Don't panic: Sourdough baking seems complicated, but it actually just requires patience, flour, water, and salt. When I first got a sourdough starter, it was unclear if what I had acquired was a gift an...
The Sourdough Starter
Now that people have time at home, bread-making is taking off. Learn how to make your own starter and loaves.

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For many of us home bakers, making a good loaf of sourdough bread feels like striving for the World Cup or an Olympic gold medal. It’s the challenge …
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Of all the self-care hobbies to emerge during the time of coronavirus quarantine, one of the most popular seems to be ambitious baking projects. What better way to pass the time than to transform the reaches...
If you have gotten into the sourdough baking game, at some point you will begin to focus on recipes for the spent — or discarded — portion of the starter. For me, feeding the starter on a weekly schedule...
Now that I’ve been initiated into the cult of the sourdough starter, I have had to figure out what, exactly, to do with it. I’m too intimidated to go …
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