I have always liked bread.
When I was a child, I was one of those 'fussy eater' types. As a result, my parents had a terrible time trying to get nutrition into me. In the end, I settled into a life of peanut butter and marmite darned with margarine and mass produced white bread. This staple has been a major part of my diet for over 30 years, yet in that time I never discovered what I now consider to be 'good breads. Even spending 7 years in Munich, I refused to try the local breads and insisted on eating the crappy white sliced loaves on offer there.
Finally in my late 30s I have started discovering nice breads. In particular I have discovered a nice sanfrancisco sourdough bread that I have fallen in love with.
That said,.attempting bread baking is not all that new to me; while in Munich I tried a bread once. It was not the worst loaf I have made, burnt *was* inedible. It was a plain white loaf and it was super bland and had no structure. I also did not follow a decent recipe.
Next up was a few years ago, another non recipe bread. I forget what it was like but it was a fail.
Throughout my short bread journey so far I knew one thing; I did not want to just make packet bread in a bread machine and I did not want to just follow a recipe. I wanted to LEARN how to bake bread. It is such a simple thing, yet baking a nice loaf seems so far out of reach to me. I guess I want to be an artisan?
To this end, I stumbled on the subject of sourdough and the starters. This subject interested me as being able to make something from nothing(I.e. no preprepared yeast product) fascinates me.
It was with this in mind and my almost empty history of bread making that has set me along the path of bread discovery. I want to learn how to bake yummy soft flavorful healthy loaves: )
When I was a child, I was one of those 'fussy eater' types. As a result, my parents had a terrible time trying to get nutrition into me. In the end, I settled into a life of peanut butter and marmite darned with margarine and mass produced white bread. This staple has been a major part of my diet for over 30 years, yet in that time I never discovered what I now consider to be 'good breads. Even spending 7 years in Munich, I refused to try the local breads and insisted on eating the crappy white sliced loaves on offer there.
Finally in my late 30s I have started discovering nice breads. In particular I have discovered a nice sanfrancisco sourdough bread that I have fallen in love with.
That said,.attempting bread baking is not all that new to me; while in Munich I tried a bread once. It was not the worst loaf I have made, burnt *was* inedible. It was a plain white loaf and it was super bland and had no structure. I also did not follow a decent recipe.
Next up was a few years ago, another non recipe bread. I forget what it was like but it was a fail.
Throughout my short bread journey so far I knew one thing; I did not want to just make packet bread in a bread machine and I did not want to just follow a recipe. I wanted to LEARN how to bake bread. It is such a simple thing, yet baking a nice loaf seems so far out of reach to me. I guess I want to be an artisan?
To this end, I stumbled on the subject of sourdough and the starters. This subject interested me as being able to make something from nothing(I.e. no preprepared yeast product) fascinates me.
It was with this in mind and my almost empty history of bread making that has set me along the path of bread discovery. I want to learn how to bake yummy soft flavorful healthy loaves: )
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