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DIY Sourdough John Moody

DIY Sourdough By John Moody

DIY Sourdough by John Moody


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DIY Sourdough is the essential beginner's guide to crafting simple whole grain sourdough starters, breads, snacks, and more that can be incorporated into your weekly routine. Packed with tips and tricks for consistent, nutritious, and delicious results.

DIY Sourdough Summary

DIY Sourdough: The Beginner's Guide to Crafting Starters, Bread, Snacks, and More by John Moody

Enjoy delicious, nutritious sourdough family favorites such as English muffins and cinnamon raisin bread right in the comfort of your own home. Hannah Crum, coauthor of The Big Book of Kombucha

Real life is busy enough without having social media-worthy sourdough on your to-do list. But if your goal is to make simple, nourishing, and delicious whole grain sourdough for your whole family, then DIY Sourdough is your one-stop beginners guide. Coverage includes:

  • Simple sourdough recipes for breads, snacks, and more
  • The secrets to consistent results
  • Tips and tricks for homemade sourdough, including flour buying, home milling, and sourdough starter
  • Homemade bread scheduling options, including split-day sourdough recipes for making sourdough an easy part of your weekly routine.

DIY Sourdough is your personal guide to getting started with sourdough. It gives you a helping hand to succeed and offers a simple time-saving approach to make nourishing and delicious sourdough that fits into a hectic lifestyle.

People have been fermenting grains, baking bread, and keeping sourdough starters alive for millennia using very simple, basic techniques. John and Jessica Moody bring back the simplicity by demonstrating in clear terms how a busy homesteading family, be they rural or urban, can bake a wide range of sourdough-based baked products with ease. To boot, DIY Sourdough will provide you with myriad recipes for feeding your family healthy, digestible baked products for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and in-between. Jereme Zimmerman, award-winning author of Brew Beer Like a Yeti

About John Moody

The Moody family has been making traditional foods, including with grains, for over a decade. John Moody is the founder of Whole Life Services and Whole Life Buying Club and the former executive director of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. John discovered more than a decade ago that his diet was literally killing him with duodenal ulcers, seasonal allergies, and other health problems, so the family began to transition to real local foods and local food distribution. Involved with farming, food, and homesteading, John is a well-known speaker at conferences, events, and media including Mother Earth News, Wise Traditions, and Hobby Farms/Chicken Magazine. The Moody family of two old-timers and five rambunctious kids farms and homesteads on 35 acres in Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
How We Got into Sourdough
Why Sourdough?
Why Whole Grains?
Why We Recommend You Stick with Organic Grains and Flours
What You Need for Sourdough
Flour Buying Tips and Tricks
Grind Your Own Grains, Not As Hard As You Think
Grain-to-Flour Conversions
Home Milling Tips
How Much to Mill at a Time
Fineness
Freshness
Why Spelt and Other Older Grains for Sourdough
Hey, Batter Batter! The Importance of Batter Consistency

1 Simple Sourdough Basics
A Simple Sourdough Schedule
Starters Take time
How to Create Your Own Sourdough Starter
Simple Step-by-Step Instructions for Whole Grain Sourdough Starter
Maintaining Your Sourdough Starter
Timing of Feedings and Finding Your Sourdough's Sweet Spot
The Not-So-Uncommon Failed Sourdough Starter
What to Do When You Need to Travel or Take a Few Days Off?
The Need for a Backup Starter
Waking Up Stored Starter
Buying Starters
Borrowing Starters

Common Problems that Cause Sourdough Consternation
Mold
House Too Hot, House Too Cold
Cross Contamination
Metal and Sourdough?
Too Sour
Not Enough Rise

2 Breakfast
English Muffins
Hell Hath No Pastry Like My Wife's Scones
Pancakes and Waffles
Pancakes
Zucchini Waffles
French Toast

3 Lunch
Breads
Irish Soda Bread/English Muffin Bread
Croutons
Crackers
Rolling Crackers
Scoring Crackers
Basic Crackers
Beyond Basic Crackers
Artisan Spelt Bread

4 Dinner
Biscuits
What's the Difference Between a Biscuit, Roll, Muffin, and So Many Other Baked Goods?
Rolls
Empanadas

5 Snacks and Special Treats
Muffins
Basic Muffins
Blueberry Muffins
Cast Iron Skillet Cinnamon Rolls
Cream Cheese Frosting
Cinnamon Raisin Bread
Banana Bread

6 Resources and Sundry Matters
Kitchen Equipment
Cast Iron
Glass
Stoneware
Measuring Equipment
Grain Mills
Online Resources
Traditional Cooking School
Cultures for Health
Homemade Food Junkie

About the Authors
A note About the Publisher

Additional information

NPB9780865719200
9780865719200
0865719209
DIY Sourdough: The Beginner's Guide to Crafting Starters, Bread, Snacks, and More by John Moody
New
Paperback
New Society Publishers
2020-05-26
104
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