It teaches you sourdough

It explains when you need it, and raises your first starter with you.

The Library: shelves of short pieces on flour, fermentation and what goes wrong.

The Library

When a loaf goes wrong, it opens at the right page.

Eighty-four short pieces on eighteen shelves: why dough rises, what salt does, which myths hold up when tested.

A Library entry, open: a short piece explaining one thing about sourdough.

Seventeen of the pieces are here to read: the myths, tested, the loaves that went wrong, and why timing changes.

Read the Library

Starter School

From flour and water to a living starter.

It walks you through the first days one at a time, and it reads the jar, not the calendar. That includes the day it goes quiet, when most people give up.

Starter School: today's lesson, with the pupil jar in its school cap.

And along the way

  • A report cardThe pupil gets marks, and a diploma when it graduates.
  • Myths, testedA shelf for the things everybody says.
  • When it goes wrongDense crumb, flat loaf, sour beyond reason: what happened and why.
  • Flour, in gramsHow much water each flour wants.
  • Ovens and toolsWhat you need, and what you can do without.
  • Bookmarks and searchKeep the pieces you come back to.

Your starter is waiting

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