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A unique approach to sourdough baking

Anyone can make great sourdough bread. Whether you’re in the middle of a city, or growing your own grain on a homestead, you can make great bread in your home kitchen.

Most baking books show how to make bread in ideal conditions, often with strict timelines, expensive gadgets, hard-to-find ingredients, and waste. Sourdough Without Fail: 100% Whole Grain Bread, Pizza, and Pastries for any Kitchen breaks the boundaries of sourdough baking, showing you how to work with what you have to make great bread in all conditions.

228 pages, 10.75” x 8.25” in size, with full colour photos for every recipe, Sourdough Without Fail is designed to be your faithful companion in the world of sourdough baking.

Sourdough Without Fail starts with a recipe for absolute beginners. If you’ve never made a loaf of bread before, this recipe, complete with step-by-step photos, will guide you towards making a great loaf of bread without being weighed down by theory.

The book then moves on to present everything you would want to know about sourdough baking: how to make and maintain a starter, how to tinker with your starter and recipe to get different flavours and baking timelines, how temperature affects fermentation (and how to work with seasonal conditions), how different grains work in baking, and more.

Sourdough Without Fail is a book that will help you to really understand bread. There’s no need to blindly follow other peoples’ timelines. With the help of this book, you can learn to read the signs of fermentation yourself and develop instincts to know when to move to the next stage of baking without ever looking at a clock.

The recipes

Wheat and spelt breads are covered in depth, along with recipes that work with einkorn, emmer, Khorasan, and other ancient grains. Whether you prefer simple same-day loaves, overnight loaves, or loaves made with sourdough preferment or levain, there’s a loaf here for you.



I’m a big fan of rye breads, and there is a large chapter devoted to rye, from how to use a dash of rye to add depth to a wheat loaf, to very dark 100% rye breads, and everything in between.



Scalding flour is a technique that can help to make an open, soft, flexible crumb, giving better keeping qualities and making great sandwich bread at a very cheap cost. Scalded flour techniques and loaves are covered in detail, from milk-scalded sandwich bread, to Swedish fullkornsbrot, buttery-soft oat porridge bread, easy everyday scalded wheat breads, and golden polenta bread.



Are you a fan of bread with fruits and nuts? You will love this book… There is everything from the perfect cinnamon raisin bread, walnut loaf, and the best ever olive bread, through to an oat and rye loaf with over 50% fruit that is great to pack on your next hike or picnic. Savour the taste of toasted sunflower bread, bittersweet chocolate marble rye, and hazelnut and prune.

I bake sourdough pizza every week, and have shared all my pizza making wisdom in this book, from how to bake great pizza in a home oven, ideas for building an outdoor oven, two ways to easily make and shape whole grain pizza dough, and recipes for doughs that work for several different baking timelines: there is a pizza dough recipe here for everyone!



Also included is the best ever Turkish bread, naan, tortillas, focaccia, and more.

I’ve created several recipes from a variety of gluten-free flours, still with a fuss-free, wholesome, everyday baking approach. Learn how to make great gluten-free sourdough bread without any weird additives. Most of the sourdough discard recipes in the book also have gluten-free options, so you can enjoy gluten-free crackers, cookies, cakes, pies, pancakes, and more.



If you’re looking for the perfect burger bun, this is the book for you. Sink your teeth into the perfect soft-yet-sturdy bun, perfect for homemade burgers and all your favourite toppings.



If you have a sweet tooth, you will not be disappointed. From rustic apple tart, through to Danish pastries, cinnamon buns, doughnuts, and more, there’s a sourdough pastry for everyone.



If you like to just mix up some starter and figure it out the next day, the sourdough discard chapter is sure to please. From the best ever pancakes through to pies, muffins, soda bread, chocolate cake, cookies and more, you’ll find many quick, easy everyday sourdough discard recipes in Sourdough Without Fail.

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Kate,
When you say '100% whole grain', do you mean home ground freshly milled grain?  I desperately want to make a home ground whole wheat sourdough (no purchased yeast) loaf of bread....but all I can manage is beautiful doorstops.
Enjoy!
Carla
 
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carla murphy wrote:Kate,
When you say '100% whole grain', do you mean home ground freshly milled grain?  I desperately want to make a home ground whole wheat sourdough (no purchased yeast) loaf of bread....but all I can manage is beautiful doorstops.
Enjoy!
Carla



Yes! I don't buy in any flour, I mill it all myself, and I never sift it, but use it whole. I have developed the recipes using home-milled wheat, spelt, and rye, and had people testing with Khorasan, emmer, and einkorn too. All the photos are from what I make with home-milled flour.
 
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Heh....just read the book description ALL the way through and found my answer.  Thank you for writing this book.  Can't wait to get it!
 
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And it is funded! Congratulations Kate!
 
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Backed! I enjoyed testing your recipes so much I'm buying books for all my sisters. I'd never done any sourdough baking before, but really enjoyed making tasty bread despite my chilly kitchen tempertures, and the starter discard recipes were great too. Thanks Kate!
 
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Wow! Went out on a walk when it was at 74% funded, feeling positive about things, came back, and it's now 175% funded!

Looks like it got to 100% in about 2 hours, which is a new record for me!

This is so exciting. It's been a bit nervewracking launching this. Thanks to everyone that has backed this, it is a really special book and I'm so excited to be bringing this to print!
 
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Congratulations, Kate!

Well done, and kudos to you!!
 
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Wonderful! Im backing!
 
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I backed it too!

Congratulations Kate!
 
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