From the living culture in your jar to the loaf coming out of the oven: a practical reference for starter care, fermentation, baking and the moments when things go wrong.
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The Rescue chapter is organized around problems you can recognize. This sample begins with a new starter that is not bubbling on day four.
Each entry starts with an observable sign, so you can find the part that matches what is happening in your jar.
For a quiet new starter, the entry points to room temperature and explains how warmth, continued feeding and more time fit into the next step.
The same entry ends with a temperature range for building a new culture. The format repeats: cause, fix, prevent.
A sample of the troubleshooting format, alongside chapters on starter care, dough and baking.
Browse the contents, a hydration reference, dough handling, baking and a page from the troubleshooting chapter.
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Use the starter chapter when building, feeding or maintaining the culture in your jar.
Turn to the dough and bake chapters as you work through fermentation, shaping and the oven.
Use the Rescue chapter to compare a problem with its possible causes, fixes and prevention notes.
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For beginners who want to understand the process and home bakers who need a reference when a bake goes off course.
This is a technique and troubleshooting manual. The dedicated bread recipes are in Practical Recipes; the supplier directory is in the Sourcing Guide.
Medieval Way explores traditional skills through its video series and digital field manuals. The Bakery books bring the bread-making side of that work into a format you can keep beside you as you bake.
The three volumes have distinct jobs: recipes to follow, sourdough techniques to understand, and ingredients and tools to look for. The pages shown here come from the books themselves, so you can see the detail and decide which volume fits your next step.
Put the techniques to work with Practical Recipes, and use the Sourcing Guide to find the flour, grains and equipment for your next bake.
Twelve chapters of traditional bread recipes, from dark rye loaves to manchet and trencher bread. Ingredient weights, temperatures and step-by-step methods for your home kitchen.
Explore Practical Recipes →E-book · 79 pages · EnglishBuild and care for your starter, then follow the dough through fermentation, shaping and baking. A reference for understanding the process, with twenty-five common failures to look up.
Explore Sourdough Manual →E-book · 59 pages · English
Find the flour, grains, tools and specialty ingredients your recipes call for. Regional supplier listings and a checklist to help you choose where to buy.
Explore Sourcing Guide →E-book · 32 pages · EnglishAll three for $47.00
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It focuses on sourdough technique: the starter, dough, fermentation, baking and troubleshooting. Practical Recipes is the separate recipe volume.
Yes. The starter chapter covers building a culture as well as feeding, storing and reviving it.
The Rescue chapter brings together twenty-five failures by stage, so you can look up a problem where it happens in the process.
This is an e-book, not a printed book. Your download is delivered after purchase. You can read it on a phone, tablet or computer.
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Sourdough Manual · 59-page English e-book
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