River Cottage Sourdough Recipe

31st march 2011 i ve posted an update with some lessons observations since this was published.
River cottage sourdough recipe. This best ever sourdough recipe by the team at river cottage australia is the only one you need. Over a packed hands on day we ll be making a range of breads covering everything from holey delicious country loaves to soft tin loaves and loads in between. Wild yeast is all around us the joy of foraging into flour and water to create your natural starter can be a life long journey. Try your hand at one of our favourite recipes below or joins us for one of our popular baking courses at our award winning river cottage cookery school.
Head chef andy tyrrell shares his favourite sourdough recipe for realbreadweek. Time to dust off those aprons and roll your sleeves up for a spot of baking. Looked after correctly your starter will provide you with the fantastic reward of your own sourdough loaves for years to come. Day 1 to start the whole thing off.
Nowadays we understand so much more about how these bacteria and yeasts work in harmony to. Make it with wholegrain flour and keep it warm in your kitchen and you should see signs of life within 24 hours. Naomi devlin our nutrition expert calls this cheaty sourdough because it uses the bacteria in yogurt or acid in lemon juice to do the work of friendly bacteria that occur naturally in a sourdough starter. Baking baking on a sunday afternoon is one of life s great pleasures.
Paul west teaches you how to make authentic sourdough with this tried and tested bread recipe. Yogurt gives the bread a more savoury flavour and that slight sourness i find so satisfying in a loaf. The recipe and technique is an amalgam of hugh fearnley wittingstall river cottage everyday dan lepard the handmade loaf plus some other stuff i ve read online and my own experience stop press. Sourdough is the most traditional way to make bread harnessing the power of wild yeasts to raise our loaves.
Hugh fearnley whittingstall s sourdough starter recipe.