Sourdough Baking Guide

A practical guide to starter care, fermentation, timing, troubleshooting, and sourdough recipes—written for home bakers.

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  • Sourdough Cinnamon Raisin Bagels

    Sourdough Cinnamon Raisin Bagels are chewy, crusty and properly dense New York style bagels. They’ve got an extra depth of flavor thanks to the sourdough starter, plump raisins and a good dose of fragrant cinnamon. About this recipe If you carefully follow this recipe you can make a good sourdough cinnamon raisin bagel at home….

  • Coconut Chiffon Cake

    Coconut Chiffon Cake is a tasty riff on the classic American cake. This version is made with unrefined coconut oil, coconut milk and coconut flour for unmistakable coconut flavor. Recipe Development & Testing The starting point for this recipe is my Vanilla Chiffon Cake. Before baking my first test cake I made several changes to…


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