Sourdough finds!
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 8:45AM I bought a few new bread cookbooks over the holiday… bread is my passion when it comes to baking. I don’t do much in the way of cookies, cakes, pies… the occasional coffee cake perhaps. I’ve dabbled in sourdoughs, but nothing extensive.
My interest was re-ignited when first I found these wonderful stoneware crocks over at Bennington Potters. I ordered the set of each size, and was tickled pink to find that the large one is the perfect size for my no knead bread dough I always have going… Jim Lahey’s fabulous 3 cup recipe, and the smaller one is exactly right for a batch of sourdough starter! It’s just a bit bigger than a one quart mason jar, and looks so much nicer.
Then in one of the new books, I found a link for a couple of commercial starters that sounded heavenly! I ordered the Italian and the French starters, and can’t wait to try them out!
I am going to bake a coffee cake today… one of my Facebook friends posted a link to a recipe that sounded really terrific… and looked even better!