Recent content by amuenzberg

i recommend the book "Nancy Silverton's Breads From The La Brea Bakery" it has a lot of good info on making your own starter. i used to keep mine in the fridge, but i found that i does better when left out on the counter. i feed it twice a day, but throw some out each time so it doesn't take...

here's the pictures. it is entirely possible that the oven temperature was not high enough. it is a new oven and this is the first bread i've baked in it.

I recently aquired a sourdough starter and is has been doing well. Yesterday I baked my first loaves with it and something odd happened to the crust. When I pulled the bread from the oven, the crust was pale and very hard, but only on top. The bottom quater of the loaf was perfectly brown and...