Homemade Sourdough: Easy, At-Home Artisan Bread Making by Jane Mason
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group – Chartwell Books
Genre: Cooking, Food & Wine
Release Date: December 22, 2020

Homemade Sourdough by Jane Mason is a resource and recipe book discussing bread basics (& so much more).

The beginning of the book explains all the things you need to know about baking bread. There is so much information - I know I will be reaching back to this again and again.

The recipes are broken in the following chapters: Batter Bread, Everyday Rye, Everyday Wheat, Flavored Wheat, & Sweet Breads and Buns. I want to eat just about everything! Also, the recipes seem easy to follow and are well explained!

I will be getting this book for my husband for Christmas. During the first 'lockdown' in my state, my husband discovered a love for baking bread (I already knew I loved eating bread so this was a match made in heaven!) and I know he will appreciate these recipes!

I'm so grateful to Jane Mason, Quarto Publishing Group – Chartwell Books, and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this ARC ebook in exchange for my honest review.

As someone who is a beginner bread baker- this book has clear, fun instruction. There’s shared knowledge. The layout is simple and eye catching. The photography is perfect. Thank you to Netgalley & Quarto Publishing Group for the gifted PDF copy.

Good job Jane!

At first, I wasn't expecting much from this book, because the title is not telling you what's inside specifically. As I read further, after the preparation and all, here comes the recipes.. I am so excited to see sooooo many rye recipes in this book! There are many kinds of rye bread I never heard of. After this, I'm going to give it a try. 

Besides rye recipes, of course, there are some recipes with wheat or spelt, that part isn't so special for me. I saw the 181 page is double, 

The introduction's font is a bit difficult to read imo. 

Generally, this book is good. Jane has troubleshooting examples for you. When she explains things, it's easy to understand. Like when she compares us with bread, we are both burping to release gas. I laughed. Thank you for sharing Jane!

Homemade Sourdough by Jane Mason is a great book on making sourdough bread at home. The book is full of beautiful and helpful photos, great recipes for different types of sourdough breads and also other uses for sourdough like waffles. This book also includes troubleshooting pages that have ideas for different problems one can have with baking sourdough bread. All in all, this is a great book and a beautiful one, too.

Awesome book! I have baked sourdough bread a few times, and I want to start again. This book is very handy for newbies, but it is as useful for people familiar with sourdough. Absolutely mouthwatering recipes with fabulous pictures. I’ll try many of these. Fingers crossed I’ll make eatable bread. To help with this there are useful tips on how to avoid things going wrong. 

This is a non nonsense book with the essential information you need, and that’s what I want from a book like this. I’ll be using it as a reference book, and will most likely get back to it every time I try to work my magic on sourdough bread. Highly recommended!

Date reviewed/posted: November 13, 2020

When life for the entire universe and planet turns on its end and like everyone else you "have nothing to do" while your place of work is once again closed and you are continuing to be in #COVID19 #socialisolation as the #secondwave is upon us,  superspeed readers like me can read 300+ pages/hour, so yes, I have read the book … and many more today.

I requested and received a temporary digital Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley, the publisher and the author in exchange for an honest review.  

From the publisher, as I do not repeat the contents or story of books in reviews, I let them do it as they do it better than I do 😸.

Start, grow, and bake your own delicious, homemade sourdough bread, with or without commercial yeast!

Homemade Sourdough is the ultimate guide to creating your own sourdough bread. Learn sourdough formulas and recipes and follow along as the author explains the science behind sourdough and provides a guide to the world of starters, wild yeasts, proofing, pre-ferments, and mother-dough. 

You'll find dozens of delicious recipes, not just for bread but for other baked goods, from muffins to pizza crust to chocolate cake. Sourdough rises through the action of lactic acid, so it doesn't require store-bought yeast, but the sourdough starter method works beautifully with either commercial yeast or wild yeast.

Sourdough bread baking is a great skill for a sustainable, self-sufficient lifestyle and provides the added health benefits of being made through fermentation. And if you are interested in lowering your intake of gluten, sourdough preparations can produce lively, tasty loaves with lower amounts of gluten than other methods. 

There is no better way to embrace heritage flavours and time-tested bread-baking techniques than with sourdough. Foodies, farmers, DIYers, and locavores—you will want to devour this book.

With the second wave upon us (and hitting us hard) I have stocked up on flour and yeast and am prepared to bake the winter away. Breadmaking is decidedly an art as you cannot wing it like you can a casserole but the recipes are well written and understandable by bakers of all levels and the photos make the bread very appealing to myself and other carb lovers out there. I personally have found fermented bread to be a bonus to my digestive tract so you might enjoy finding out that benefit yourself - I ate myself from one of Quebec to another from the Acadian bread ovens found there and my stomach did not make a single complaint.

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