Today’s batch of Sourdough Bread

Baking your own bread is a bit more work than picking one up from your local bakery. But baking and eating homemade bread is not only rewarding in terms of taste but the baking process in itself is also very recreational. Below is today's sourdough bread batch baked by theScandinavianDad. Well what's left of it after the girls had made their packed lunch that is. Recipe on our all natural...

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Warm walnut bread for breakfast

Having warm freshly baked bread for breakfast is great, and a bread filled with rich tasty walnuts makes it even better. Ever since I grew up, has bread been an important part of the daily meals. In most parts of Scandinavia are the breakfast still considered the most important meal of the day, and families tend to sit down together around the kitchen table to start the day with a few slices of...

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Basic sourdough bread

Baking is something which has always fascinated me, ever since we had cooking lessons in school and when baking christmas cakes at home. Making pizza has always been a favorite and a hit with the girls, while bread making has been more of an occasional habit, until earlier this year when we started making sourdough based bread. It is something more real about bread made without any artificial...

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A beautiful start

I would say that this is a rather decorative sourdough starter. This weekend I made a few sourdough starters, and this is one of them, based on Bramley apple peels. It's about 250 grams of apple peel and 2 liter of water, all resting inside an vintage Norgesglass (in Norwegian). We frequently bake our own bread, but we have always used yeast. This time we are going to try something a bit...

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