The Ultimate Guide to Sourdough Baking and Cooking

How would you describe your cooking abilities on a ten-point scale? This course is perfect for you if you want to level up your culinary skills and start producing delicious baked goods and well-known gourmet meals or merely want to experiment with new recipes. You'll start by mixing flour and water to make your sourdough starter, utilised in all the recipes to provide fermented flavours and soft textures.

Then you'll discover the secrets behind making amazing bagels, sourdough bread, rye bread, rustic baguettes and croissants. You will learn what ‘autolysing’ is and why developing gluten into the dough before shaping and baking your bagels, bread, or croissants is critical. We will also discuss the ingredients and procedures for creating ideal baked goods.

Next, the course provides the recipes and easy to follow guidelines for preparing delicious sourdough meals, such as sourdough pizza, tortilla burritos, artisan hot dogs, gourmet burgers, and sourdough sandwich bread for BLTs and handmade pasta. You will learn how to bake your pizza in a cast iron pan, make your tangzhong for crowning the burgers and prepare a memorable chicken alfredo dish for a special supper for two.