes, the suspense of waiting for it to come out is killing me! I hope you like it xx
“It is such a pleasure to write about Elaine Boddy’s second cookbook, The Sourdough Whisperer… First of all, I love the title and find it perfect to describe her. In this cookbook, Elaine goes back to basics. You will work with easily accessible flour, and explore all possibilities for bread baking using your home-made starter. Once again, Elaine reaches her goal of simplifying all steps, refusing to follow the rigid path that most cookbooks insist on. Can you bake bread in different shapes? Can you use a starter that has been sitting for days and seems quite dormant? Can you adapt all timings to suit your schedule, no matter how busy and hectic it might be? Thanks to Elaine, the answer to all those questions is a very enthusiastic YES, and as you read her book and follow her recipes you will realize that the key is to keep it all simple. You won’t have to spend a lot of time calculating hydration levels, you won’t have to deal with sourdough discard, you won’t have to heat your oven for an hour before baking your bread. All the rigid rules are gone. Thanks to The Sourdough Whisperer, a much more relaxed and pleasant stroll through the bread baking path is waiting for you…”
Sally Newton, home baker and food blogger, bewitchingkitchen.com
“Elaine has a sourdough superpower… Her knowledge is seemingly inexhaustible and she is so generous in sharing that knowledge. Any book she writes on the subject of sourdough is one to fast-track on to your bookshelf.”
Karen Barnes, Editor, delicious. magazine
This packed, complete guide to making sourdough bread is about to be the next must-have on your kitchen shelf. Elaine Boddy spares no detail as she guides readers on how to make easy, no-knead artisan bread; from explaining what sourdough starter is to laying out the instructions for artisanal freeform loaves, she takes anyone who is interested in sourdough baking and guides them through the process. From novice to expert, all will find something in here they feel excited to make.
Elaine is known for making complicated recipes simple; she offers solutions for anything you might be overlooking in the sourdough-baking process, and teaches fool proof recipes anyone can achieve. Under her guidance, you’ll feel the confidence to try making exciting new savoury loaves like Whole Wheat and Spelt Loaf, Rye and Caraway Loaf, and even a Cheese and Chipotle Ketchup Loaf. Or dabble in something new with her Chocolate and Vanilla Swirl Loaf and Fruit Swirl Loaf. This is, after all, the holy grail of sourdough books. The tough part is going to be deciding which recipe to start with first!
