Sourdough Starter: Day 1

March 10, 2010

Using the recipe I found at The Fresh Loaf I started my starter this evening. Day 1 is pretty uneventful – mixing 1/3 cup of Rye Flour with 1/4 cup of water and letting it sit overnight on the counter covered in plastic wrap. My excitement at beginning this process was not quite shared with [...]

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Starting Starter: My Sourdough Adventures

March 9, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about taking this whole bread thing to the next level and starting my own starter. I was pretty confused as to what that was, but after doing some reading, I finally figured out it is a mixture you create that takes the place of yeast (find the full wikipedia [...]

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Bread Making Resources: Freshloaf.com

March 9, 2010

I came across www.thefreshloaf.com over the weekend as a I was searching for a bread recipe and was blown away. This site has a great bread making community, a ton of instructional information, recipes, tips, etc. I spent about 30 minutes tooling around and was impressed and excited. I have a feeling this site will [...]

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The No Knead Bread Method

March 8, 2010

My new found passion for bread making started with the discovery of Jim Lahey’s book, My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method. Since then I have been doing a lot of reading and researching on other ways to make bread, but I have been also working my way through his book, making different recipes. The [...]

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The Bread Guys Are Here!!

March 5, 2010

This is our first post to the Bread Guys blog, and we’re pretty excited about it! We’re not proffesional bakers or chef’s, but just a couple of guys who like making bread and are in the beginning phases of learning the in’s and out’s. The spark really started when Brendan discovered Jim Lahey, from Sullivan [...]

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