Full Description
Best-selling cookbook New World Sourdough offers an inviting, nontraditional approach to baking delicious, inventive sourdough breads at home.
Learn how to make a sourdough starter, basic breads, as well as other innovative baked goods from start to finish with Bryan Ford, Instagram star (@artisanbryan) and host of The Artisan's Kitchen on Chip and Joanna Gaines' Magnolia Network. With less emphasis on perfecting crumb structure or obsessive temperature monitoring, Bryan focuses on the tips and techniques he's developed in his own practice, inspired by his Honduran roots and New Orleans upbringing, to ensure your success and a good return on your time and effort.
Bryan's recipes include step-by-step instructions and photographs of all of the mixing, shaping, and baking techniques you'll need to know, with special attention paid to developing flavor as well as your own instincts. New World Sourdough offers practical, accessible techniques and enticing, creative recipes you'll want to return to again and again, like:
Pan de Coco
Ciabatta
Pretzel Buns
Challah
Focaccia
Pizza dough
Cuban Muffins
Pita Bread
Flour Tortillas
Queen Cake
Straightforward and unintimidating, New World Sourdough will get you started with your starter and then inspire you to keep experimenting and expanding your repertoire.
Contents
Introduction
Part I Sourdough Techniques
Ch. 1 | Tools, Ingredients, and Techniques
• Tools
• Ingredients
• Techniques
— Making and Maintaining Your Sourdough Starter
— Building and Maintaining a Levain
— Mixing Dough
— Shaping Dough
— Proofing Dough
— Baking Bread
PART II Recipes
Ch. 2 | Rustic Breads
• Pan Rustico (Country Bread)
• Pan Integral (Whole-Wheat Bread)
• Olive Oil and Sea Salt Tin Loaf
• Coco Rugbrød
• Toasty Seed Sour
• Pan Gallego (Bread of Galicia)
• Birote
• Pan de Agua (Water Bread)
• Plantain Sourdough
• Rustic Olive and Parmesan Bread
• Ciabatta
• English Muffins
• Pretzel Buns
• New Orleans French Bread
• Masa Pizza Crujiente (Crispy Pizza Dough)
• Masa Pizza Integral (Whole-Grain Pizza Dough)
• Masa Focaccia
• Whole-Grain Pita Bread
• Tortillas de Harina (Flour Tortillas)
Ch. 3 | Enriched Sourdough Breads
• Choco Pan de Coco
• Honey Oat Tin Loaf
• Bananas Foster Sourdough
• Cinny Raisin Bagels
• Pecan Praline Monkey Bread
• Semitas de Yema
• Challah
• Whole-Grain Brioche Buns
• Cuban Muffins
• Jamaican Hard Dough
• Mallorcas
• Muffaletta Rolls
• Pão de Queijo (Cheese Bread)
• Pan de Café (Coffee Bread)
• Queen Cake
• Whole-Grain Pineapple Cream Beignets
Resources
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
