Course Highlights
  • Bake a loaf of real sourdough bread and amaze your family and friends.
  • Know what an autolyse is and why it is used in bread baking.
  • How to mix and fold dough a gentle method of developing gluten which does not entail kneading.
  • Have an easy method of baking with steam in your own home oven.
  • Know how to shape a boule (round loaf) and a batard (long oval loaf).
  • How to handle sticky, wet dough.
  • Why a long cool ferment is beneficial as a baking technique.
  • See how to clean, store and use a banneton.
  • What to use if you don't have a banneton and what a banneton is used for.
  • How to make your own sourdough starter, step by step.
  • What hydration means in baking terms.
  • You will see how to bake, slice and eat a freshly baked slice of bread ( you will need help with this skill) ;)
  • Understand baker's lingo, learn some bread history, understand how to measure ingredients.
Curriculum

1 Topic
Hello and Welcome to Sourdough Bread Baking 101

2 Topics
Getting Started with Sourdough Baking
How to Make Your Own Sourdough Starter 29 page E-Book

4 Topics
The Stages of Making Sourdough Bread
A Word About Measuring
List of Baking Equipment You Might Need
Some Common Ingredients Used for Sourdough Bread Baking

15 Topics
Before You Start Baking Your Bread- A Timeline
Feed Your Sourdough Starter
First Sourdough Bread Loaf Formula
Mix the Dough for the First Loaf
Feed Your Sourdough Starter After Mixing Dough.
Bulk Fermentation and Folding the Dough
Folding the Dough 2nd Time.
Fold the Dough 3rd Time.
Shaping Your First Loaf of Sourdough Bread
Make Your own Bread Lame (dough scoring blade)
Final Proof and Scoring Your Bread Dough.
When is My Bread Dough Ready to Bake?
Baking Sourdough Bread With Steam
Bake Your First Loaf of Sourdough Bread!
The Finished Loaf of Sourdough Bread- Time to Slice!

11 Topics
Autolyse Dough - What is That?
Formula for Your "Second Loaf" of Sourdough Bread
Let's Mix Up the Dough for your Second Loaf!
Autolyse and Adding the Salt.
Folding during Bulk Fermentation after Autolyse
Shape a Batard
Overnight Retard and Final Proofing of the Dough.
Scoring Your Second Loaf of Sourdough Bread
Time to Bake Your Masterpiece!
The Finished Loaf - Ready to Slice and Savor
Clean and Store Your Banneton

3 Topics
Using a Bread Pan and Tea Towel instead of a Banneton
Getting the Sourdough Loaf Ready
The Finished Sourdough Loaf from the Bread Pan

4 Topics
A Short History of Sourdough
Baker's Glossary - Baking Lingo
Desired Dough Temperature for the Home Baker
Hydration and Dough - What Does it Mean?

2 Topics
Thank You and Goodbye
BONUS

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