A practical, step-by-step guide to learning how to create your own sourdough starter and turn it into bread.

This eBook is designed primarily for those who want to get started with natural fermentation but don't know where to begin. Throughout the pages, I will guide you from the first day of creating the sourdough starter to the preparation, fermentation, shaping, and baking of the bread.

You will learn to understand the signals from the dough, to recognize when the yeast is active, to perform the different folds, to control fermentation, and to identify what might have gone wrong when the result is not as expected.

More than following rigid schedules, the goal is for you to learn to understand your dough and gain the confidence to bake bread at home.

What you will find in this eBook:

Part 1 — Before you begin: What is sourdough starter, how does it work, flours, water, temperature, necessary materials, and the main concepts before you start.

Part 2 — Creating Sourdough Starter from Scratch: A step-by-step guide from Day 1, including feeding, discarding, starter development, differences between summer and winter, how to know when it's ready, and how to store it.

Part 3 — The Stretch & Fold and Coil Fold techniques explained step by step, with illustrations, showing when to use each technique and how to tell if the dough has gained structure.

Part 4 — The bread-making process: Mixing, resting, dough fermentation, pre-forming, shaping, cold fermentation, cutting, baking on a steaming stone or in a pot, and cooling.

Part 5 — 6 recipes

• Classic Bread

• Semi-Whole Wheat Bread

• Seed Bread

• Walnut and Honey Bread

• Sliced Bread

• Cheese bread and jalapeños

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Part 6 — When something goes wrong A guide to understanding some of the most common problems: flat bread, dough that spreads, compact or moist crumb, dough that is too sticky, sourdough starter that doesn't double, problems with cutting and fermentation.

An eBook designed to be consulted many times, especially during the first few batches, until what initially seems complicated becomes part of your routine.

From yeast to bread, one step at a time.

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