Everything you need to make the switch from buying highly processed store-bought bread to homemade, delicious sourdough.
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All my family's favorite recipes! We make these all the time.
This recipe takes minimal effort, freezes great, and makes having fresh sourdough on-hand for a busy family actually doable.
Easy Sourdough Sandwich Bread
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These tortillas make the best quesadillas with so much added flavor from the sourdough. Easy to make a double or triple batch and freeze.
Sourdough Flour Tortillas (made with discard or not)
Takes some work but is well worth the effort. More filling than typical recipes.
Soft Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls
Focaccia is your sourdough fail safe. If you screw everything else up, you can still turn your over proofed loaves into something delicious. Consider sweet toppings instead of savory for an easy breakfast or coffee bread.
Simple Sourdough Focaccia Bread Recipe
When getting started, we were pretty overwhelmed with baking with something we had to “feed”. This article helped teach us what to do!
Feeding Sourdough Starter: My Best Tips & Tricks
Great recipe that can be customized with whatever toppings or add ins you like. At our house we love adding chopped pecans and sliced or grilled bananas.
Sourdough Waffles (or Pancakes)
Busy and can't quite eat all your bananas before they get too ripe? Freeze them and keep for whenever you want delicious sourdough banana bread
Ultimate Sourdough Banana Bread
When we make these we do a double batch and freeze for easy weekday breakfasts
Sourdough English Muffins - Easy Overnight Recipe!
Deliciously flavorful biscuits using a lot of discard. We made these and paired them with a southern sausage gravy and have eaten them with homemade satsuma orange marmalade. The sourdough adds depth and complexity to an already tasty breakfast. Cook...
Sourdough Discard Biscuits Recipe
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What you need to bake the above sourdough recipes and nothing extra
A set of glass mixing bowls with lids in a variety of sizes will be all you need for mixing and proofing.
Pyrex Mixing Bowls
A bench scraper will help you shape even the stickiest dough into a perfect, manageable loaf
Kitchen Bench Scraper
Parchment paper to line your loaf pan, or to keep your rolled out tortillas from sticking to each other while waiting to be transferred to a hot skillet
Reynolds Kitchens Non-stick Parchment Paper - 50 Sq Ft
8.5x4 loaf pan for the perfect sandwich bread
8.5x4 loaf pan
Cast iron skillet for added nutrition and to cook your tortillas
Cast Iron : Skillets & Fry Pans
spring form pan for easy cinnamon rolls
Springform Pan
Digital kitchen scale for accurate measuring by weight for consistent baking
Digital Kitchen Scale
Two cup glass measuring cup for liquid ingredients
Pyrex Measuring Cups
Bread knife for making clean slices from your fresh loaf
Bread Knife
The best way for storing your starter and discard
Wide Mouth Pint Mason Jar
Rubber band for your starter jar to keep up with how “active” it is and when it's ready to bake!
Rubber Bands
Cooling racks so your breads don't get soggy as they cool
Cooling Racks
Ingredients
All purpose flour for your baking needs
All Purpose Flour : Flours | Meals
Send off for free established sourdough starter from Carl Griffith's 1847 Sourdough
Carl Griffith's 1847 Oregon Trail Sourdough Starter
Bread flour instead of all purpose can make your dough softer and taller
Bread Flour
each recipe calls for a small amount of sugar (except for the cinnamon rolls)
Granulated Sugar
Each recipe calls for a little bit of salt for the magic of sourdough bread baking, have also learned from experience it tremendously impacts the flavor. Sea salt dissolves more readily in recipes.
Fine Sea Salt
For most recipes we substitute about 25% of white flour for whole wheat. More than 25% can alter the moisture/hydration content of the recipe and need more adjustments.
Whole Wheat Flour
Unsalted Butter
Unsalted Butter
This cinnamon will get the job done well
Ground Cinnamon - 4.1oz - Good & Gather
Distilled water if your tap water is chlorinated. Chlorine will kill your starter. Some recommendations say to leave tap water out for 24 hours to let the chlorine evaporate before adding to your starter, however some water systems have begun to add ...
Distilled Water - 128 Fl Oz (1gal) - Good & Gather
Our favorite to throw into waffle or pancake batter!
Chopped Pecans
If fresh are out of season, frozen blueberries are great to add in some extra antioxidants to go with the prebiotics of sourdough
Frozen Blueberries - 48oz - Good & Gather - Target
We always have bananas for topping our pancakes or waffles, or for throwing into some great sourdough banana bread
Bananas : Fresh Fruit
Recently our local grocery store was out of light brown sugar. Turns out you can make your own by mixing white sugar and molasses
Great Value Light Brown Sugar, 32 oz
Don't compromise on your vanilla extract!
Vanilla Extract in Baking(920)
Some sourdough recipes you see will call for baking soda or baking powder- these act as an extra leavening agent and are most common with recipes that call for “sourdough discard” rather than “sourdough starter”
Great Value Baking Soda, 16 oz
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This mixer will make quick work of mixing and kneading, but we have enjoyed our sourdough journey even without the high tech tools. For some recipes the stand mixer can cut your kneading time down from 30 minutes to about 5.
