Posts tagged baking
Wild Sourdough Bread

There is something ancient about baking sourdough bread. Such simple and humble ingredients of water, flour and salt coming together. Using my hands to kneed and shape, observing how the ingredients come to life. The moment when it comes out of the oven, freshly baked and still warm. Tearing off that first piece and indulging with a dollop of lightly whipped salted butter ~ that is me happy!

Let’s get wild baking

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Wild Sourdough Babka Buns

Babka or Bobka (grandmother in Polish, related to the Yiddish bubbe) is a sweet braided bread developed in the Jewish community in Poland in the early 19th century. I love mine filled with chocolate cinnamon or poppy seeds made with brioche-like fluffy buttery dough. I use my wild sourdough starter in this recipe, which gives it a another depth of flavour and beautiful complexity in texture which I am after.

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