Discover the art of at-home bread baking with a wide array of
delicious slow-rise bread recipes for bakers of all skill levels--plus
expert advice on mastering starters, kneading, proofing, and more.
Making bread is an ancient craft and a fulfilling experience, a skill
that is learnt by touch and feel. There is nothing more satisfying than
kneading, pulling, stretching and punching the dough, using a little
yeast and sugar to transform its lumpen beginnings, as if by alchemy,
into a loaf. But it's not all hard work. To get a truly wonderful bread,
you can use a starter to do the work for you and it does wonders for the
texture, flavors and aromas of the final bread.
The Real Bread Campaign has been running since 2008, encouraging people
to get baking and raising awareness of the additives that exist in most
shop-bought loaves. In Slow Dough: Real Bread, learn secrets from the
campaign's network of expert bakers to make a huge array of exciting
slow-rise breads at home. Whether you want to make a Caraway Seed Rye
Bread, a Fougasse Flatbread or an All-Butter Brioche, in these recipes
you'll learn how to make different starters for different breads, as
well as the fundamental processes (many of which you can just sit and
wait for): fermenting, kneading, first proof, last rising, and baking.
In a world of mass-production and redundant additives, bread being among
the worst offenders, this book, about real craftsmanship, is like a
breath of fresh air.
