Easy Sourdough Bread

Every sourdough guide seems to add another step: stretch and fold on the hour, a special basket, a heavy lidded pot, a scoring pattern, a stopwatch. If you have ever closed the tab thinking you must be doing it wrong, this book is for you. Easy Sourdough Bread gives you one base loaf and a short routine you can repeat in a normal week: mix, rest, shape, bake. You will learn which steps do real work, which are optional, and how to bake in a loaf pan or open on a tray with no special pot. It is a bread-making routine, not a starter-rescue manual and not a general yeast-bread troubleshooter: it assumes you have a bubbly starter (or can keep a small one going) and focuses on making the whole process simpler. Inside, you'll learn: Which sourdough steps actually matter and which ones you can skip A single base loaf, measured by weight, that you can repeat How to mix with no kneading and little or no folding How to tell when your dough has risen enough, by sight and feel rather than the clock Why the loaf pan method is so forgiving, and how to use it How to bake open on a tray and get good crust without a lidded pot How to read dense crumb, big tunnels and gummy centers, and what to change How to keep a simple bake log so every loaf teaches you something Bake simpler, waste less, and spend your energy enjoying the bread. No fancy gear required.

Imad Muratspahic is an independent author of practical how-to guides, technical handbooks, history and fiction. The books aim to be clear, honest and useful from the first page.